“Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat.” Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary Americans view food in a whole new light. Chefs are stars, organic is in, and diets don't...
The litany of woes the pharmaceutical industry has been going through are seeming endless. While the lawyers won't let their company CME specialists speak to the press--even Medical Meetings, which is not out to do a hatchet job on them like the...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: ...
I just heard today that at least two medical societies have been doing something a little extreme with their exhibitors: Making them pay surcharges to serve cappuccino, espresso, or smoothies at their booths. This was supposedly a sponsorship...
This research session by Robert Morrow of the Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, at the SACME fall meeting was one of the best case studies I ve seen yet on how to do an intervention that works. I can t begin to go...
This presentation on the accuracy of physician self-assessment, given by Jocelyn Lockyer with the University of Calgary at the SACME fall meeting on Nov. 6 in Boston was right on target with the trend toward self-directed learning. As she said...
Joseph Luzi has been named executive vice President of the Institute for Advanced Health Education (Institute), an "accredited provider of solutions that facilitate continuing medical education (CME) courses and credits for professionals in the...