Editorial board editor-in-chief

Pharmacists continuing education with use 
of e-learning approach
Distance learning is wide spread and well developed in large 
countries like USA, Canada or Australia.There are already a lot 
of e-learning platforms for pharmacists providing continuing 
education in the Internet. In the United States Post-graduate 
Healthcare Education (PHE) provides Power-Pak C.E.® educa
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tional programs for the broad spectrum of healthcare professions. 
Professional medical and pharmaceutical education constitutes 
PHE’s core activity. This mission is achieved through the com
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pany’s ongoing continuing education activities. The primary goal 
of all continuing education programs is to provide, promote, 
and disseminate topical education to all medical personnel and 
pharmacists in order to maintain and improve their knowledge 
and skill. To participate in Power-Pak C.E.® online courses, 
a user needs to read the course he is interested in and submit 
his answers to the questions. Participants receive instantaneous 
grading of their exam. Upon successful completion of an exam 
(a score of 70% or higher), a certiicate is generated automatically. 
Power-Pak C.E.® online customizes its website for each visitor 
by creating a personal participant proile. Registered participants 
may update their contact information, take an exam, receive 
instant grading, view their exam history, and print certiicates for 
successfully completed programs at any time. Monthly notiica
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tions are sent to users notifying them of new courses available 
on the site [9]. Courses are granted with Continuing Education 
credits accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy 
Education. All the online courses are stored on the web site: 
www.powerpak.com. 
RxSchool is a unique e-learning solutions company that 
successfully connects healthcare professionals with leading 
providers of educational content. Powered by the RxSchool 
Learning Management System, this web site hosts one of the 
largest libraries of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Edu-
cation accredited continuing education on the Internet. Many of 
the courses available here are free of charge thanks to the col-
laborative efforts of “RxSchool Powered” providers, educational 
institutions, employers, associations and pharmaceutical industry 
sponsors. The courses can be found on the site: www.rxschool.
com. RxSchool offers also Live Internet education available 
through the popular RxSchool Live seminar room. Its leading 
Internet delivery solution provides healthcare professionals with 
a convenient way to get quality live education that qualiies for 
live CE credit [10].
Another popular e-learning portal for healthcare profes-
sionnnals is Free CE. Since 1996 Free CE has been giving 
access to free, quality based, continuing education. A lot of live 
webinars/web casts and self study monographs are provided 
by this platform. Free CE is a subsidiary of PharmCon, Inc, the 
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education approved provider 
of continuing education. PharmCon specializes in the accredita
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tion and coordination of live continuing education programs [11].