According to the results published in the February edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, a case-based online continuing medical education program helps community physicians better deal with the difficult problems posed by their...

M|C Communications, which includes Pri-Med's continuing medical education, has acquired Physician's Weekly, a multi-media company providing news and educational materials to both physicians and patients, the companies announced jointly in a press...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

A reader recently e-mailed me about how to find a speaker to address the topic of allowing family members to be present during codes and resuscitations. If anyone has any suggestions, please drop me an e-mail or leave a comment, and I'll pass the...

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The Alliance for Continuing Medical Education has made some changes to its procedures and policies for submitting abstracts for next year's Annual Conference, Improving Collaboration to Balance Stakeholder Interests, slated for Jan. 17-20, 2007 in...

We all know that pharma companies collect prescription data, but according to this article, one of the companies that collects this data for pharma, ImpactRX, goes a whole lot farther than most, if not all, other med trackers. The company provides...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the February 4 issue of The Lancet: Margery H Davis and Gominda G Ponnamperuma. Medical education research at the crossroads. The Lancet 2006; 367:377-378.

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey (who is SACME's Web editor)...

I ran into a couple of folks from the American Medical Association at the Alliance conference after I posted this item on their session, and they said it was fine after all to post about the policies they discussed at their session, as long as I...