Now that more than one in eight people in the United States are of Hispanic origin, according to the data from the 2002 U.S. Census, many physicians find themselves struggling to communicate with an ever-increasing Spanish-speaking portion of...

Building on its series of reports and recommendations for improving the quality of healthcare, the Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C., has released Health Professions Education, A Bridge to Quality. The report starts with the premise that...

Telenursing—in which nurses deliver, manage, and coordinate patient care and services via telecommunication technology—is one of the fastest growing areas in healthcare. That’s why the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing, Pitman, N.J., now...

While the first half of 2003 wasn’t so great for some, several nursing association annual conventions said they’re doing just fine, thank you. For example, the Dermatology Nurses Association’s Annual Convention this March got its best attendance...

MM'S EDITOR TAMAR HOSANSKY and I got to talking about gender in CME a few years back and, being the information junkies we are, we started nosing around to see what the research said about the topic. Funny thing was, we couldn't find a whole lot...

STRICTER VISA regulations, terrorism threats, and other crises, have been making it more difficult for overseas healthcare professionals to attend U.S. medical meetings. But the American Academy of Family Physicians has a powerful ally in its bid...

LAST SUMMER, when the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America issued its Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, there was some grumbling that medical device companies were still off the hook when it came to wooing docs...

Talk about perseverance. Betsy Bondurant, CMP, associate director, meeting planning and trade show, for Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., spent a fitful five years building the case for a corporate-mandated process by which meetings are sourced and...

“THERE'S NO TURNING BACK NOW. It's another world,” says Steve Passin, president, Steve Passin & Associates, LLC, a CME consulting firm in Newtown Square, Pa. He's talking about the effects of recent regulatory changes — the Pharmaceutical...