December 1, 2005 MM
Cover Story
Future Shock
Enoch Choi, MD, an urgent care physician and partner at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, found himself in a sweltering Wal-Mart parking lot...
Checkup
The Personal Side of Medicine
When I interviewed Marcia Jackson, PhD, American College of Cardiology, for the last installment in our women leaders series (see page 25), she told me...
CME
CME's Public Image Problem
CME has a public image problem. So said 84 percent of the attendees polled via audience-response system at an opening panel discussion at this year's...
CME and Katrina
The horror story in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, played out in words and heart-wrenching photographs, is likely to be with us for months or, perhaps,...
Navigating Rough Waters
Frustrated with finding funding for your continuing medical education activity? Tired of completing endless Web-based funding applications for pharmaceutical...
The Power of Consensus
I once sang at Carnegie Hall, said Marcia J. Jackson, PhD, senior advisor, education, with the American College of Cardiology in Bethesda, Md. During...
NAAMECC Gets New Board
The North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies named four new members to its board of directors at a meeting held in...
Meeting Management
Post-Katrina, Planners Rush to Relocate
When Hurricane Katrina slammed through the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and so were a whole lot of medical meetings. Cancellation...
No Free Lunch at AAFP
No Free Lunch was miffed when the American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., initially declined its request to exhibit at the AAFP Annual Meeting...
Certification Program for Medical Planners
While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners...
MPI to Provide CEUs at MM Conference
Meeting Professionals International has come on board as the educational sponsor for the Second Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, and will...
MPI/Amex Release Annual Industry Snapshot/Salary Survey from 2006
In Meeting Professionals International's new salary survey, based on 1,139 MPI members' responses gathered last spring, gender pay differences stood out...
The World Is Watching
Medical meeting planners in other countries are struggling with the very same dilemmas we face: How do we conduct CME in a fashion that best serves the...
Communicating During Crises
My last column for Medical Meetings was written shortly after the London bombings. In this issue our attention is focused on the aftermath of Hurricane...
Contracts After Katrina
Planners with meetings scheduled for the near future in areas hit by Katrina and other recent hurricanes have lots of questions concerning the legal implications...
Pharma Meetings
Braving the Big Easy
For the last seven years, Alcon Laboratories Inc. has broadcast a medical procedure from the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Louisiana, live, via satellite,...
Sites & Venues
Spas: Rejuvenation Treatment
At the Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi Hills, the serene 5th-floor Nagomi Spa and Fitness has a 23-foot-by-67-foot red granite stone pool, dry sauna for...
La Costa Resort and Spa
Gleaming from a $140 million renovation and expansion, La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., has been transformed from a faded legend into a modern...
Conference Canada
WHAT'S NEW Meeting planners know that Canada is much more than mountains, moose, and Mounties. The country's varied group destinations offer good value,...
The Midwest
WHAT'S NEW There's plenty of convention center news in the region. Chicago's McCormick Place West Building, expected to open in 2008, will have 470,000...
Second Opinion
Maybe It's Time for a Truce
I think my favorite moment at this year's Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration was when Gardiner Harris,...
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