What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
Congratulations to Perry Pugno, MD, MPH, who is now vice president for education with the American Academy of Family Physicians. He'll be in charge of the organization's undergrad, resident, and CME efforts, leading a team of nearly 60 AAFP staff...
The American Board of Medical Specialties' white paper on CME for Maintenance of Certification just got a little more feedback from stakeholder communities. ...
If you know someone who is involved in global medical education and has something to crow about, why not submit their work for consideration for one of the Global Alliance for Medical Education awards? You may want to get started soon, though...
As promised, the Accreditation Council for CME has made good on the revisions to its complaints process it made last summer and has published a Complaints Process Web page, a compendium of blinded summaries from the complaints process, and an...
I love the way Frank J. Veith, MD, professor of surgery, Department of Surgery, NYU Medical Center, New York; and professor of surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, lays out the reasons why commercial support isn't actually the devil in this...
Check out this compilation of interviews and impressions from this year's Alliance for CME conference put together by Jonathan Marx of InQuill Medical Communications, LLC. I love that he did it as a multimedia presentation, though it does take a...
The job of a travel manager isn’t just to drive down business travel costs, but also to know how to use travel to drive top-line growth. That, according to Christa Degnan Manning, director, eXpert insights and research, Advisory Services, American...
With the release of the Convention Industry Council’s economic significance study, U.S. meeting professionals can confidently claim to be part of an industry that contributes more to the national economy than auto manufacturing...
Two years ago, meetings were under attack. While industry leaders were eager to defend face-to-face events, they had few hard facts with which to convince business executives and government officials of the bottom-line value of meetings. That won...
The Accreditation Council for CME is looking for input about its Web site as it begins a redevelopment it hopes will make the site more user-friendly, according to an e-mail I received recently. So if you have a few minutes (the info I got said it...
