THE ALL-EXPENSES PAID trips to resorts in Puerto Rico and Florida for doctors and their spouses, including cruises, spa treatments, cash payments, and other perks — were organized by Parke-Davis under the guise of advisory board, consultant, and...
Getting the ear of physicians has always been a challenge for pharmaceutical firms, but in the last year or so, it's amounted to running the gantlet...
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...