We'd really like to start running Medical Meetings' "People in the News" section again, but we don't always hear about CME providers and pharmaceutical meeting planners who have landed new positions, received awards and honors, and all that good...
This is Medical Meetings' editor Tamar Hosansky's latest editorial, in which she calls for the formation of a government advocacy task force. I believe she's right, and can't help but wonder if anything is moving forward on this front. ...
After gaining provisional approval for accreditation from the Accredication Council for CME in 2003, CME Outfitters was re-surveyed and has been awarded accreditation with commendation for six years as a provider of continuing medical education...
Some of you may be familiar with Grand Rounds, a weekly roundup of the best of the medical blogosphere (I try to link to it when there's something CME-related in the mix). This post on Blogborigmi, Grand Rounds, brought to you by GlaxoSmithKline...
Thomas Van Hoof, MD, has been appointed associate dean of the Office of Continuing and Community Education at the Health Center at the University of Connecticut, and from this article, he sounds like the right person for the job...
To help patients achieve better outcomes when it comes to transplants, Interlink Health Services has an interesting business model, according to The Portland Business Journal: ...
And you thought it couldn't happen: Here's a story in the Triangle Business Journal about Scienta Healthcare Education, an accredited CME provider spun out from a communication company. And it's not about wrong-doing, or scandals, or influence...
This is worth finding out more about: According to the Center for Public Integrity, FDA Staff Travels on Drug Industry Dollars, Groups tied to FDA-regulated industry paying for agency officials' trips. From the site...