IN CASE YOU haven't noticed, the skills required for today's CME professionals are changing. The Accreditation Council for CME's Essential Areas, the updated Standards for Commercial Support, and the Office of Inspector General advisory suggest a...

THE 2004 SOCIETY for Academic CME Fall Meeting, November 5 to 7 in Boston, may have been relatively small, but it was powerful. One hundred fifteen participants gathered at the Hynes Convention Center to learn the latest on the Accreditation...

The Atlanta-based Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association this past fall officially came out against healthcare exhibition policies that require exhibitors to pay “sponsorship” fees for activities in their own booths, beyond the cost of...

WHEN I INTERVIEWED meeting industry veteran Mickey Schaefer, CAE, American Academy of Family Physicians, for the first installment in our series profiling women leaders in the medical meetings and CME professions, she said that her most important...

CME providers need to do more to increase the quality of their education and credibility with the government and the public, says a white paper issued by the Medical Education Collaborative in Golden, Colo. Drawing from interviews and discussions...