The Meeting Professionals International Professional Education Conference/North America, held from February 2 to 4 at the Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center in Kissimmee, Fla., and at Walt Disney World Resort, may have stressed leadership...

HERE'S MY QUESTION: If the Accreditation Council for CME released its draft revision of the Standards for Commercial Support in order to gather feedback at the Alliance for CME annual conference, why wasn't there more opportunity for debate...

The MPI Foundation announced in January that it has launched an online forum to “promote and expand business among multicultural markets; educate meeting professionals about multiculturalism; and unveil research and demographics for untapped, yet...

Report from the Alliance for CME Annual Conference ...

Joan V. Garcia has been named vice president, medical communications at PGI MedCom, the Medical Communications division of PGI, an event and communications company based in Washington, D.C. Garcia has been involved in medical education and...

Currently, there is no mandatory certification for doctors to practice in any countries in South America. This means that a high percentage of doctors do not update their knowledge after they finish their medical school or post-graduate training...

“I BELIEVE THAT MEETINGS, because they promote the free exchange of information, are absolutely critical to our suc cess as a country. For that reason alone, I think membership in associations should be tax-deductible.” ...

It will come as no surprise to pharmaceutical meeting planners that ethical issues are driving corporate training trends. “With the new focus on the pharmaceutical/doctor relationship [a result of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of...

AS MEETING PLANNERS, we spend most of our days planning, promoting, and executing complex meetings. And most of us are very good at what we do. We negotiate killer deals on venues, we recruit stunning speakers, we bring together hundreds or even...

AS I WAS RESEARCHING this issue's cover story on measuring outcomes for CME, I got to wondering what organizers of conferences for CME providers and meeting planners in general were doing to measure the impact of their education on the real-life...