Monday, July 21, 2014

“A Curious Soul”




Philadelphia’s Derek Warnick Continually Reinvents His Role


A Profile for MAACME Members
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Derek Warnick
Some colleagues who know him well describe Derek Warnick as a curious and witty introvert; others consider him a brave individual who embraces new ideas, his family, and good baseball. Now in his final week as grants manager for the continuing education office of Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Warnick coordinates the submission of proposals for commercial support across a broad range of therapeutic areas. Warnick has been working at Penn State more than two years, after being laid off from a medical education company in Exton. He starts a new job with a different employer on July 28.



“He is a curious soul,” says Brian McGowan, PhD, chief learning officer and co-founder at ArcheMedX Inc, an e-learning technology company based in Charlottesville, Virginia. “I love the man. I learn so much from him. I have an unbelievable amount of respect from afar, watching what he’s doing.”



Thursday, July 3, 2014

Not for the Fainthearted

Graphic courtesy Intelligent Medical Decisions Inc., Media, PA
Performance improvement continuing medical education (PI-CME) is the newest, most complicated, and most expensive form of CME.  Here's a guide for medical writers who want to learn more, courtesy of the American Medical Writers Association.