This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the January/February 2005 issue of Australian Family Physician. Free full text is available.Allan JA, Schaefer D, Stocks N. Improving the learning needs survey by using four approaches. Aust Fam...

File this one under "really bad idea": Organon freaked out some Dutch gynocologists--and, more importantly, their spouses--by sending them anonymous Valentines that said, "Now, shall we tell everyone?" Of course, it was to promote a new product...

A reminder fromAnne Taylor-Vaisey ... The submission deadlines for RIME, CACHE, and RICME & Best Practices have all passed. Today is the dealine for submission of educational abstracts for the 2006 Alliance for CME conference...

This post courtesy ofAnne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is the ...

Pharma and biotech meeting planners may find a new wrinkle in their work as more jobs begin to be "offshored" to places like India and China, according to this article in the New York Times (free registration req'd). While the number of jobs going...

I just read a review of Marcia Angell s book, The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It in Health Affairs that suggests perhaps Angell is a little harsh on pharma, particularly the R&D economics. ...

Here's a sneak peek of one piece of Medical Meetings' coverage of the Alliance meeting, to be published in the March/April issue: ...

I just heard from Shannon Peryea, an executive recruiter who has openings in medical education andd pharmaceutical advertising in New York City and state, New Jersey, Illinois, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. ...

My friend Michele Wiergac wrote this article about the value of informal networks. But why is it that, when a CME provider tries to incorporate special interest groups into an event, either online or live, they often don t succeed in creating...

A quick snip from an article in the Harvard Business School Working Knowledge report: "Health care and the Internet are well-matched for each other, quipped one panelist at the IS2K conference, 'because no one wants to pay for either.'" I'd say...