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.
Gaylord Entertainment Co. has announced plans to buy the Westin La Cantera Resort in San Antonio, double its room count, and rebrand it under the Gaylord flag...
When Barbara Dunlavey became executive director at the Biomedical Engineering Society two years ago, there was no meeting budget or system to track expenses, let alone a strategy to reduce costs. That would soon change. Dunlavey developed a...
More time, more money, more frustration. As CME providers know all too well, pharmaceutical companies' new grant application processes, created in response to the regulatory environment, have made it much more difficult to get commercial support...
The buzz at the Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held in October, was all about the FAQ document the Accreditation Council for CME released less than a week before the meeting. The guidelines in...
To strengthen CME's credibility in the face of increasing government, public, and media scrutiny, CME professionals must demonstrate their competence in developing effective and independent programs. That was one of the strong themes that emerged...