CME veterans Jacqueline Parochka, EdD; Richard Tischler, PhD; and Jane Ruppenkamp, have formed PTR Educational Consultants, LLC. Based in Bristow, Va., the company offers online training and products to support CME program administrators‘...
A note from Capsules co-blogger Anne Taylor-Vaisey...
A group of former fighter pilots called LifeWingers Partners has teamed up with the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) in Columbus, Ohio, to teach healthcare workers the safety and efficiency secrets that military and civilian airlines...
It seems like everyone loves to badmouth medical education companies—well, here‘s a reason not to. The recently released aggregated data from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education on its 736 accredited providers shows that the...
Anne Taylor-Vaisey has noted some articles that may be of interest to Capsules readers...
I'm sad to say that Chris Pentz, of the Pentz Group Communications, is not faring well in her fight with bladder cancer, despite her surgery in January. Chris has been an invaluable resource for Medical Meetings, a speaker at our Pharmaceutical...
That's the contention of this editorial in the New York Times. Daniel Carlat, a professor at Tufts Medical School and the editor in chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report, writes that physicians are being paid to bash trazodone, which went off...
According to the Jamaica Observer, 60 percent of Jamaica's doctors didn't renew their licenses. The reason? They didn't complete their CME requirements. From the article...
That's the conclusion of Off-label Prescribing Among Office-based Physicians, published in the May 8 edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers " used nationally representative data from the 2001 IMS Health National Disease and...
You no doubt by now have heard about the accusation that Pfizer experimented on children in Nigeria in 1996 to test its experimental antibiotic during a Nigerian meningitis epidemic. John Mack at Pharma Marketing has an interesting take on the...