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.
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This book by Richard Gunderman was just reviewed in the November 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. I looked around and found some more reviews of the book: ...
According to the New York Times, the new head of Pfizer plans to lay off almost 2,400 of its sales force. Could this be good news for CME funding, or just an overall cutback now that they don't have quite as much to sell as they used to? The...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: A colleague just brought to my attention the June 2006 issue of Social Science and Medicine . This issue contains a special section on evidence-based medicine. Have a look at the abstracts and links for the section's nine...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the December 2006 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine: Cooper RJ, Gupta M, Wilkes MS, Hoffman JR. Conflict of interest disclosure policies and practices in peer-reviewed biomedical journals. J Gen Intern...
According to this press release, Pri-Med has completed an enormous outcomes study that found that 99 percent of those surveyed said they were using the education they received to "change or refine their approach to patient care" six weeks post-CME...
The Medical Science Liaison Institute is organizing its first "Executive Program" in the spring of 2007 through a newly established MSL University. The meeting is open to senior-level pharma executives, including VPs, directors, and managers. The...
Check this one out from the Annals of Internal Medicine: Pay-for-Performance and Accountability: Related Themes in Improving Health Care. From the article...
The good news, for me, is that I just got a promotion—I will be the new editor of Association Meetings, a magazine I have always found to be fascinating, in a field that's also fascinating. So many new things to explore...
