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Web Site offers non-pharmaceutical-sponsored CME

Hospitalist Leadership Connection, January 31, 2007

Staff members at Georgetown University School of Medicine launched a Web site called PharmedOut (www.pharmedout.org) that offers free continuing medical education (CME) programs for physicians seeking alternatives to pharmaceutical company-sponsored CME, accroding to an article in the January 23 Washington Post.

The site, which boasts more than 200 online CME classes, is funded by a $21 million grant from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program, which aims to teach healthcare practitioners to better evaluate pharmaceutical companies' data about prescription drugs, the Post reports.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes for Health are among the federal agencies that sponsor the classes available on the site.

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