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...

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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...

WHAT'S NEW ...

New and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in meeting planning and commercial support. You've told us that it would be valuable to have a forum where you could openly discuss your challenges with your colleagues — and share...

THIS IS MORE than an idle question, especially after the recent Alliance for CME meeting in Atlanta where the issue of whether CME providers should be certified was mentioned on a number of occasions. With an eye toward moving “mentioned on a...

A Doctor's House Call ...

“EVERYONE'S AFRAID,” says Janice Miller, director, CME, Brown Medical School, Providence, R.I. “Pharmaceutical companies have their legal departments working overtime to protect themselves from the threat of a huge, multibillion-dollar fine. I don...

RECENT CHANGES in security measures for foreign visitors have the potential to affect international meetings held in the United States. A new program called US-VISIT was implemented at 115 airports and 14 major seaports on January 5, 2004. The new...

ALMOST 15 YEARS have elapsed since the FDA caught the attention of the CME world with its proposed draft guidance on regulation of commercially supported educational activities. The fear of government involvement became a rallying point for many...