The quest for practice-based, evidence-based tools continues, and progress is being made, said director of the AMA s PRA policy Charles Willis at the SACME fall meeting, held Nov. 6 in Boston. Here s what s been happening. ...
According to this article in the New York Times, an ambitious plan by the National Institutes of Health and others could just revolutionize healthcare--including CME and pharma's role in education: ...
Kristine Rand with The France Foundation did a 10-minute presentation on the results of research she did on the immediate impact on knowledge gained through peer-to-peer CME dinner meetings at the SACME fall meeting in Boston. She used a dinner...
When I interviewed Mike Saxon, consultant and facilitator, CME Best Practices, for the December cover story of Medical Meetings (should be online next week), he said one of the main problems we face in trying to reform this industry from a vendor...
“Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat.” Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary Americans view food in a whole new light. Chefs are stars, organic is in, and diets don't...
The litany of woes the pharmaceutical industry has been going through are seeming endless. While the lawyers won't let their company CME specialists speak to the press--even Medical Meetings, which is not out to do a hatchet job on them like the...
I just heard today that at least two medical societies have been doing something a little extreme with their exhibitors: Making them pay surcharges to serve cappuccino, espresso, or smoothies at their booths. This was supposedly a sponsorship...
This research session by Robert Morrow of the Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at the SACME fall meeting was one of the best case studies I ve seen yet on how to do an intervention that works. I can t begin to go...