About CECentral.com

Maintained and administered by the University of Kentucky Pharmacy and Medicine Continuing Education Office, CECentral.com is a full-service continuing education solution for healthcare professionals seeking a convenient source of quality accredited continuing healthcare education activities. The website offers activities across a wide-range of therapeutic areas - 29 in total - with emphasis placed on those areas most pertinent to the current landscape of healthcare delivery. All activities are accredited for either continuing medical education (CME), continuing pharmacy education (CPE) and/or continuing nursing education (CNE) credit.

CECentral's Mission

• To provide healthcare professionals with timely and relevant clinical information to improve patient care;
• To centralize on the Internet information that enhances professional competencies; and
• To utilize the latest Internet-based technologies to create a better learning experience for healthcare professionals

Features

• Activities available in multiple formats (PDF, webcast, case study) with additional formats launching in 2008
• Full transcript functionality - view a certficate for any activity you've completed at a later time
• Ability to add CE credits from external sources
• Activity bookmarking - save an activity for viewing later
• Indexed faculty members - search for activities by faculty name
• RSS feeds - allows for more streamlined browsing of CECentral content
• Activity ratings - share with other CECentral members your thoughts on a particular activity

CECentral Navigation

CECentral features a main page and 29 specialty channels, with a consistent look and feel throughout. Each specialty channel looks like the main page of CECentral with the key difference being that all content on the channel - CE, news and calendar of events - relates to that particular specialty. When a visitor registers a free account and becomes a member, he/she has the option of selecting a specialty channel or the main page as their default home page. Wherever you are on CECentral, clicking the "Home" link in the blue navigation bar at the top takes you to your default home page and clicking the CECentral logo in the upper left corner takes you to the main page.

If you have any suggestions on how we can make your experience at CECentral.com better, please don’t hesitate to use our feedback feature and tell us about them.

About the UK Pharmacy and Medicine Continuing Education Office

The UK Pharmacy and Medicine Continuing Education (PMCE) Office is a joint venture between the UK Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine to manage the CE programs of each respective college. The College of Medicine is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) and the College of Pharmacy is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education (CPE).

In accordance with the University of Kentucky's education, research, and service missions, the Colleges of Pharmacy and Medicine Continuing Education program delivers quality educational activities responsive to advances in medicine, pharmacotherapy, and patient care with an emphasis on improving patient and population health in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The program offers pharmacists, physicians, and other healthcare professionals worldwide an opportunity to maintain and enhance their professional competencies in medicine and medication use through interactive live activities and enduring materials.

About the University of Kentucky

Located in Lexington, the University of Kentucky is the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s flagship institution of higher education. As a land grant institution, the University is dedicated to enriching people’s lives through excellence in teaching, research and service and plays a critical leadership role for the state by promoting human and economic development that improves lives within Kentucky’s borders and beyond.

The University consists of 16 colleges, plus the Graduate School. With 93 undergraduate programs, master’s degrees in 99 fields, doctoral degrees in 66 programs, and four professional programs, the colleges include: Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Business and Economics, Communications and Information Studies, Dentistry, Design, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Health Sciences, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health, and Social Work. The University boasts more than 80 national rankings for academic excellence. Total enrollment is nearly 27,000 students, representing all Kentucky counties, every state in the nation, and 117 countries. In 2004 - 2005, the University conferred 6,272 degrees among its comprehensive academic programs. About 1,900 full-time faculty and 9,000 fulltime staff are employed by the University.

The UK Chandler Medical Center, which opened in 1960, is considered one of the nation’s finest academic medical centers. The faculty, students and staff take pride in achieving excellence in education, patient care, research, and community service. As one of two Level 1 Trauma Centers in the state and the first healthcare facility in Central and Eastern Kentucky to obtain distinction as a Primary Stroke Center, UK Hospital cares for the most critically injured and ill patients in the region. The 473-bed UK Hospital and UK Children’s Hospital are supported by more than 500 faculty physicians and dentists, 400 resident physicians, and a staff of 3,200 health professionals committed to high-quality patient care.