Medical Meetings June 2011 Issue
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The Risks and Rewards of Pharmaceutical Meetings
Pharma and life sciences meetings are essential for business, but meeting managers must be careful about compliance if they want to mitigate regulatory risks. This wrap-up from our annual forum will show you how. ...
Pharma Meeting Managers Need to Get Proactive
Keynoter at Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum urges meeting managers to comply with regs, advocate for meetings, and deliver meaningful experiences....
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Meetings Terms Glossary
A glossary of terms used by pharmaceutical and life sciences meeting planners....
Checkup with Editor Sue Pelletier
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Toward More Patient-Centered CME
Bringing in the patient’s point of view can make for more compelling continuing medical education....
Is CEJA Becoming an Oxymoron?
The fifth time around, the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs report on CME still misses the mark....
Social Media: From Adopting to Using
How continuing medical education providers can become social media ninjas....
The Fizzling of PI CME
Is performance-improvement continuing medical education on its way out?...
Editorial: Meeting Managers Must Get Ready Now for the Sunshine Act
Practical ideas on how meeting planners can prepare now for the disclosure requirements of the Sunshine Act, which take effect January 2012...
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ACC Eliminates Old Model of Satellite Symposia
The American College of Cardiology recently announced it was doing away with the traditional satellite symposia model for extracurricular certified CME at its annual meeting. ...
AAMC Launches Pilot Program to Integrate Quality Data and CME
A new AAMC initiative aims to help academic medical centers find ways to integrate CME with their own quality data to improve performance....
Docs Say Commercial Support of CME Is Essential, and Problematic
A study published in the May 9 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine found that, while 88 percent of clinicians believe that commercial support injects bias into CME activities, only 15 percent want to do away with it altogether. ...
New Publication: Everything You Want to Know about the ACCME
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education sets the record straight on what the organization is, does, and how its accreditation system works in The ACCME at Work: Accreditation, Recognition, Education, Operations, and Governance. ...
Feature
3 Ways AIAMC Changed Up Its Annual Conference
Members of the Alliance of Independent Academic Medical Centers didn’t just preach about change at its annual meeting—they practiced it....
Ethical Hypothetical by Karen Overstreet and Jacqueline Parochka
Ethical Hypothetical: Separating In-Kind Contributions and Exhibits
A case study in how and when to separate exhibits and in-kind contributions related to continuing medical education activities....
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