I just got a note from a medical education coordinator at a community hospital whose director has tasked him with identifying three ways (besides paper survey, or verbal post-conference survey), to obtain physician feedback regarding the CME...

Leave it to Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, among other great books, to see parallels between PitBulls and prescription drugs. Here's the link, and here's a snip...

There's a bill pending in California, called the Access, Compassion, Care, and Ethics for Seriously Ill Patients Act, that would allow the marketing of drugs based on Phase I trial results and nonhuman studies for seriously ill patients. In a...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This lecture by Dr. Jean Gray was presented to the Canadian Society for Clinical Pharmacology: ...

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Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is another article on the retraction of articles, from the April 18 Annals of Internal Medicine...

That'd be for continuing medical marijuana education, according to this site, which discusses a conference on just that topic held earlier this month at Santa Barbara Community College. And it sounds like it was accredited, too. Can you have off...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Braido F, Popov T, Ansotegui IJ, Gayraud J, Nekam KL, Delgado JL et al. Continuing Medical Education: an international reality. Allergy 2005; 60(6):739-742...

The University of Kentucky College of Medicine Department of Family and Community Medicine scored a $362,000 grant from the Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Grant Program to develop activities to help both physicians and consumers make...

There's an interesting article in the Boston Phoenix by David Bernstein that examines the relationship between physicians and their organizations, the pharmaceutical industry, research, and how that research is disseminated. One snip...