Graduate Education Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of an article on the effectiveness of online CME programs. In a study conducted by the Office of Health Policy at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine, funded by a non-restricted grant from the Philadelphia Health Care Trust, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to examine the potential for two online continuing medical education seminars (Type 2 Diabetes and Systolic Heart Failure) to improve the quality of care provided by physicians. These results provide partial evidence of the effectiveness of online CME programs to improve physician clinical practices. The study was conducted by and the article written by Christine Weston, PhD Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland; Christopher Sciamanna, MD MPH Division of General Internal Medicine, Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania; and David Nash, MD MBA Department of Health Policy, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The article appeared in the November/December 2008 issue of American Journal of Medical Quality, Vol. 23, No. 6. To access this article, click here