BALTIMORE, Md—March 4, 2010—Med-IQ and the Emergency Medicine Cardiac Research and Education Group (EMCREG-International) are pleased to announce a three-year partnership to collaborate on the development of high quality CME activities for emergency medicine physicians.

EMCREG-International’s leadership and network of academic clinical investigators, combined with Med-IQ’s sophisticated outcomes-based educational designs, will enable the pair to deliver distinctive medical education to emergency medicine physicians worldwide.

“Partnering with Med-IQ allows EMCREG-International to fulfill its mission to utilize the most innovative approaches to educational presentations, including symposia, enduring materials, Web-based formats, and other evolving approaches to transmit current medical information,” said W. Brian Gibler, MD, FACEP, FAHA, President of EMCREG-International.

Dr. Gibler also serves as Richard C. Levy Professor and Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at University of Cincinnati College of Medicine; Director of the Center for Emergency Care at University Hospital, and President of UC Emergency Physicians, Inc.

Med-IQ is a leader in the development of cutting-edge, certified performance improvement (PI) and quality improvement (QI) CME initiatives. EMCREG-International is an independent network of academic clinical investigators dedicated to providing practicing emergency physicians extensive exposure to important issues in the specialty of emergency medicine.

Under the partnership agreement, Med-IQ and EMCREG-International will collaborate on all emergency medicine CME/CE activities that either organization plans during the next three years.

“We recognize that there are many areas where education can help close the practice gaps that exist in emergency medicine, and this collaboration allows both organizations to serve as the premier source of CME, effectively providing emergency department physicians with the critical information that they need to improve patient care in this environment,” said Scott E. Weber, co-CEO of Med-IQ.

About Med-IQ

Med-IQ, America's most respected continuing medical education (CME) company, is an accredited provider of CME that educates and inspires healthcare professionals through programs that deliver sophisticated outcomes-based educational designs with measurable results in professional competence and performance. Med-IQ is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the California Board of Registered Nursing (CBRN), and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing medical education to physicians, nurses, and pharmacists, respectively. We are a leader in the development of performance improvement (PI) and quality improvement (QI) CME initiatives. To learn more about us, visit www.Med-IQ.com.

About EMCREG-International

EMCREG-International has been in existence since 1989 as a research and educational organization (www.emcreg.org).  EMCREG-International is an independent international network of academic emergency physician clinical investigators and educators dedicated to research and education in emergency cardiac and neurovascular care and to providing the practicing emergency physician extensive exposure to important issues in the specialty of emergency medicine.

The Mission of EMCREG-International is to provide up-to-date, evidence based, and clinically useful educational materials to healthcare providers involved in the care of emergency conditions. This organization takes great pride and extends extraordinary effort to provide educational materials free of commercial bias. While these educational endeavors are sponsored in part by industry, speaker or contributor influence or bias is carefully reviewed and strictly prohibited. For more information, visit www.emcreg.org.

For more information, contact:

Catherine B. Mullaney, MHA
Vice President, Audience Development
and Educational Outcomes
Med-IQ
443 543 5154
info@med-iq.com