December 1, 2000
Articles
Time, Money, and Meetings
More physicians obtain CME by attending meetings than by any other means, according to preliminary figures from Medical Meetings' eighth annual survey...
Feedback
Gifts to Physicians I take issue with Mark Schaffer's remarks on page 32 of the September/October issue, which led me to reread his article in JCEHP [The...
PHARMA FIRMS STEP UP MEETINGS ACTIVITY
Numbers Tell All What's hot in the medical conference industry Some lure physicians with celebrity autograph signings, some with CME, but however they...
What's in a Name?
PLANSOFT IS NOW MPOINT, WITH NEW MEETING PRODUCT PlanSoft's completely redesigned meeting planning Web site has a new address: www.mpoint.com. The updated...
High on Philly
HEALTH CARE CONGRESS CATCHES GOP WAVE The Greater Philadelphia Health Care Congress (GPHCC) hopes to ride the wave of success of the Republican National...
CHICAGO: NEW LABOR RULES PASS EARLY TESTS
Radiological Society of North America officials say their first meeting in Chicago since the city resolved its much-publicized labor problems was an unqualified...
Dot-com Doorway
IACVB LAUNCHES MAJOR FOR-PROFIT WEB INITIATIVE Members of the International Association of Convention and Visitor Bureaus turned out in large numbers...
Offline Evolution
MIMLISTERS GO FACE-TO-FACE Q: What has 800 brains, 25,000 years of meeting management experience, and a big mouth?A: The hottest place for meeting chat...
PEOPLE
HEALTH CARE Wanda Johnson, CMP, has been promoted to director, CME Services, with The Endocrine Society in Bethesda, Md. She had been associate director,...
PLACES
Groundbreaking news about hotels and other meeting facilities NEW AND IMPROVED Wyndham has rebranded Baltimore's largest hotel, the Omni Inner Harbor,...
CONSULT
Take Out the Trade Names If you think your conference attendees aren't as concerned as you are about commercial influence creeping into meeting content,...
Education, Not Infomercials
Nurses' associations say that education on the show floor can be kept clean - free from product promotion, that is. And, they say, the benefits outweigh...
Ties That Bind
Under a media spotlight, the CME community is issuing new rules to govern relations between pharmaceutical companies, educators, and physicians.You've...
Formula for Success
What do you get when you combine high-quality content with low registration fees, and add savvy marketing strategies? Pri-Med - a healthy, growing trade...
Top Guides
Winning Promotion How Sweet It Is... Portable, yet comprehensive. That's what MM's panel of editors liked about the winner of our third annual Top Guides...
* LegalEase
Copyright 101 From the photos in your brochures to the contracts you have with speakers, copyright laws come into play in just about every phase of the...
* Tech Edge
e-Meetings: Why Groupware? Do your meetings drag on without resolution? Do certain people on your team bulldoze decisions through? If you're frustrated...
* For Adult Learners Only
Active to the Finish This column describes an evaluation technique that keeps learners active at the session's end. It was first described by the statistician...
* Marketing Medical Meetings
Test for Success Someone once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, says Jack Fisher, chairman...
* Capsules
Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers * INDUSTRY NOTES A biotech startup will team up with Merck to educate physicians about HIV...
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