March 1, 2005 MM
Cover Story
How to Comply with the Accreditation Council for CME’s Updated Standards for Commercial Support
WITH THE MAY deadline for implementing the Accreditation Council for CME's updated Standards for Commercial Support breathing down their necks, participants...
Checkup
The Positive Side of Cognitive Dissonance
AT MY FIRST continuing medical education professionals' meeting, the 1997 American Medical Association CME Provider/Industry Collaboration Conference,...
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Letters to the Editor
The Wind Beneath My Wings Dear Editor: I nodded knowingly as I read your editorial about your father [The Wind Beneath My Wings, January/February 2005]....
CME
Rx for Regulatory Angst
THE ALLURE OF San Francisco and anxiety over the looming implementation of the Accreditation Council for CME's updated Standards for Commercial Support...
Surgeons Learn Disaster Management
During a new session at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Tampa, Fla., in January, 200 participants experienced a simulated mass casualty...
Defying the Rules
WHY IS IT that within the CME enterprise there remain small pockets of individuals and organizations that continue to skirt established guidelines and...
The Quiet Leader
THERE IS A lot of in the CME world. If you don't have to worry about your finances or declining enrollment, then there is the specter of implementing...
AMA/PRA Performance Improvement Credits
THE AMERICAN MEDICAL Association has recently authorized providers to offer a new type of activity for AMA PRA Category 1 credit: Performance Improvement....
The Case for Case-based OUTCOMES MEASUREMENT
MANY PROVIDERS think they don't have the time, money, knowledge, or skills to do outcomes measurement that will determine how effective the activity was...
Meeting Management
MM on the Air
Medical Meetings executive editor and Capsules blogger Sue Pelletier joined Jeffrey D. Brown, founder of TradeShowBlues, on Association Nation, a radio...
RSNA Helps Overseas Attendees
EDUCATING INTERNATIONAL conference attendees about U.S. immigration policies and procedures is critical to ensuring that they reach their conferences...
PCMA Unveils New Strategic Plan
Research, industry advocacy, and education are the cornerstones of the Professional Convention Management Association's new strategic plan, which looks...
Airline Update
Despite Delta Air Lines' decision to discontinue its Meeting Network product as of February 28, it appears to be business as usual for its competitors...
Create an International Action Plan
THIS SPRING, there is a fresh buzz surrounding international meetings. Future Watch 2005, the annual survey conducted by Meeting Professionals International...
Attracting the Wired Generation
AS YOU PROBABLY read in No Time for CME, Medical Meetings, January/February issue, young physicians are emerging as a whole new category of learners....
Cancellation and Force Majeure Issues in the SARS Era
Less than two weeks before the American Association for Cancer Research was scheduled to hold its 2003 annual meeting in Toronto, the Premier of Ontario...
Pharma Meetings
Off-Label, Off-Limits?
TREAD CAREFULLY when it comes to off-label discussion: That was the message that came through loud and clear in a 90-minute audioconference called, Off-Label:...
MPI Tackles Today's Tough Issues
Celebrating a record attendance of more than 2,700 at the Professional Education Conference held in San Diego in January, Meeting Professionals International...
Conference Centers Bullish on Pharma
Pharmaceutical meetings were strong for us for the past three years, especially traditional sales training meetings, said Andy Dolce, founder, chairman,...
Special Section
VIEW FROM THE TOP
IF CHRISTINE DUFFY had been a few inches taller, we might never have heard of her. Her first career goal was to be a Pan Am international flight attendant...
Sites & Venues
CONFERENCE Centers
IN NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y., the 116,000-square-foot Conference Center Niagara Falls opened last June, across from the Seneca Niagara Casino. It features a...
Northern Kentucky
SITTING IN THE SHADOW of Cincinnati, its more familiar neighbor across the Ohio River, Northern Kentucky offers its own compelling package of amenities...
Second Opinion
Business as Unusual?
THIS YEAR'S ALLIANCE for CME annual conference, held January 26 to 29 in San Francisco, was an eye-opener in many ways for me. In addition to learning...
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