Practical CME - Gregory P Zengo MD Impractical CME - Dont be Fooled by Website Watkinsville Georgia

American Medical Training is a CME training company founded by two executives that saw the need for quality medical education. I have been mentioned favorably in the report about Dr Gregory Zengo. My goal in writing this rebuttal is to vouch for Dr. Zengo as a Physician doing CME training. We have both worked together in this industry prior to starting our own companies and I have always found the doctor to be honest in his approach, amiable towards his clients, and extremely professional. I found this article about Dr. Zengo totally out of character. On another note, we have no record of a Dr. Todd M or Dr. Bill H.

The above report is a complete fraud. It was likely written by a competing medical education CME provider who is threatened by PracticalCME's success and spotless reputation. This post is an attempt to slander PracticalCME's perfect reputation over the past 2 years and is worthy of legal action against the author.

Please allow me to deconstruct this fake report for you line by line

1. At our courses in Ft. Lauderdale in November of 2008, no attendee was named Todd, and none were from California. I personally met each attendee that weekend. We have the names and addresses of all participants. That is the only time we have had a conference in Ft. Lauderdale.

2. The course had no sponsors whatsoever and has a spotless record of compliance with all CME standards.

3. Nobody at PracticalCME has any relationship with marketer Dan Kennedy. His name was never mentioned at any of our presentations.

4. The Hormone lecture is our most popular course and one participant even called it THE BEST of the 4 courses he has ever taken on the subject (see www.PracticalCME.com for testimonials). I authored that course and have practiced BHRT in my private office since 2000 and have been successful enough to drop obstetrics, night call, Medicaid and hospital duties thanks to our thriving office BHRT practice.

5. The Weight Loss course DID include the HCG diet and it still does. Many doctors who attended that conference are practicing the HCG diet right now in their practices thanks to our training. In fact, our current video courses in both Hormones and Weight Loss were both recorded at that meeting, so the evidence is there on the DVD! The weight loss course also includes over 200 citations from the medical literature. No other course is better supported by facts.

6. There was no recommendation of any specific weight loss product or smoothie at the meeting. Despite requests from the attendees for me to endorse products, I remained neutral and discussed the strengths and weaknesses of all. Again, the evidence is there on the DVD.

7. There was no marketing/promotion kit sold in November, 2008. Our video course called Marketing Mastery and Internet Dominance was released in April of 2009. The cost was $495 for a 4-hour course with a full money-back guarantee. This is a bargain compared to the $10,000+ marketing courses that are sold at other company's courses.

8. Consents and forms are currently included with PracticalCME courses at NO CHARGE.

9. The fake poster says he should have left the conference after the hormone course and weight loss course but he stayed for the sclerotherapy course. That was impossible since the sclerotherapy course was taught a day BEFORE the other two. Here was the schedule: Mesotherapy11/12, Intro to Liposuction 11/13, Sclerotherapy 11/14, Hormone 11/15, Weight Loss 11/16.

10. We teach an aspiration technique for reticular veins. The post is dead wrong or maybe just too mentally challenged to realize the difference.

11. We are the only postgraduate medical training company to offer a money-back guarantee and we stand by that. Some of our competition may be threatened by that since they are not well capitalized enough/too much in debt to offer a guarantee. It's hard to give money back if the money they take for tuition is spent and wasted before they even pay for (or cancel) the live conference.


So, you definitely should watch your wallet because there is an unscrupulous element in some post-graduate medical CME courses. Some of them are trying to separate you from your money by making big promises for future courses and not delivering. You would think that the older, more established training companies would be the most stable, but this is not true in some cases. Some of these outfits lived it up and grew too big and inefficient in 2005 and 2006 when the economy was strong. Some of these same companies quickly went into negative cash flow and then crashed when enrollments began to fall in 2007. Trust me, I know. One of these companies delayed payment to me for 3 months and then bounced a check to me in early 2008 when I was an independent contractor teaching for them. This caused me to resign and join PracticalCME. PracticalCME was formed during the down economy and is very efficient at delivering a great product at a fair price with plenty of ongoing support for our clients.

NEVER purchase a membership for future course bookings unless you get something of value in return RIGHT NOW. Always use a credit card and be sure you book within your 90-day chargeback window.

At PracticalCME, whenever someone registers for one of our membership packages, our attendees get all the courses they purchased on video immediately after payment in addition to admission to the future live courses. PracticalCME escrows all tuition money until the participant takes the corresponding live course. Beware of other memberships when all you get is a worthless piece of paper in return. Many will then start cancelling the live lectures after you've spent thousands of dollars on travel.

Do you want to know if a training company is legit? Call them up and ask if they will accept your payment for the course on-site rather than in advance so you can be sure the course will go on as scheduled. If they say no, then you should be very suspicious.

Call and ask to speak with the Medical Director and get a feel for his/her passion for teaching. The best Medical Directors remain active in clinical practice so they can stay up on the latest trends and know what works for their patients and their practices. Medical Directors should hold at least one University teaching appointment.

PracticalCME has never cancelled a course.

Finally, I invite the people and organization mentioned in the last paragraph of the post to set the record straight that this post was indeed not made by anyone connected with their courses, but fabricated by a third party who is trying to slander both PracticalCME and the other parties named in the last paragraph of the post.

We at PracticalCME are fully prepared to honor our guarantee and make things right with Todd M. We even looked in the Internet Yellow Pages but there is no Todd M. physician in San Jose. Now how do you help someone who has never paid for nor attended your courses and does not exist.Hmmmm. C'mon Todd...are you there?...Post a copy of page 49 of your weight loss course syllabus from our November conference. You know...one of the pages that teaches about the HCG diet.

Gregory P. Zengo, MD
Medical Director
PracticalCME.com