I love this story about a man who had the luck (if you can call it lucky to have to suffer a cardiac event at all) to have a heart attack during a lecture on heart disease at the Central Maine Medical Center. Talk about having a doctor (and some...

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Reading this editorial by Jerry Avorn in today's Boston Globe about academic detailing got me wondering why this hasn't really taken off. Avorn, the so-called "father of academic detailing," has been critical of the commercially supported CME...

I can hear the moans now: The American Medical Association's House of Delegates has finally approved the latest of its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs many versions of proposed recommendations around commercial support and CME. Sigh. I'm...

Remember the study about the potential for bias in commercially supported CME that came out in the May issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine? I (and others) tend to get caught up in the whole actual versus perceived bias argument, but this...

Stefan Schneeberger, M.D., an Austrian transplant surgeon, spoke about the benefits of live medical meetings at a recent conference that garnered opinions from a variety of stakeholders about the future of global meetings, both live and virtual...

"We have decided that we will no longer pay for doctors to attend international scientific and medical congresses but will instead focus our educational efforts on local educational opportunities for healthcare professionals," said AstraZeneca...

How did I not know that Derek Warnick had a blog? Called CME Confessions, it has me riveted. So far, I haven't gotten past this post on cruise CME (you know, CME that takes place somewhere fun, like a cruise ship or a ski resort). He pretty...

You want to include a mobile app in your meetings strategy, but it’s not as easy to do as you had hoped. You need to know when developing a mobile app makes sense—and when doesn’t it—how much it will cost, which features should be included and...

Pharma and life sciences meetings are essential for business, but meeting managers must be careful about compliance if they want to mitigate regulatory risks. This wrap-up from our annual forum will show you how.