Commercial Sites Outbid Medical Schools for Instructors in Continuing Education

Internet-based services draw top professors away from traditional programs

When Keith Horvath used a computer-synchronized laser to pierce a human heart for an audience of physicians logged on to a Web site, it demonstrated how far continuing medical education has come from the lecture and the rubber-chicken dinner.

But Dr. Horvath wasn't just doing it from the goodness of his heart or to benefit the Northwestern University Medical School, where he is

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