March 1, 2004
Cover Story
THE FRUSTRATION FACTOR
EVERYONE'S AFRAID, says Janice Miller, director, CME, Brown Medical School, Providence, R.I. Pharmaceutical companies have their legal departments working...
Checkup
The Fear Effect
IT'S A NIGHTMARE! That's how one CME provider described the new commercial support process to me. As a reaction to the OIG pharma marketing guidance,...
Feedback
Letters to the Editor
A Doctor's House Call Dear Editor: This was such a moving and well-done editorial in the January/February 2004 issue. These stories and the actions they...
CME
More Confusion Ahead
CME PROVIDERS WILL face more confusion, frustration, and bureaucracy when soliciting commercial support, Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, told attendees at the...
Case Study: ARS for Medical Education
At Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., the big issue three years ago was how to liven up its grand rounds programs. Donna Beales, MLIS, librarian...
Pharmacists' Role Increasing
A recently released survey of more than 1,500 practicing pharmacists who attended Boston-based Pri-Med Institute's Pharm-Med Updates, a continuing series...
People on the Move
Kathleen Johnson, EdM, has joined the American College of Surgeons in Chicago as its first manager of national and regional skills centers, experiential...
Don't Ban Communication and Collaboration
ALMOST 15 YEARS have elapsed since the FDA caught the attention of the CME world with its proposed draft guidance on regulation of commercially supported...
Don't Keep It a Secret
ONCE YOUR ORGANIZATION has created a new vision and developed strategies to achieve it, it's time to plan how that vision will be communicated. In most...
Is CME a Profession?
THIS IS MORE than an idle question, especially after the recent Alliance for CME meeting in Atlanta where the issue of whether CME providers should be...
You've Collected the Evaluations Now What?
TWO YEARS AGO, our strategic partner, Axdev Global, an educational company in Norfolk, Va., told me that return on investment is only a tangential concept...
ASK THE AUDIENCE
EVEN WHEN PHYSICIANS perceive commercial bias in a certified CME activity, the majority of them still consider the content valid and credible. That is...
Changing Behavior ONE PHYSICIAN At a Time
WHEN PEOPLE SAY CME doesn't work and we have to reposition it, I always say hogwash we've always known what works, says CME veteran Sue Ann Capizzi. What...
Meeting Management
US-VISIT: Raising International Ire
Will US-VISIT the new program in which foreign visitors to this country are being fingerprinted be a minor inconvenience or a major hassle for meeting...
New on MeetingsNet: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
If today's jobless economic recovery is hitting a little too close to home for comfort, you're probably wondering where all the jobs went. Wonder no more...
Q&A: e-Registration Made Easy
Few people understand online meeting registration systems or most meeting technologies, for that matter as well as Jeff Rasco, president of Attendee Management...
5 Steps to Growing Your Meeting in Cyberspace
A COMPELLING WEB SITE has become very important in promoting and supporting your meetings. Here's my list of the five most important things to do on your...
Ease the Pain for International Attendees
RECENT CHANGES in security measures for foreign visitors have the potential to affect international meetings held in the United States. A new program...
Pharma Meetings
Bidding for Ballrooms
IT HAS BECOME relatively common for corporate procurement departments to get involved with site selection in their role overseeing meeting and event contracting....
SPEAK OUT: Sally Shankland
Direct-to-consumer, or DTC, pharmaceutical promotion has unquestionably created value. It has created a healthy sense of empowerment among patients, reduced...
MM Co-Sponsors CME/Pharma Conference
New and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in meeting planning and commercial support. You've told us that it would be valuable to have...
4 Steps to Cutting Costs
EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, the newspapers say that the economy is turning around. While that may be the case for many sectors of our economy such as healthcare,...
Breaking Their Silence
We're almost like a covert group. We sometimes joke that you know when a medical science liaison has [visited a doctor], but you don't really know what...
Sites & Venues
BARNETT CENTER Opens
IN LA HABRA, Calif., on the Los Angeles Orange County border, a new conference facility has opened. The Barnett Center, which is part of the headquarters...
on LOCATION: Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans
WHEN YOU WALK into the air-conditioned entrance of New Orleans' only AAA Five-Diamond luxury hotel, you're not just leaving Canal St. you're entering...
Desert Meetings
WHAT'S NEW The popularity of desert destinations for meetings continues unabated, motivating sunbelt cities to invest in improvements to their infrastructure...
Second Opinion
A Drop in the Bucket?
SO THERE'S THIS WELL full of money called a pharmaceutical company's marketing department. Lots of buckets dip into that well, including those for promotion...
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