March 1, 2006 MM
Cover Story
The Money Maze
Commercial support--how to get it, how to eliminate the perception of bias that it creates, and how to collaborate effectively when commercial supporter...
Checkup
CME's Voice in Washington
I had high expectations going into the hot-topics session about the ongoing Senate investigation into pharmaceutical companies' educational grants at...
CME
CME: The Bigger Picture
Despite having to move its meeting from New Orleans to San Francisco after Hurricane Katrina struck last fall, the Alliance for CME drew more than 1,350 attendees to its 31st annual conference, held January 25 to 28...
Senate Extends Pharma Grants Probe
Receiving a letter from the United States Senate Finance Committee is a frightening experience, said a CME professional from a major pharmaceutical company...
Let's Communicate About Grant Proposals
The present system for submitting proposals for commercial support can be time-consuming and difficult. While project cost is certainly important to the...
Burnout Epidemic
As a CME professional, not only must you ensure that your activities are planned and implemented in accordance with Accreditation Council for CME guidelines,...
Outcomes, Level by Level
Some attendees hailed a session called Practical Strategies for Better Outcomes, held at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference...
Meeting Management
New Orleans 2006: Stay or Go?
For medical societies that had meetings planned for fall 2005 or early 2006, the decision to move their meetings from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina...
MPI's PEC-NA: Get Strategic
The continuing effort to define meeting planning as a profession and to establish it as an important strategic cog in the corporate wheel was front and...
PCMA Returns to Its Roots
Returning to the city that hosted its first meeting 50 years ago, the Professional Convention Management Association drew more than 3,000 attendees to...
5 Tips to Help Exhibitors With Compliance
Medical meeting exhibitors are struggling to interpret how the recent California Marketing Compliance Law, which regulates pharma companies' promotional...
California's Pharma Marketing Law
You may leave your heart in San Francisco but if you give a pen to a doctor there, you'd better keep track of how much it cost or so says the new California...
Pharma Meetings
Catering to Docs
Dinner meetings used to have a reputation, at least in the media, for being more about extravagance than education. But now, as in other aspects of pharmaceutical...
Second Opinion
Best Intentions
Did you know that if you rotate your right foot clockwise and then try to draw the number six in the air with your right hand, your foot will reverse...
Sites & Venues
Texas
What's New Texas experienced the worst of storms and the best of comebacks this past year. While Texas extended a big hand to victims of Hurricane Katrina,...
Conference Center Update
Pacific Palms Conference Resort, Industry, Calif., began a $10 million expansion project in October. When it is finished later this year, it will complete a $42 million transformation begun six years ago. ...
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