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...
The Nashville Metro Council voted overwhelmingly to approve financing for the construction of the new Music City Center after a long and, at times, contentious debate. The approval of the new convention center also means that plans will go forward...
The proposed Marriott Marquis convention center hotel in Washington has been delayed in the courts by a spate of lawsuits. Months after one of the losing developers, JBG Properties Inc., filed a suit against the Washington Convention and Sports...
Voters in Massachusetts took to the polls on Tuesday for a special Massachusetts Senate election that resulted in Republican Scott Brown’s upset victory over Democratic candidate Martha Coakley. One of the biggest issues of the campaign for the...
Floyd Pennington asks an interesting question in this post: Major Challenges that Confront Medical Education (including CME) over the Next Decade (and links to a really interesting post on challenges in medical education generally). His question...
The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals (NC-CME) recently named Dennis K. Wentz, MD, FACPE, CCMEP, to the position of president-elect; he will serve as president from 2011-2012. Wentz, who is principal and co-founder of...
