...get a life. Here I am in beautiful San Francisco on a Saturday night, and I'm sitting in a hotel room typing up notes. Is that pathetic or what?? I have one more session to write up, but I think I'm going to call it quits for the night—my brain...

This is such an important topic for CME providers that I hope the Alliance gives it a marathon of its own next year. Now that New Jersey and California have rules mandating some form of cultural competency training for healthcare workers in place...

That's right, this morning was a three-hour, 45-minute, no-break marathon on everything you wanted to know about commercial support, but never had the opportunity to ask. Led by moderator Lawrence Sherman, who I just learned today has left Jobson...

This has nothing to do with CME, but I thought it was fascinating: HomeWeb game provides breakthrough in predicting spread of epidemics...

I've been told that I can't write anything about this session without running it past the American Medical Association first, but from what I heard, most of the updates to the system have to do with protecting the AMA's intellectual property and...

This turned out to be a really interesting session. Brooke Johnson, Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education, walked us through a pilot study she conducted to determine what physicians, residents, and pharmacists know about what's appropriate...

Here's another case from the session on preventing the appearance of bias...

I missed some of the beginning stuff in this session, like the definition of speakers bureau and the regulations that affect speakers bureaus (I came in just as Debra Gist, consultant, was finishing up on the regs part and was recommending that...

This free-for-all, no-holds-barred CME provider/industry dialogue, led by Maureen Doyle-Scharff of Abbott Laboratories and Mike Saxton with Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was pretty lively, to say the least. It was pretty much all a back-and-forth between...

Here's another avoiding the appearance of commercial bias case, from the session on Thursday...