GlaxoSmithKline is planning to use its entire 8,000-person U.S. sales force as a public relations team (free subscription req'd). What could possibly go wrong...
I recently came across a study that finds that surveys that have a Post-it note attached get better response rates than those that are sent out unadorned. Interesting! I wonder if anyone has used this idea for post-activity surveys, and if so, if...
Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is a new commentary by Lawrence W. Green, one of the originators of the PRECEDE/PROCEED model, a framework for the process of systematic development and evaluation of health education programs...
According to USA Today, nine states—including my home state of Massachusetts—are considering legislation that would require closer scrutiny of all pharma gifts to physicians. Massachusetts is taking it a step further, with a proposal to ban all...
Homeland Defense Journal's Medical Aspects of Disaster Management Conference sounds like a good one for CME professionals to attend. According to a press release, ...
A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology bolsters the importance of reflection to learning and retaining what you learn—at least, it does if you're a rat, according to this article in the Boston Globe. The researchers found that...