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While this discussion focuses mainly on whether medical schools should teach about alternative medicine, the questions raised also apply to continuing education. I can see a legitimate need for teaching about what works and what doesn't, how some...

According to BBC News, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has updated its code of practice to limit gifts to physicians, from eliminating promotional competitions and quizzes to limiting air travel for sponsored delegates at...

A bit of aural fun from Capsules co-blogger Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

Finally, after years of talking about it, The Professional Meeting Planners Network is designing a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners. Here's some of the writeup I did about it for our December issue (which...

While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...

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This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: I thought this article from the AMA might be of general interest ...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This article on workplace learning and CME was published in last Thursday‘s BMJ. It is part of a series entitled ABC of Health Informatics, which will be published as a book by Blackwell Publishing in...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: ...