The U.S. Senate Committee on Finance has extended its probe of pharmaceutical industry educational grants by sending a letter of inquiry to the Accreditation Council for CME. The December 19 letter, available at www.accme.org, explains that the...

When the American College of Emergency Physicians opened its 2006 Scientific Assembly on October 15 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, it was meeting in a facility where just months before emergency physicians had still been...

Industry-Funded CME activities continue to focus on arming physicians with the latest scientific research data regarding novel, often expensive, diagnostic and treatment approaches. However, physicians may fail to translate that information into...

Professional attendance at healthcare meetings has climbed 13.8 percent compared to five years ago, according to a new study by the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association...

Despite dire predictions that pharmaceutical companies' commercial support of CME would shrink or evaporate entirely, a study conducted by Cutting Edge Information, Research Triangle Park, N. C., shows that funding is on the rise. Released in...

More choices, more pressures. With the introduction over the past few years of Internet point-of-care and performance improvement activities, physicians' menu of methods for obtaining CME credits has grown larger than ever. On the downside...