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 News for $MJNA  - (Medical Marijuana Education for Doctors is New Focus on TheAnswerPage.com) 
 
	 
 
 
 
BOSTON, April 9, 2013   /  PRNewswire via COMTEX /     -- Medical marijuana is legal in 
 
18 states and now will be studied worldwide by physicians and other healthcare 
 
professionals on the medical education website, TheAnswerPage.com. 
 
 
 
"Medical marijuana may be controversial, but it is an important area of study in 
 
healthcare," says Stephen B. Corn, MD, Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of 
 
TheAnswerPage. Corn is a clinician, professor and an award-winning, prolific 
 
inventor. "Doctors and healthcare professionals must understand the medical, 
 
legal, social and political issues to best respond to their patients' questions 
 
and attend to their needs." 
 
 
 
Medical professionals visit TheAnswerPage.com daily to learn the latest medical 
 
information and earn continuing medical education (CME) credit. Educational 
 
areas on the site include opioid prescribing, pain medicine, palliative care, 
 
risk management, anesthesiology, perioperative and hospital medicine, clinical 
 
statistics, and medical marijuana. 
 
 
 
The Massachusetts Medical Society accredits all educational content on the site. 
 
 
 
The website's medical marijuana "lecture series" begins with a primer week about 
 
the plant, the five most studied cannabinoids and an explanation of the 
 
endocannabinoid system. In later weeks, medical and legal issues are addressed, 
 
including state and federal marijuana laws. Information is provided on the FDA 
 
drug approval process, including information on pre-clinical trials, phase I, II 
 
and III trials, new drug applications and the drug marketing process. New 
 
sections cover the treatment of chronic pain syndromes. 
 
 
 
"Most medical schools are lagging in teaching the scientific facts about the 
 
medicinal use of cannabis," said Sunil K. Aggarwal, MD, PhD, cannabis expert and 
 
resident physician at N.Y.U. Medical Center. "It's great that doctors can now 
 
get excellent and rapid CME training on medical marijuana at The Answer Page." 
 
 
 
TheAnswerPage uses the Socratic question-and-answer teaching method that 
 
characterizes much of the clinical educational experience. The content, written 
 
by academic clinicians respected in their fields, is peer-reviewed and 
 
referenced from current texts and recent literature. 
 
 
 
Subscribers receive AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits(TM) by reading the content 
 
and completing an industry-unique interactive crossword puzzle. Crossword clues 
 
are structured to reinforce the teachings, and links are provided to related 
 
content. Subscribers have personal accounts that organize their CME credits and 
 
allow them to download, email or print CME certificates for credentialing and 
 
licensing. 
 
 
 
"Registering and content remain free so that physicians, researchers and other 
 
healthcare professionals around the world may take advantage of the exceptional 
 
content and reinforce their learning through our interactive crossword puzzle 
 
methodology," said John Stephenson, CEO of The Answer Page, Inc. ABOUT THE 
 
ANSWER PAGE: TheAnswerPage is a medical education website founded in 1998, 
 
providing daily education to doctors and other healthcare professionals. It is 
 
read in over 120 countries, has more than 20,000 registered users, and has 
 
granted over 100,000 hours of CME credits. The Massachusetts Medical Society 
 
jointly sponsors and accredits all of the educational content. 
 
 
 
CONTACT: John Stephenson, CEO, TheAnswerPage,  stephenson@theanswerpage.com   
 
 
 
SOURCE TheAnswerPage.com 
 
 
 
 
 
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