New iPhone® App Prepares Physicians For Board Exams

(NORTHBROOK, IL, March 10, 2010)—The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) is offering a new suite of digital education resources dedicated to preparing physicians to take their pulmonary, sleep, and critical care board exams. The new digital board review suite includes:

• iPhone^®/iPod touch^® app for ACCP Self-Education and Evaluation of Knowledge (ACCPSEEK)
  Similar to the print version, the ACCP-SEEK app is a case-based learning tool developed for board exam preparation or general self-directed learning. The new app also includes text highlighting, text and voice notations, smart searches, and pinching/zooming of figures. More information about the ACCP-SEEK app, including a video demo, is available at www.chestnet.org/iSEEK/.


• ACCP Board Review e-Books – ACCP Board Review e-Books for pulmonary, sleep, and critical care medicine cover topics from the corresponding ACCP Board Review courses. The books are on a Web-based platform, so they are accessible to anyone with a Web browser. No specific reading device is needed. Learn more about the ACCP Board Review e-Books at http://www.chestpubs.org/.

ABOUT THE ACCP
The ACCP-SEEK app and ACCP Board Review e-Books are resources developed by the American College of Chest Physicians, an organization founded in 1935 to educate physicians and health-care workers in the broad disciplines of chest medicine. Its flagship journal, CHEST, has long been one of the leading clinical medical journals in the world, and, in 2009, was named by the Special Libraries Association as one of the "top 100 most influential journals in biology and medicine of the past 100 years."

MEDIA CONTACT: For more information about the ACCP digital suite of continuing medical education resources, contact Jennifer Stawarz at jstawarz@chestnet.org or (847) 498-8306.