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...

I just got an e-mail from someone with a question I can't answer about California Senate Bill 1765. Does this legislation apply to medical conventions held outside of the state of California where California healthcare professionals attend, or is...

I missed the beginning of this one, but what I experienced of the rest was terrific. Led by Carol Havens, MD, and Philip Bellman, MPH, both with Kaiser Permanente Northern California, they went through why good outcomes begin with good needs...

This followup to Wednesday's section meeting was pretty hot, seeing as it focused mainly on responding to the JAMA article about banning pretty much all industry involvement in academic medical settings. Everyone seemed to agree that some sort of...

Playing catchup this afternoon, yesterday's session by Karen Overstreet, EdD, Indicia Medical Education, and Jacqueline Parochka, EdD, Excellence in Continuing Education, on preventing the appearance of commercial bias, was mainly a series of...

E-venting has a great post about the various different types of blogs people are doing to support their meetings. For our Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum in March, I plan to do kind of a hybrid of all four types that he mentions—on-the-scene...

So much for good intentions. I ended up eating lunch at lunch, and not getting back to my room at breaks to catch up. So here I am, after a great dinner with even greater company at Finos, a nice Italian restaurant right around the corner from the...

Van Harrison, PhD, with the University of Michigan, kicked off this morning's plenary with a very fast look at a very complicated subject: using a systems-based framework in CME planning to enhance the translation of new knowledge. I'm not going...