Second City Communications, the corporate services arm of comedy theater company, The Second City, has partnered with Corpedia to launch "RealBiz Shorts Life Sciences," the second module of ethics and compliance video shorts focused on challenges facing pharmaceutical and medical device sales professionals.

The RealBiz Shorts platform, which launched at Compliance Week 2010, uses humor to engage employees, drawing attention to serious, high stakes topics, and this new catalog spotlights best—and worst—practices to ensure your employees are acting legally and ethically in the highly regulated area of sales interactions with healthcare providers.

"When we launched RealBiz Shorts last year, we wanted to create ethics and compliance content for the YouTube era with interesting, funny programming that goes beyond typical training materials," said Tom Yorton, CEO of Second City Communications. "People actually enjoy watching the videos, which helps draw attention to the issues and increases the 'ratings' of existing training and resources."

The RealBiz Shorts Life Sciences module, is drawing a strong response from blue chip players in the category with 13 major pharmaceutical and medical device companies signing on to collaborate with Second City Communications and Corpedia as founding partners that helped shape the videos' subject matter. Founding partners include:, Medtronic, Roche, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Allergan, Biomet, Cardinal Health, Watson, Johnson & Johnson, Covidien, UCB, Sunovion and others.

Founding clients of the RealBiz Shorts Life Sciences module contributed their subject matter expertise to the development process, helping the Second City Communications writing team hit high priority topics in the right way. "While pairing comedy with compliance may seem counterintuitive, we love how RealBiz Shorts reflects the challenges our people face," said Clarice McCauley, counsel for Roche Diagnostics Corporation.

"By presenting these important topics in an engaging way, we believe we can improve comprehension and retention, while supporting a positive culture of compliance at our company," added Sujata Dayal, chief compliance officer and corporate vice president at Biomet.

More information about RealBiz Shorts Life Sciences is available at http://www.realbizshorts.com/lifesciences.