Mount Sinai School of Medicine Announces The Overwhelming Success of Their Educational Technology Department and a Record Year for Their Distance Learning Program.

New York, NY January 20 2004--Mount Sinai School of Medicine Announces The Overwhelming Success of Their Educational Technology Department and a Record Year for Their Distance Learning Program.

New York, January 20 2004 - Mount Sinai School of Medicine today announces the overwhelming success of MSSMTV, Mount Sinai School of Medicine's interactive distance learning program for continuing medical education. MSSMTV is Mount Sinai's Educational Technology Department and Distance Learning Program and it partners with Fifth Floor Effects (5FX) to develop and provide their services to other schools as well.

"We have had a 200% growth in the last six months alone, resulting in over 60,000 unique visitors viewing over 400,000 pages. Over 4,500 medical professionals have registered for free access to our vast library of CME content. Our success is based upon great partnerships, creating cutting edge content and offering a level of interactivity that we believe produces a positive educational experience for all" says Frederick S. Bobrow, Director of Educational Technology for Mount Sinai.

There are currently 490 lectures, totaling 228.5 course hours and yielding 55.5 on-line CME credit hours on MSSMTV's website, www.mssmtv.org. Current product developments include: On-line version of HIPAA mandated compliance program, electronic registration and certificate issuance system called CME-outreach and iARC, their revolutionary new portable interactive storage device. "Our mandate to continue to provide relevant and diverse web based CME to physicians and other health care providers drives us to develop and integrate new technologies for enduring electronic media. ‘Technology Serving Healthcare' is not just a slogan at MSSMTV, it's who and what we are" says Paul Frantellizzi, Director of Sales and Marketing for MSSMTV.

About MSSMTV   
MSSMTV is the Mount Sinai School of Medicine's interactive distance learning program for continuing medical education. It encompasses live and archived streaming broad and narrowband video content, interactive on line quizzes and surveys; topic specific discussion forums, private and public e-mailing and a repository for all CME content. Within their mission to repurpose previously transitory CME events, MSSMTV presents these programs on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day, and seven days a week. Mount Sinai currently produces over 200 hours of accredited medical grand rounds, over 168 hours of nursing education CEU's and dozens of major symposiums and workshops for live exhibition. We are actively disseminating and reproducing these programs utilizing the Internet and CD ROM to create what may be the most prolific media rich CME resource available to health care providers worldwide. In addition to hosting a wealth of high quality content, is Mount Sinai's experience as the most technologically advanced multimedia production service in medical education. Featuring a network level production facility; corporate level programmers, award-winning technology architects and industry leading event producers, MSSMTV surpasses the academic standard. 5FX (Fifth Floor Effects) is Mount Sinai School of Medicine's award winning technology and multimedia development team providing Web and Multimedia Based CME solutions for enterprises who want to automate and streamline their CME delivery and user evaluation / testing process using Internet technology. 5FX offers customizable solutions for every aspect of event and media production and distribution, while maintaining a full range of equipment and software for all formats. The following is a small sample of services provided:

• CME Web development, online testing, and automated certificate fulfillment.
• Capturing, editing and archiving all live or scripted content.
• Hosting, duplicating, and distribution via Internet; as well as CD, DVD, VHS, Audio CD, and more…
• Web Based Design, web based (flash) promotions.
• Live multimedia staging, script writing, AV preparation and graphic design.





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