What motivates your people? Incentive organizers can't know for sure, so they make educated guesses and fill reward catalogs with trips, electronics, appliances, tools, apparel, and luxury goods. There's nothing wrong with the system, but there is...
EVERYTHING'S OVERSIZED in the Lone Star state, including the Healthcare and Exhibitors Association 2004 Annual Meeting, which was held June 12 to 15 in Austin. A record 732 attendees came to Texas to learn, network, and celebrate their star power...
ONE OF THE most important aspects of the new Accreditation Council for CME Standards for Commercial Support is the requirement that “providers must have implemented a mechanism to identify and resolve all conflicts of interest prior to the...
ARE YOU A meeting planner who's been longing for a fresh East Coast destination with world-class everything: oceanfront hotel, golf, spa, beach, water activities, meeting facilities, dining, and sightseeing? Then you should check out The Sanctuary...
Last year at this time, Medical Meetings' sister magazine, Association Meetings, published the results of a groundbreaking salary survey that showed a huge wage gap between American men and women in the meeting planning industry. Well, folks...
A LEADING MEDICAL institution now requires 32 pages of explanatory notes and forms covering 18 distinct categories to validate its grand rounds CME activity. Perhaps this process is atypical, but it's more likely that it is typical of the burden...
Medical education and communication company representatives who attended a Monaco focus group (see main story this page) had other issues on their minds...
PROTECT FREEDOM OF THE PRESS The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ruled in September that journal publishers could not edit submissions from authors living in countries facing U.S. trade embargoes, because editing...
ON FLORIDA'S EMERALD Coast, the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort has undergone massive upgrades and changes since its acquisition in 1998 by Vancouver, B.C.-based Intrawest Corp. A new 18-hole course, The Raven, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr....