An update on this post about Maryland physician and high-ranking Medicare officia, Sean Tunis' faking his CME records. According to the Baltimore Sun, Tunis ...
I guess I'm not alone in loving physician bloggers (for some of my favorites, check the list on the right): There's an interesting article in the LA Times about the phenomenon. These personal glimpses into what docs and other healthcare providers...
This dovetails so well with the current push in CME for team-based training: reverse mentoring, where a person higher in the hierarchy is taken under the wing of someone further down the ladder. The example in the article is at a pharmaceutical...
There's a very interesting article in Slate.com called, Spin Doctors: How drug companies keep tabs on physicians. It takes you through how weekly prescriber reports are created, and how companies use these reports to learn what each doc in a...
According to the Seattle Times, physicians are being wooed by Wall Street as well as pharma. While this probably won't have much impact on CME, I find it an, um, interesting trend. A snip: ...
AFTER 10 YEARS of attending Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME meetings at the Alliance for CME annual conference, Maureen Doyle-Scharff, director, professional services and medical education, Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Columbus...