The American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., did something a little different this year with its eight-year-old Annual Clinical Focus educational initiative — it was done entirely through video-streaming on the Web. In previous years...

WHILE THERE IS nothing inherently wrong in developing CME activities supported by one company — and this funding model should and will continue — CME support by several companies elevates standards of independence, objectivity, and balance to a...

About 40 meeting professionals teed off in May at the third annual Meet the Greens Invitational Golf Classic and Marketplace. Hosted by the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, Sol Meliá Paradisus Puerto Rico, and the Westin Rio Mar Beach Golf Resort ...

YOU'VE HEARD OF eight-minute dating? Well, how about eight-minute networking? That's right, the philosophy behind speed dating is now making its way into the world of medical meeting networking sessions...

Next year, hotel contracts expire in several major cities. In Chicago; New York; Boston; Toronto; Honolulu; and Sacramento and Monterey, Calif., contracts are up at most of the major hotels, while contracts also expire for some hotels in...

I DIDN'T KNOW WHETHER to laugh, cry, or bang my head against the wall after most of the interviews I did for this issue's cover story (see page 38). Are we really looking at just a few bad apples, or has the whole barrel gone rotten on us when it...