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With pharmaceutical and other life sciences companies required to track payments to physicians starting January 1, 2012, under the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Provisions, StarCite recently offered some recommendations on how to track spend in a webinar titled “Tracking HCP-Related Meeting Spend Doesn’t Have to Be Difficult.”...More

The North American Association of Medical Education and Communication Companies has changed its name to the National Association of Medical Education Companies....More

A collaboration among the Indiana University School of Medicine, The North American Thrombosis Forum, and Twine Clinical was named the winner of The National Institute for Quality Improvement and Education’s first annual Best Practices in Performance Improvement Award...More

The amount of money involved in continuing medical education is what grabs people's attention. What we should focus on, though, is CME's results....More

A hypothetical case study in ethics and competitive disadvantages in continuing medical education....More

Funding a continuing medical education initiative with grants from multiple supporters is a good idea, but it can be fraught with pitfalls for providers and grantors alike....More

A 2009 survey by the American Medical Association found that while 86 percent of intrastate-accredited CME providers said that being able to offer AMA PRA Category 1 Credit was “very important,” the costs and difficulties of the accreditation requirements are growing so burdensome that a third say they may drop their accreditation in the future....More

Lighthouse Learning plans to develop its curricula without commercial support from the pharmaceutical or medical device industry....More

Here’s what’s new, and what’s not, with the Pfizer medical education group since the 2009 merger with Wyeth....More

How the International Society of Orthopaedic Centers, a group of high-level orthopedic surgeons, is turning small meetings into global progress....More

The Accreditation Council for CME, or ACCME, has gotten a lot of criticism lately. Maybe it's time to point out what it's doing right....More