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: I wonder how much more can be written on this topic? Here's another article, from the November issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The November 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings contains four articles that "exhibit the types of medical education research that must continue in the future if we are to further improve 21st century medical...
This article on SiLive.com tells about how medical schools train docs on how to deal with pharmaceutical marketers—and I like the approach Mount Sinai is taking...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here's what's new in the literature:
New medical education journals
flawed NEJM MCQs
improved medical education teaching effectiveness
Remember when I mentioned that Medical Meetings Editor Tamar Hosansky will be receiving a 2007 President's Award from the Alliance for CME? I just found out last night that I'm up for one, too (an e-mail glitch kept me from seeing the original...
This article from Pharma Live about a survey of oncologists and urologists "reveals a lack of awareness and understanding of the clinical benefits of Combined Androgen Blockade (CAB) therapy for the management of advanced prostate cancer." Why is...
I just got a note from a hotel sales manager who wanted to unsubscribe from the weekly Capsules update because his responsibilities had shifted and he no longer served this market. I was so impressed that he read all the stuff here to better...
The Certified Medical Meeting Manager movement took another step forward this fall in the form of a completed pilot program, according to James Montague, president and CEO of PMPN, Durham, N.C., which created the CMMM program. PMPN offers a...
The Certified Medical Meeting Manager movement took another step forward this fall in the form of a completed pilot program, according to James Montague, president and CEO of PMPN, Durham, N.C., which created the CMMM program. PMPN offers a...