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.
When Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, took over as executive director of the Alliance for CME in 1996, all the organization owned were two file cabinets, a desk, a Mac computer, and some odds and ends. The Alliance had just moved from Chicago to Birmingha...
When done properly, international CME and other medical education activities can help share knowledge, foster cross-cultural understanding, and improve the care of patients around the world. But those of us who have attempted international medical...
It hasn't been easy to let go of the old days when docs would flock to junket-like meetings for the wining, dining, golfing, and gift-giving. Not for the pharmaceutical industry, which lost an easy way to get on the doctors' good sides. Not for...
The big buzz from the American Society of Association Executives and The Center for Association Leadership at its 2006 Annual Meeting and Exposition, held August 19 to 22 at the Boston Convention and Exposition Center, was the release of 7...
