General Information

The Institute for Medical and Nursing Education (IMNE) is the continuing education provider unit of International Medical Press. IMNE achieved its initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) in July 2005. Currently in our reaccreditation cycle, IMNE expects to achieve full accreditation status in July of 2007. IMNE is also accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Committee on Accreditation (ANCC).

IMNE delivers CME and CNE activities in a variety of formats, covering a wide spectrum of therapeutic areas.

IMNE is committed to excellence in providing continuing education activities and works to ensure that all activities are independent, objective, scientifically rigorous, and fair balanced.

Mission Statement

The mission of the Institute for Medical and Nursing Education’s (IMNE) Continuing Education Program is to develop superior continuing education activities that provide the practicing healthcare professional with the information, techniques, and modalities to improve patient care and prevent disease

These activities are developed for a wide range of individual or multidisciplinary audiences (including physicians,, nurses, and other health care professionals), based upon identified educational needs. All activities are developed in an independent manner and assure scientific rigor, fair-balance, and medical accuracy.

IMNE educational activities focus on disease states and therapeutic regimens in areas including, but not limited to endocrinology, rheumatology, and those areas of benefit to primary care practitioners. Content is delivered using a wide variety of program formats, including: live symposia, print, CD-ROM, audioconference, and Internet-based in order to meet the individual learning preferences of the targeted audience(s). It is expected that participating healthcare professionals will gain new knowledge that can be applied clinically toward improving practice and enhancing patient care. Post-activity evaluations as well as short- and long-term surveys determine the educational usefulness of educational activities and collect educational needs data.

Excellence In Continuing Education

IMNE staff are not only CME administrators, we’re educators first and foremost.  As such our staff maintains a level of expertise in CME and CE by attending regulatory and industry meetings as participants and presenters.

• Presentations at national meetings
  • Alliance for CME (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005)
  • AMA Task Force on Provider/Industry Collaboration (2001, 2002, 2004)

• Participates in the Alliance for CME Mentoring Program

• Attendance at ANCC-sponsored workshops

• Outcomes measurement process sought for publication in CME industry journal
  
  
• CME 101 workshop presented by our staff to our educational partners as well as supporters.