Scripps Clinic Selects Challenger Program for Residencies™

Business Wire,  April 28, 2008  

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Memphis-based medical training and education firm, Challenger Corporation, announced today its selection by the Medicine Residency at Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, CA for provision of residency training and performance evaluation services. Joel C. Diamant, MD, FACP, is the Residency Director for Medicine at Scripps and also serves as Head of the Division of Hospital Medicine there. The Department currently trains sixteen residents and will deploy the Challenger Program for Residencies[TM] for supplementary training, remediation, and measurement of training effectiveness.

According to Becca Sweeney Franklin, Challenger's Vice President, Institutional Relations, "Scripps Health is a national and regional leader in quality of care. In collaboration with Dr. Diamant and his faculty and staff colleagues, we'll endeavor to develop a template for effective training and evaluation by similar programs. The objective with this project is to both provide high-quality curricular and assessment content to the Scripps residents and to make it possible for the program to validate outcomes and educational gains by their users. Our tools for residencies and training programs include customizable and consistently updated content along with reporting features and statistical data that is not available in other venues."

Scripps Health has a long history in San Diego, dating back to 1924 when Ellen Browning Scripps founded Scripps Memorial Hospital and Scripps Metabolic Clinic in La Jolla. Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego's oldest hospital, was founded in 1890 and joined the Scripps Health system in 1995. Scripps Clinic affiliated with Scripps Health in 2000. The combined system delivers care from four acute-care hospitals on five campuses, through the professional services of more than 2,300 affiliated physicians. The system also provides an extensive ambulatory care network, home health care and associated support services, with approximately 11,000 employees, and also cares for patients at 13 clinic locations throughout San Diego County. Scripps Health is a nationally recognized center of excellence in several branches of medicine.

Dr. Diamant, a graduate of the medical school at the University of Illinois, completed his residency at Scripps Clinic Research Foundation in 1994, where he served as Chief Resident. In addition to his other duties, he manages an ambulatory care practice focused on hospital-based medicine as well. The Medicine residency program offers candidates a variety of challenging clinical problems drawn from several thousand annual admissions to the hospital with a relatively high acuity level. A major strength of the program is the combination of variety, acuity, and high turnover in the served patient population.

Challenger owns the world's largest collection of approved electronic CME media, comprising over 3,800 approved hours of credit. Thousands of American physicians and other clinicians rely upon Challenger materials to prepare for specialty board exams, recertification, maintenance of certification, and lifelong learning. Challenger serves the educational and training needs of over 400,000 practicing American primary care and hospital-based physicians and nearly 70,000 physician assistants. Challenger products are approved for physician CME credit through joint sponsorships with eight medical schools and specialty societies. They are also used for institutional training in over seventy-five major residency and physician assistant training programs across the United States.

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