When the American College of Emergency Physicians opened its 2006 Scientific Assembly on October 15 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, it was meeting in a facility where just months before emergency physicians had still been...
Industry-Funded CME activities continue to focus on arming physicians with the latest scientific research data regarding novel, often expensive, diagnostic and treatment approaches. However, physicians may fail to translate that information into...
Professional attendance at healthcare meetings has climbed 13.8 percent compared to five years ago, according to a new study by the Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association...
Despite dire predictions that pharmaceutical companies' commercial support of CME would shrink or evaporate entirely, a study conducted by Cutting Edge Information, Research Triangle Park, N. C., shows that funding is on the rise. Released in...
More choices, more pressures. With the introduction over the past few years of Internet point-of-care and performance improvement activities, physicians' menu of methods for obtaining CME credits has grown larger than ever. On the downside...
James Leist, EdD, will assume the position of interim executive director of the Alliance for CME on February 1, after the current executive director, Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, steps down. Leist currently serves as the Alliance's coordinator of...