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.
Worst year ever. That’s how a lot of hotel industry observers are looking back at 2009. Just consider the stats. Revenue per available room was down 17 percent to $53.71, occupancy dropped 9 percent to 55 percent, and average daily rate decreased...
I went to this one to see what people are actually doing in terms of CME in Second Life, which I had jumped into a couple of years ago and have kind of backed off of in the past year or two. It has a lot of potential, but I think the drawbacks are...
Organizations are like battleships: They are complex, have lots of moving parts, and it takes considerable time and effort to turn them around. But it can be done using CME, said David Price, MD, and George Mejicano, MD, in a session this morning...
I don't know if he was really going fast or if my brain was starting to clog up by the last session this afternoon, but I had a hard time keeping up with this one and know I can't do it any kind of justice until the slides are available. There was...
The presenter of this session was terrific; very down-to-earth and realistic about what a commercial supporter expects, wants, and sometimes doesn't get when it comes to proposed budgets and reconciling after the fact. A lot of it comes down to...
I loved that the panel of pharma folks decided to do this session a little differently. They each took on a role as legal, education, or medical, for either Company A or Company B, then role-played how a grant review committee meeting for various...
The bottom line, according to three pharma panelists, is don't do it. Don't let your requests for support mingle educational grants with charitable contributions and exhibits. Tease out the different requests and send them to the appropriate...
The medical education theater session was nothing short of awesome, though at first I wasn't sure where it was going. Presenter Richard Aghababian, MD, started by taking a hard look at where we're at when it comes to establishing and monitoring...
The 175 attendees at the recent joint summit between the Institute for Supply Management and National Business Travel Association were the elite few taking the leap into not only managing their companies' business travel but also getting their ar...
Went to one of the new "transitions" sessions this morning. This one was about "reinventing yourself," or how to deal with downsizing, new career twists, and other changes. It was pretty general advice, not specific to CME providers, though the...
