The ASET CEU Committee is responsible for reviewing and
approving all ASET CEU applications submitted prior to awarding CEUs to any
educational event or resource covering neurodiagnostic topics. They are kept rather busy with all of the
requests that come in: regional society
meetings, national meetings, hospital-based weekly or monthly record reviews,
and webinars.
Recently we have noticed a trend, as we are seeing more
requests for CEUs for on-line courses developed by various providers. Reviewing on-line courses presents a unique
challenge. With more traditional
educational events, contact hours are easy to calculate: 1 hour of lecture time
= 1 CEU! You can go by the clock for
start and finish time of each lecture in a meeting program.
On-line courses do not have a specific start and end
time. So how do we determine contact
hours? The reading materials in an
on-line course lesson may take one person 30 minutes to read and comprehend and
take another person 60 minutes! Factors
that may affect time spent on a lesson include familiarity with the topic,
overall reading skills and study habits.
A technologist who is a CNIM with years of experience in the O.R. may
breeze through an on-line IONM course to obtain CEUs. A technologist just starting to work in the
O.R. will likely be unfamiliar with the topics covered and spend much more time
on lessons.
This brings me to the new policy that the ASET CEU committee
has established for the review of on-line courses submitted to us for ASET CEU
approval. We are going to develop a list
of course reviewers to cover all areas of neurodiagnostics. When an on-line course covering a specific
modality comes in, we will contact the appropriate volunteer from that list to
do a course review. The provider of that
course will be required to open that course to the designated reviewer. The reviewer will go through all lessons,
learning activities, quizzes and exams in that course while keeping a log of
time it takes to complete these activities, and will report the results to the
ASET CEU committee. Determination of the
contact hours will be based on this unbiased, third-party assessment.
We will award the course reviewer 5 ASET CEUs for completing
the review, regardless of the number of CEUs calculated, since the review of
the course can be considered an educational opportunity.
It is important to note that once assigned a course, we will
require that the course review begin promptly and that you are able to report
your findings within a month in order to fulfill our obligation to reply to the
applicant in a reasonable time frame.
If you would like to be included on a list of course
reviewers, please contact me at faye@aset.org
and I will send you a short form to fill out which will provide basic
information so that we can include you on a list. I will also be glad to answer any questions
you may have.
