IN LA HABRA, Calif., on the Los Angeles — Orange County border, a new conference facility has opened. The Barnett Center, which is part of the headquarters for the Institute for Healthcare Advancement, features a 184-seat auditorium with theater...
“WHEN PEOPLE SAY CME doesn't work and we have to reposition it, I always say hogwash — we've always known what works,” says CME veteran Sue Ann Capizzi. “What works is sitting down with a physician, analyzing his or her particular needs...
ONCE YOUR ORGANIZATION has created a new vision and developed strategies to achieve it, it's time to plan how that vision will be communicated. In most CME units, this new vision will require the staff to do new and different work, such as moving...
TWO YEARS AGO, our strategic partner, Axdev Global, an educational company in Norfolk, Va., told me that return on investment is only a tangential concept in CME; but what we can demonstrate is return on educational investment. Now with the PhRMA...
If today's jobless economic recovery is hitting a little too close to home for comfort, you're probably wondering where all the jobs went...
A COMPELLING WEB SITE has become very important in promoting and supporting your meetings. Here's my list of the five most important things to do on your meeting Web page...
Kathleen Johnson, EdM, has joined the American College of Surgeons in Chicago as its first manager of national and regional skills centers, experiential learning program. She had been manager, accreditation services, for the Accreditation Council...
IT HAS BECOME relatively common for corporate procurement departments to get involved with site selection in their role overseeing meeting and event contracting. What's unusual — but becoming less so — is for procurement to drive the entire bid...