June 1, 2004
Cover Story
Don’t Relax Yet
Unlike the current Standards, the proposed version, if approved, will require CME providers to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest....
Sidebar: Why Can’t Reps Distribute CME Activities?
While the overall response to the new Standards has been very positive, there is one aspect that is generating concern among CME providers. Standard 4.5...
Sidebar: Unequal Protection?
The definition of commercial interest in the new Standards has stimulated some debate. Standard 1.1 defines a commercial interest as any proprietary entity...
Checkup
Protect Freedom of Education
Maybe it's because all four of my grandparents were immigrants, or maybe it's because I grew up in a neighborhood created for United Nations diplomats...
Feedback
Letters to the Editor
A Doctor's House Call Dear Editor: I just read your editor's letter [January/February 2004], and I am very touched by your story. I develop education...
CME
Baldwin Moves to Chicago
David Baldwin, MPA, has joined the Accreditation Council for CME in Chicago as manager of accreditation services. Baldwin most recently served as the...
Cheers for New Standards
When the new draft Standards for Commercial Support were released in April, they were greeted with a big sigh of relief from CME providers make that a...
SCORE One for Online CME
Until recently, the Internet has been the Wild West of the CME world. Lots of providers have stampeded the Web with online courses, but little had been...
Sunshine and Certified Providers
As we reported in the February 6 edition of MM's e-newsletter, Medical Meetings Extra, the issue of whether or not CME providers should be certified was...
Support the New Standards
The complex web of CME is not easily reduced to one-size-fits-all regulations nor to a degree of exact specificity as might be applied to a mixture of...
Empower Your Team
One of the most critical mistakes CME leaders can make is to think that they can implement change by themselves you need a qualified team empowered to...
Intellectual Property Law and CME
The Accreditation Council for CME's policy on the Internet states: The accredited provider must be able to document that it owns the copyright for, or...
Outcomes Measurement: Beyond the Basics
For CME providers, the question has moved beyond Should we do educational outcomes measurement? We know that we should and even that we must. Initially,...
Meeting Management
Docs Unfazed by Visa Hassles
The pursuit of knowledge and the chance to meet with peers seem to be outweighing visa glitches and other obstacles for overseas doctors attending U.S....
Outside Contractors
CLAUSE: In With the Outside Crowd Group will not be required to use Facility's in-house, exclusive, or preferred contractors or vendors for services such...
Pop Quiz
It's that time again. The school year is ending. Summer's about to begin. But before the fun can start, it's exam time. So here is a little quiz to see...
From 9/11 to 3/11: Hard Lessons to Learn Again
Mexico City, El Presidente Intercontinental Hotel, March 11, 2004, 6 a.m. The ringing phone startled me out of a deep sleep. With the opening of the Foro...
Getting Your Meeting Unstuck
We've all been in strategic meeting sessions that spend seemingly endless hours fishboning and analyzing without ever developing action steps or achieving...
Sites & Venues
ALL-INCLUSIVE Resorts
In Mexico's Riviera Maya, the strip of fast-developing coastline south of Cancun and north of the Mayan ruins at Tulum, the 446-room Iberostar Paraiso...
Chaminade Conference Center
My only concern about Chaminade was whether it would be too relaxing for the meeting I was to attend I found myself dreaming of long walks on the nature...
Second Opinion
Make CME Work!
I really dislike opening up The Wall Street Journal and reading, once again, that the only physician behavior change that results from CME is more prescriptions...
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