Sidebar: Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Micro-Scenario

Sidebar: Film Sources for Creating More Interactive CME

Physician Shares Likes, Dislikes About Live Medical Meetings

Rhinologic Society Sets COI Policy

Pharma Meeting Managers Need to Get Proactive

Social Media and the ACCME: The Survey Says…

Results of a recent survey of CME providers about the Accreditation Council for CME and social media....

Lighthouse Learning Receives Initial Accreditation

Medical education company Lighthouse Learning, which caused a splash in the press when it launched last fall due to a vow not to seek commercial support, has received a two-year initial accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. ...

CME Income Grows Despite Shrinking Commercial Support

Commercial support may be continuing to decline, but accredited CME income still tops $2 billion....

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. ...

Top 4 Trends in CME

Results of a peer-reviewed study of the past five years in literature about continuing medical education...

International Organization Expands Its Pharma/Physician Interaction Code

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations has expanded its Code of Practice from covering just marketing practices to now including all interactions between its research-based pharmaceutical corporate and association members and healthcare professionals, medical institutions, and patient organizations. ...

New AMEX Product to Simplify Foreign Currency Payments to Healthcare Providers

A new product from American Express Meetings & Events is designed to make it easier to make payments to healthcare providers using foreign currency. ...

CMS Pushes Sunshine Act Data Collection Deadline to 2013

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced earlier this month that it was pushing back the deadline by which pharmaceutical companies must begin collecting data on the amount of money they spend on individual physicians to January 1, 2013. ...

Medical Association Cancels Alabama Meeting Over Immigration Law

A medical association has pulled its meeting out of an Alabama hotel in protest over the state’s immigration law....

Keeping REMS Up to Standards

Experts from the Accreditation Council for CME, the Food and Drug Administration, and the commercial support community address how to ensure REMS activities align with the ACCME’s Standards for Commercial Support....

#CMEReg Twitter Chat 2/14/12: The Sunshine Act and CME

Chris Lamond and Andy Rosenberg from the CME Coalition joined a discussion on a special #CMEReg chat on 2/14/12 to talk about a proposed amendment to the Sunshine Act that has been causing anxiety in most CME providers who learn about it. Here are a few highlights of the chat....

CME Coalition Urges CME Providers to Take Action Against Sunshine Act Proposed Rule

The CME Coalition is asking CME providers to oppose a proposed rule to the Physician Payment Sunshine Act that could make CME providers responsible for payment reporting to commercial supporters....

CME Monitor: AMA Logic Harms Medicine

The American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs stares at a clear, sunny day and chooses to call for rain....

Task Force 2011: CEJA, Misperceptions, REMS, and More

The AMA National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration conference explored the challenges of working together to improve patient care in today’s “gotcha” environment, along with hot topics like the controversial recent CEJA report and REMS....

AMA Approves CEJA Commercial Support Recommendations

The fifth time was the charm for the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs 1-A-11 report, “Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education,” which was passed by the AMA House of Delegates in late June. ...

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....

ABMS Questions the Role of CME in MOC

Does the American Board of Medical Specialties’ white paper call for a new accreditation system just for maintenance of certification continuing medical education?...

Scoping Out the Situation

How to handle a change in the scope of a CME activity...

Pfizer Eliminates Most Unsolicited Grants Under Med Ed Group Reorganization

Ninety percent of Pfizer’s Medical Education Group’s budget now will be allocated through a request-for-proposal process....

CME Income Grows Despite Shrinking Commercial Support

Commercial support may be continuing to decline, but accredited CME income still tops $2 billion....

AMA Approves CEJA Commercial Support Recommendations

The fifth time was the charm for the American Medical Association’s Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs 1-A-11 report, “Financial Relationships with Industry in Continuing Medical Education,” which was passed by the AMA House of Delegates in late June. ...

Working Together Works

If there’s ever a part of continuing medical education that providers love to hate, it has to be the budget and reconciliation processes. Kudos to a collaborative working group that developed a standardized solution....

How Neuroscience Can Enhance Attendee Engagement

What you need to know about the neuroscience of engagement to create more meaningful meetings, conferences, and events...

Raising the Bar on CSR at Pharma Forum 2012

Some attendees of the 2012 Pharmaceutical Meeting Management Forum took part in a corporate social responsibility activity by recycling soap at Clean the World....

How Docs Learn About New Pharma Regs

Audience members at a physician panel at the 4th Annual West Coast Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum, held last December in San Diego, were curious to know how docs are learning about new regulations such as those included in the Sunshine Act. Here's what some docs had to say....

Physicians Speak Out About the Sunshine Act

Three physicians took the stage at the 4th Annual West Coast Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum to explain to pharma and life sciences planners their perspective on healthcare reform, online versus live education, and what it takes to get them to participate in medical meetings in today’s increasingly transparent environment. ...

5 Flash Mob Rules

Flash mobs know how to go viral—here’s how you can use flash-mob techniques to leverage social media for your meetings....

Does CME Work?

CME providers at the weekly #CMEChat Twitter hashtag tackle the age-old question: Does CME work?...

Study Says Docs Poised to Go Digital

Physicians are beginning to embrace online learning, according to a new study....

NIQIE Adds Two Modules to Online Certificate Program

Inappropriate Interference at a Medical Meeting

What to do when a commercial supporter's agency interferes on site at a CME activity....

Alliance in Alignment With CME Trends

The Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Profession’s outgoing Executive Director Paul Weber has seen the organization go through the same changes as the industry it serves over the past few years. ...