March 2009 MM

Cover Story

The American College of Chest Physicians transforms its annual meeting exhibit floor into an education center

Increasing regulatory scrutiny pushes medical meeting exhibitors and association trade show organizers to rethink the exhibit floor....

How to Help Exhibitors Comply with the New PhRMA and AdvaMed Restrictions

Healthcare meeting organizers help exhibitors and sponsors comply with the new PhRMA and AdvaMed codes...

Checkup with Editor Tamar Hosansky

The continuing medical education community needs to demonstrate a united voice in the face of widespread criticism.

The continuing medical education community needs to develop a branding message and a code of ethics to forge a national identity and counter media, government, and public attacks....

Vitals

PhRMA Code Compliance for Meeting Planners

Attorneys from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America hit the road in January to explain the updated Code on Interactions with Healthcare...

Continuing Medical Education Organizations Launch National Initiative

Three major continuing medical education organizations have launched a national initiative aimed at improving CME and better aligning it with the wider healthcare system....

AdvaMed Toughens Ethics Code

The Advanced Medical Technology Association has released an updated, stricter version of its Code of Ethics on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals ...

Medical Meetings Grow in 2008

Despite the recession, professional attendance at healthcare meetings grew 1 percent in 2008...

Maintenance of Certification Programs Move Forward

All of the 24 boards that are members of the American Board of Medical Specialties have implemented their maintenance of certification programs in 2008. ...

Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME Poll

Members of the Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME offer their opinions about Accreditation Council for CME policies....

Meetings Industry Fights Back

Meeting or junket? Incentive reward or boondoggle? Distinctions that may be perfectly clear to meeting professionals are clearly confusing to many Americans....

In Memoriam: David Lichtenauer

Longtime continuing medical education leader David Lichtenauer passed away on January 19, 2009....

Consult, Lighten Up

Attendance and Energy was down at the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference This Year

From the moment that I arrived, I noticed the absence of something that has always been present at the Alliance for CME annual meeting: a buzz. Does CME need CPR?...

Consult, CME: In Practice

Bias Prevention in Continuing Medical Education

If you look at the headlines of any CME-related news these days, you'll find that the role of commercial support in CME is being challenged. At the heart...

Consult, CME Monitor

Should All Types of Continuing Medical Education Providers Be Accredited?

The continuing medical education community should focus on the quality of education, rather than on the provider type....

Features

Tips for Writing an Effective Continuing Medical Education Grant Proposal

How to make your CME grant proposal stand out from the crowd....

Novo Nordisk Starts an SMM

How Tom Tolvé co-led the effort to put an SMM in place and has helmed the program through various evolutions, cutting meeting costs by an average of 15 percent...

Sites

A Georgia Legacy

Legacy Lodge & Conference Center at Lake Lanier Island Resort opened north of Atlanta in August 2008 as part of the first phase of a 10-year, multimillion-dollar...

Central Florida

During the next two years, more than 4,000 rooms and 434,000 square feet of new meeting space will become available as new Orlando convention hotel projects...

Texas

Many of the big hotel and meeting- and convention-related projects under way in Texas continue to forge ahead, despite the recession. In Arlington, Dallas...

Ethical Hypothetical

The Economy Hits CME Companies

What to do when your medical education and communication company goes under...

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