The Alliance for CME just announced that you can pre-order the 4th Edition of the Best Practices ($90.00 + $20.00 Priority Shipping & Handling for members; $105.00 + $20.00 priority shipping & handling for nonmembers.) ...

The honor goes to Clifford Kalb, who was just hired as vice president of market development for Life Sciences with Wood Mackenzie, a provider of global life sciences information. According to a press release, Kalb will not just lead the...

While e-education is getting hotter all the time for some types of adult learners, docs still don t like to get their continuing medical education online, according to the second annual Pri-Med CME Insight Survey. Even with a 25 percent growth in...

That s the name of one of the songs by Dr. Sam and The Frivolous Action Blues Band, whose CDs would make great giveaways for a physician meeting--or any event whose partipants are into healthcare issues. Physician Sam Bierstock has been...

I hope you like the latest addition to Medical Meetings. I'll try to round up the latest news and information about the medical education industry and post it here as often as possible--hopefully daily. ...

Are there differences in learning preferences among doctors in various specialties? That's the question that researchers from the University of Toronto set out to discover in a study whose results were discussed at the CME Congress 2004, held May...

I've heard about a disturbing development: Several pharmaceutical companies may stop their funding of CME because of the current regulatory environment. According to The New York Times, just about every major pharmaceutical company has received...

NOW THAT YOU'VE experienced little victories in moving your CME organization to its desired vision, it's time to develop momentum toward achieving your organizational, strategic goals. Harvard business professor John Kotter suggests three steps...

I WALKED AWAY from this year's CME Congress in Toronto with 35 pages of single-spaced typed notes, a stack of handouts, and a head stuffed to bursting. The ideas, the research, it all was fascinating — and I can't remember the last time I went to...

According to a nationwide study released recently by the Pri-Med Institute, Boston, effective CME can cause significant shifts in the clinical practice behavior of primary care physicians, especially in treating conditions for which guidelines for...