This afternoon I went to the pharmaceutical alliance for CME session at the Alliance for CME conference in San Francisco. It ended up being a focus group on how well the Alliance is serving this section of its membership, and what the PACME...

That's what a group of influential physicians are calling for in the Jan. 25 issue of JAMA, according to this article in Forbes. Among the things they're looking to ban...

According to this article on BTN online, higher hotel rates and airfares are causing cutbacks in secondary meeting expenses, including AV, food and beverage, and attendee gifts. From the article...

In case anyone was wondering why Capsules has been awfully quiet the past few weeks, I meant to tell you that I was going off on a much-needed vacation—10 days on a sailboat in the Caribbean was just what the doctor ordered! But three days after...

According to this article in the New York Times (free registration req'd), a whistleblower lawsuit filed by (of course) a former employee claims that the same sort of "bribery" and influence peddling the pharmaceutical industry has been accused of...

The AMA has made available its new AMA PRA Booklet for 2006, which has quite a few changes from the older version, I hear. I hope to learn more at the Alliance meeting in San Francisco this week. I also hope to see you all there!

M|C Communications, which produces the Pri-Med continuing medical education programs, has hired David Murphy to be vice president, account services. Before joining M|C Communications, he was a marketing director with biotech firm Genzyme. He'll be...

Having just come back from a bareboat sailing vacation in the Grenadines (aaah!), I like the concept behind this CME activity, a week-long program that "combines a complete sail or power certification course with 13 hours of CME credits relative...

Recommended reading from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here are the most frequently accessed articles from the September 2004-September 2005 editions of Academic Medicine: 1. Teaching Inpatient Communication Skills to Medical Students: An Innovative ...

According to this article in the Toronto Star, Ontario has a growing physician shortage it would like to fix. Among the incentives used by other areas in Canada, the article says, is having some provinces (Alberta and British Columbia) subsidize...