Indegene Lifesystems Ties Up With Johns Hopkins

EHM News Bureau

Indegene Lifesystems has tied up with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for organising a variety of Continuing Medical Education (CME) programmes across Asia and parts of Africa.

A provider of medical and scientific marketing services to practicing physicians and the pharmaceutical industry will now have the exclusive rights to market and distribute enduring CME programmes that belong to Johns Hopkins. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, its Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins Hospital are recognised worldwide as pre-eminent centres of excellence in the field of medicine and research.

According to Dr Sanjay Parikh, Director, Indegene Lifesystems, “This is a three-year relationship, during which Indegene will organise seminars and meetings in India and other countries on the latest development in medical research and clinical practice addressed by faculty from Johns Hopkins.”

The programmes will be available online and on CD ROMs. Also, video-conferences with leading experts would be organised for the benefit of Indian doctors. “This would keep doctors abreast of the latest developments happening in the world of medicine,” informed Dr Parikh.

This association will help bring international perspective to the CME programmes that medical practioners will surely find useful. The programmes would be targeted at general practitioners as well as experts in various fields.

The alliance comes when medical associations including Medical Council of India are also pushing the Indian Government to make CMEs mandatory for registered medical practitioners. The Health and Family Welfare Ministry is considering introduction of a five-yearly revalidation and reregistration programme for doctors subject to CME attendance.