July 1, 2005 MM
Cover Story
TRUE LIES
Most would agree that the trend toward evidence-based medicine, and toward evidence-based continuing medical education, is a good one, that doctors should...
Checkup
Choose Change
IT WAS WITH a growing sense of apprehension that I read the letter sent in June from the U.S. Senate finance committee to pharmaceutical companies asking...
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Letters to the Editor
More Than Cup Counters Dear Editor: I read the piece about your efforts (successful) to create a forum for pharmaceutical meeting planners [The Power...
CME
Senate Probes Pharma Grants
CME IS ON THE FEDERAL radar screen once again. This time the U.S. Senate is investigating pharma companies' educational grants, including funding for...
CME Passes the $2 Billion Mark
The Accreditation Council for CME's Annual Report Data 2004 has a lot of very interesting numbers including one that says the total income for ACCME-accredited...
AAFP Takes CME to the Web
The American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., did something a little different this year with its eight-year-old Annual Clinical Focus educational...
Looking for Resources
Medical Meetings is looking to develop a one-stop shop of resources that readers can use, free of charge, as templates to develop their own forms, letters,...
Kaiser Adopts Strict Guidelines
The Permanente Medical Group of the Kaiser Permanente health plan organization, which operates in nine states and Washington, D.C., recently updated its...
One Activity, Multiple Supporters
WHILE THERE IS nothing inherently wrong in developing CME activities supported by one company and this funding model should and will continue CME support...
Easing COI Management
SINCE MAY 1, PEOPLE in CME Land have been talking about the implementation of the updated Standards for Commercial Support, particularly the resolution...
10 Steps to Real Outcomes Measurement
The push is on to determine if the copious dollars expended to fund CME programs nationally actually translate to better patient care. The buzz phrase...
Meeting Management
Chicago Gets Kudos for New Labor Rules
THE NEW LABOR RULES at Chicago's McCormick Place are getting mostly positive feedback from event planners. It's definitely a step in the right direction,...
Boston Beefs Up Marketing Efforts
The American Dietetic Association's 2010 Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo is going to be headed to Beantown. So is the American Public Health Association's...
Hotel Labor Pains Continue
The contentious dispute between hotel management and union labor has become more controversial over what some industry groups, including the Convention...
Audit to Avoid Attrition
CLAUSE: Listing from Side to Side If Hotel shows that the Group has picked up less than 80 percent of the contracted room block, Hotel agrees to perform...
Did You Know
Next year, hotel contracts expire in several major cities. In Chicago; New York; Boston; Toronto; Honolulu; and Sacramento and Monterey, Calif., contracts...
Eight-Minute Networking
YOU'VE HEARD OF eight-minute dating? Well, how about eight-minute networking? That's right, the philosophy behind speed dating is now making its way into...
Boosting Exhibitors' ROI
THIS YEAR'S HEALTHCARE Convention & Exhibitors Association Annual Meeting, held June 4 to 7 in New Orleans, boasted a whopping 70 increase in educational...
Next Step: Nanomedicine
Imagine if doctors could find and eliminate cancer cells before a tumor develops, implant a pump the size of a molecule to deliver medication exactly...
Corrections Noted
In Medical Meetings' 2005 Facilities Guide, published this May, the following listing was inadvertently omitted from the Las Vegas section: MGM Grand...
Pharma Meetings
Europe Pushes Procurement
THE PUSH BY procurement to oversee travel and meeting sourcing is still relatively new at most U.S. companies. But in Europe, procurement has been involved...
KUDOS TO KNOTT
DEBORA KNOTT, meetings manager, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Plainsboro, N.J., was the lucky winner of Medical Meetings' 2004 Merit and Distinction (M&D) award...
MM Announces Second Pharma Conference
Mark your calendars: Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence are currently planning the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners...
A Shot of Motivation
When one of her pharma clients was launching a new injectable drug to help stimulate white blood cells to fight infection in chemotherapy patients, Clare...
Webinar: How to Cut Meeting Spend
Finding the right tools to help implement a corporate meeting management program can result in a huge amount of savings on meeting spend, according to...
Cost-Savings on the Cutting Edge
The typical approach to controlling meeting costs in pharmaceutical companies is to do so externally that is, to manage expenses through relationships...
Special Section
2005 M&D Award Winners
Medical Meetings' Annual M&D Awards program honors the 40 hotels, resorts, and conference centers chosen by our readers for merit and distinction in serving...
Sites & Venues
GOLF RESORTS
ON DAUFUSKIE ISLAND, S.C., Troon Golf took over management last year of the golf courses at Daufuskie Island Resort & Breathe Spa. Across Calibouge Sound...
Skytop Lodge
If you remember the Pennsylvania Poconos as an outdated collection of ski resorts and honeymoon havens, you're in for a pleasant surprise. I visited this...
Hampton, Va.
The Hampton Roads Convention Center, Hampton, Va., opened in May, just 20 minutes from the Norfolk (Va.) International Airport. With its sail-like canopy...
Puerto Rico: Golf Without a Passport
About 40 meeting professionals teed off in May at the third annual Meet the Greens Invitational Golf Classic and Marketplace. Hosted by the Puerto Rico...
Second Opinion
Bad Apples
I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER to laugh, cry, or bang my head against the wall after most of the interviews I did for this issue's cover story (see page 38). Are...
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