Last January, the draft version of the proposed new Accreditation Council for CME Standards for Commercial Support was released, generating widespread concern in the CME community. After gathering comments, the ACCME went back to the drawing board...

The final version of the AdvaMed Code of Ethics on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals — a voluntary code for members of Washington, D.C.-based Advanced Medical Technology Association, a medical device company association — went through...

Continuing medical education initiatives can improve patient care, change physician practice behavior, and reduce costs. But to achieve these goals, CME providers need to look outside the traditional models. A case in point is the Buffalo Niagara...

WHETHER YOU NEED to re-engineer your office to address future continuing medical education opportunities, assure regulatory protection for your CME unit and its organization, avoid marginalization of your CME function in the overall organization...

SOME CME PROFESSIONALS have suggested that continuing education speakers should be disqualified based on the perception that their relations with commercial supporters constitute a conflict of interest. Now the difficult-to-measure concept of...

IF YOU'VE BEEN planning CME activities for any time at all, you have no doubt heard of linkage — linking needs to results, linking needs and results to learning objectives, and linking needs, results, and objectives to outcomes. It's at the core...

“SHOW ORGANIZERS CALL us pirates and bandits. That's OK,” says Bruce Peterson, president of Las Vegas-based Events Plus Travel. His destination management company has come under fire recently for allegedly “poaching” attendees and exhibitors away...

The International Association of Conference Centers is launching a third-party facility-inspection program, IACC president Geoff Lawson announced last week at the organization's "State of the Industry" presentation in New York City. Ever since...

Gary Pugatch, director of resort marketing for the Sea Pines Co. on Hilton Head Island, died of a heart attack on Friday, November 7. He was 48. Prior to joining Sea Pines Company, Pugatch was vice president, meetings & conventions for the...

The more than 500 physicians who attended the Vascular Interventional Advances Conference in October at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas got some very interactive learning experiences, thanks to computers in the lecture hall. Among...