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.
Here's a nice response to the criticism of commercially supported CME that was included in a story about the recent launch of a curricula-development company called Lighthouse Learning. Written by Frank Britt President and CEO M/C Holding Corp....
The flurry of comments on my recent column about climate change, “Opryland Under Water,” pointed to the communication pitfalls that await any meeting whose message runs too far out of control...
A lot has happened to the role of medical education companies since Rockpointe Corp. filed its incorporation papers on October 2, 1995. Once considered an integral part of a pharmaceutical company’s communications strategy, medical education...
Lighthouse Learning may have scored a first for a continuing medical education–related for-profit company: a front-page story in The Boston Globe on the company’s launch earlier this week. The source of its newsworthiness? The new company plans...
The Healthcare Convention and Exhibitors Association has compiled a list of the 50 largest medical conventions held in the United States last year, and the top 20 destinations for healthcare meetings in 2009...
In April, the federal government adopted new rules setting stiff penalties for airlines that strand passengers on the tarmac for more than three hours. This fall, the Department of Transportation may take its airline passenger protections several...
It was a little shocking to see this story on the launch of a new medical education company on the front page of today's Boston Globe. I'm trying to schedule an interview now with the person behind the launch -- Martin Samuels, MD, a neurologist...
...that they may not be disclosing fully. According to an article in today's Boston Globe, some researchers cross-referenced physician payment databases with journal article disclosures and found fewer than half of docs receiving $1 million or...
Over the last few days, I’ve been slowly returning to Earth after soaring through the innovative design and timely content of EventCamp Twin Cities, a hybrid meeting that brought 100 participants to Minneapolis September 9; with small groups of...
