The Virtual Lecture Hall (VLH.com) offers online CME programs to meet medical (physician) licensing requirements for communication, professionalism, and systems-based care.

These special licensing requirements include topics such as: medical errors prevention, medical ethics, risk management, patient safety, professional responsibility, cultural competency, pain management, infectious diseases (including HIV/AIDS), infection control, domestic violence, sexual assault, palliative medicine, end-of-life care, and universal precautions.

Our online CME programs meet almost all special state CME requirements:

• We have a national focus.
• We work closely with state regulators to monitor and comply with requirements.
• We are continuously expanding our course library.

Our online CME courses are enjoyable:

• We emphasize interactive, self-paced learning.
• See how physicians rate and comment on our courses.
• We have been successfully developing online CME since 1997.

Our site is convenient:

• Everything is online and available 24/7.
• We keep track of your progress. You can start and stop when you wish.
• Specialty training is not necessary to participate in any program.
• The courses will help you easily meet CME needs in topics related to communication, professionalism, and systems-based care.

Our CME programs are high quality:

• We use an evidence-based approach.
• All courses are reviewed and sponsored for CME credit by academic centers and professional societies.
• The site is physician owned and supported by its subscribers.
• All evaluations and comments are always available.
• Our staff regularly publishes in the educational research literature.

VLH.com began providing online CME courses in May 1998. To date, physicians and other health professionals have earned 233,062 hours of CME credit at VLH.com.

The Virtual Lecture Hall is owned by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of The University of Arizona, for its College of Medicine-Tucson. The site does not accept advertisements and is supported primarily by fees from individual users and organizations that purchase site memberships. Some of our course development is supported by grants from federal agencies or health care organizations. VLH.com does not offer CME courses supported by educational grants from pharmaceutical or device companies.

The Virtual Lecture Hall is committed to improving medical education. We believe that truly interactive online education that is based on sound educational principles can be enjoyable and effective.

Our faculty have published studies demonstrating that well-developed, problem-oriented online CME can improve physician knowledge, attitudes, and skills in such diverse areas as cancer prevention and domestic violence. We have also shown that online CME developed in the US can directly benefit physicians in another country (the United Kingdom). We invite you to learn more about this work by viewing the abstracts below.

Available Articles

The University of Arizona College of Medicine can work with your professional organization to provide unbiased, state-of-the-art online educational programs for physicians, physicians in training, and other health professionals. If you would like to offer The Virtual Lecture Hall's programs, please contact us for further information. We can:

• Create a customized Internet gateway for your users, including your logo and your preferred welcome message.
• Feature particular courses or programs on your users' VLH.com homepages.
• Provide access to 24/7 online reports to gather data about your group's usage of the site.
• Offer discounts for group purchases. (Please contact us for details using the form below.)

Benefits of Offering VLH.com Programs

Online CME from VLH.com provides many benefits to your organization:

• Enhanced physician relationships – You are helping your physicians keep on top of their increasingly complex CME requirements.
• Improved clinician knowledge and decision-making – Our programs have been shown in published studies to improve educational outcomes (Learn more).
• Cost-Effectiveness – CME at VLH.com costs only $25/credit and, depending on the approach you choose, you or your users can receive discounts based on your size.
• Enjoyable Learning – All VLH.com courses are interactive and easy to use. We encourage you to click on any course to see how physicians have rated their VLH.com learning experience.

Please call or email to request an invoice for a group account. We can take payments for group invoices by check or online via credit card.

The Virtual Lecture Hall^® works with medical educators to market their online CME programs to practicing physicians. We set a new standard for CME by offering high-quality, cost-effective educational programs that are free from commercial influence.

VLH.com has provided high quality, commercial-free online CME to thousands of physicians since 1998. If you have an online CME program, we can discuss marketing it to our subscribers and sharing revenue with you.

Requirements for Virtual Lecture Hall CME

Programs on The Virtual Lecture Hall:

1. Are developed independently. They are not supported by grants from industry.
2. Present interactive, evidence-based, online medical education.
3. Are sponsored for CME credit by are sponsored for CME credit by an ACCME-accredited medical school.
4. Meet the educational needs of Virtual Lecture Hall users.

Experience in Marketing and Distributing Online CME
VLH.com works with a number of academic CME offices, so we know how to help you comply with ever-changing ACCME requirements and standards. We have full and secure e-commerce capabilities.

Pricing
We will usually host your online CME programs on our server, but we can also link to them on your server. Our royalty arrangements depend on the amount of work required to present the CME program and whether we are the sole distributors of your program, in addition to any 1st party sites you may operate.

For more information, please contact us at 800-874-2849 or send an email to inquiry@vlh.com.