Program for Residencies Testimonials

Residencies have the task of not only educating residents, but documenting each resident's progress toward competency. The Challenger Program for Residencies is one of the few tools of which I am aware that helps me do both at once. Not only can residents review topics and self-assess their knowledge any time and any place, but as the program director, I have easy access to reports that show me which components each resident has completed. We now have required readings tied to each of our rotations and finally have a tool to monitor our residents' progress. I highly recommend it to all residency programs.

David Bauer, MD
Program Director
Memorial Family Medicine Residency
Memorial Hermann Hospital System
Houston, TX

The extensive library of visual and written resources provided by Challenger will provide our Emergency Medicine Residents and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellows with the hi-tech tools essential for maximizing their educational opportunities. The program will help our residents develop the lifelong learning skills and disciplines needed to succeed in our profession.

Mark McIntosh, MD
Director of Medical Education
Emergency Medicine Residency
University of Florida
Jacksonville, FL

Challenger gives each resident a shared target, provides current state-of-the-art knowledge, and even allows residents to critique questions or suggest better wording if they disagree with a question or answer. I believe having a dynamic product for residents, whose very nature is to question, promotes much better buy-in to this product and learning technique.

Keith Wrenn, MD
Program Director
Emergency Medicine Residency
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

We require our interns to complete the case-based chest radiology component of the Challenger series. It's an excellent product that teaches them the systematic reading of chest films. We use it to satisfy the ABIM requirement for competency in this area. The ability to track online a resident's progress toward completion is quite valuable.

Donna Astiz, MD
Residency Program Director
Department of Medicine
Morristown Memorial Hospital
Morristown, NJ

I think a major advantage of Challenger is that it provides a guide to work through the ever increasing knowledge base we expect our residents to master. By having a Web-based tool, our residents can study at home or while on some services that may have some low intensity times where patient care is not required.

Corey Slovis, MD
Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Southern Regional AHEC has been using the Challenger Program for Residencies for the past two years. When we found that our residents could not receive the required radiology training from local area radiologists, we had to look at an alternative training method. After reviewing the Challenger Program for Residencies we selected their Rad-Challenger Acute Care Radiology Series to enhance this training. The online self-paced program allows residents to work at their own pace, and the reporting tools allow faculty to view the progress their residents are making. Completion of the entire Acute Care Radiology Series is now a requirement for our second year residents. This program can be used by any residency that would like to enhance or strengthen their radiology training.

Carl Keiper, MLS
Clinical Information Manager
Southern Regional AHEC
Fayetteville, NC