I don't know if he was really going fast or if my brain was starting to clog up by the last session this afternoon, but I had a hard time keeping up with this one and know I can't do it any kind of justice until the slides are available. There was...

The presenter of this session was terrific; very down-to-earth and realistic about what a commercial supporter expects, wants, and sometimes doesn't get when it comes to proposed budgets and reconciling after the fact. A lot of it comes down to...

I loved that the panel of pharma folks decided to do this session a little differently. They each took on a role as legal, education, or medical, for either Company A or Company B, then role-played how a grant review committee meeting for various...

The bottom line, according to three pharma panelists, is don't do it. Don't let your requests for support mingle educational grants with charitable contributions and exhibits. Tease out the different requests and send them to the appropriate...

The medical education theater session was nothing short of awesome, though at first I wasn't sure where it was going. Presenter Richard Aghababian, MD, started by taking a hard look at where we're at when it comes to establishing and monitoring...

Went to one of the new "transitions" sessions this morning. This one was about "reinventing yourself," or how to deal with downsizing, new career twists, and other changes. It was pretty general advice, not specific to CME providers, though the...

Getting up at 2:30 am for my flight to New Orleans today for the Alliance for CME meeting has left me pretty groggy, but I still managed to take reams of notes at the MECCs section meeting I went to this afternoon. For all the heat medical...

At least one good thing resulted from the Christmas Day incident when would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 into Detroit. Finally, the phrase “security theater” has made its way into the public...