January/February 2011 MM
Cover Story
CME Providers Must Reconcile Budgets to the Penny
What commercial supporters want CME providers to know about budgets, fees, expenses, line items, and reconciliations. ...
Time to Unbundle Educational Grants
Commercial supporters really don’t like it when you bundle an educational grant request with an exhibit sell sheet and drop it on the grant department’s desk. Here are some ways to unbundle your requests so each piece goes where it belongs....
Checkup with Editor Sue Pelletier
CME Enterprise Quick to React to Challenges
While it’s easy for CME providers to gripe about dwindling dollars and scathing critiques from those who don’t really understand what it is they are criticizing, I propose we kick off this new decade by adopting an attitude of gratitude for the very things that make us crazy. ...
Consult, CME: In Practice by Anne Finger
CME Credits for Altruism?
Is there a place for fostering altruism in CME? Is it needed and viable in today’s environment? ...
Consult, CME Monitor By Stephen Lewis
Ringing In a New Era for CME
What the CME community can do now to be more productive in the future...
Consult, Social Media Connections By Brian S. McGowan, PhD
Getting Started With Social Media
Here is some practical advice on how to begin exploring the use of social media for enhancing your CME program....
Consult, Lighten Up by Lawrence Sherman
A Call for Collaboration Among CME Providers
It’s time for continuing medical education providers to stop competing and start collaborating....
Consult, Peer Perspectives by Pam Beaton
From Accreditor to Accredited CME Provider
What I discovered when I went from being an accreditor to an accredited provider...
Consult, Peer Perspectives by Jan Perez
Making the Case for Accredited CME
CME providers need to be vocal advocates about all that’s right with continuing medical education....
Consult, Peer Perspectives by Bill Cooney
12 Best Practices for Hybrid Meetings
Here’s how you can get the best of both real and virtual worlds for your meetings....
Vitals
AAFP Receives $1 Million Grant for Performance Improvement Program
The American Academy of Family Physicians has received a $1 million grant to support a new performance improvement continuing medical education program designed to help family physicians enhance the care they provide to patients with cardiovascular disease....
Pri-Med’s New Open Network Aims to Advance Innovation in Physician Education
Pri-Med launches Open Network initiative to find new approaches to CME content and funding....
The Future of Healthcare Exhibits: Less Commercial, More Clinical
A poll by healthcare brand communications agency Photosound found that 88 percent of the 43 global healthcare exhibitors surveyed say the trade show floor of the future will be more focused on providing clinical discussion than on promotion and sales. ...
Alliance for CME CALLS for Online Learning
The Alliance for CME launches new Competency Assessment and Lifelong Learning Series....
Sanofi-aventis Layoffs Include Meetings Department
Among the 1,700 employees laid off from Sanofi-aventis pharmaceutical company in late November were those who work in the company’s meeting planning department....
Alliance for CME Offers Satellite Radio Series
The Alliance for CME launches a new “Lifelong Learning” series on XM Satellite Radio....
Duffy Leaves Maritz to Lead Cruise Association
Christine Duffy, president and CEO of Maritz Travel, is leaving the company to become president of Cruise Lines International Association on February 1. ...
Feature
Top 4 Trends in CME
Results of a peer-reviewed study of the past five years in literature about continuing medical education...
Healthcare Reform Means More Meetings
Life sciences meeting planners can expect a busy next few years, according to experts at the 3rd Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum—West Coast....
Special Section
MEDICAL MEETINGS 2011 MERIT AND DISTINCTION AWARD BALLOT
MEDICAL MEETINGS 2011 MERIT AND DISTINCTION AWARD BALLOT...
Sites
Site News: Orlando, Barbados
Meeting site news from Orlando, Barbados, and beyond....
Ethical Hypothetical by Karen Overstreet and Jacqueline Parochka
Reviewing CME Course Contents
What to ask a communications company before asking your CME committee to review an activity....
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