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.
I hadn't heard of Sinkie day before, (Sinkie=Standing In Nutritious Kitchens Ingesting Everything), but the day after Thanksgiving in the U.S. might as well be celebrated in style. So check out sinkie.com for letters from guilt-free Sinkies, how...
While this discussion focuses mainly on whether medical schools should teach about alternative medicine, the questions raised also apply to continuing education. I can see a legitimate need for teaching about what works and what doesn't, how some...
According to BBC News, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry has updated its code of practice to limit gifts to physicians, from eliminating promotional competitions and quizzes to limiting air travel for sponsored delegates at...
Finally, after years of talking about it, The Professional Meeting Planners Network is designing a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners. Here's some of the writeup I did about it for our December issue (which...
While talk of a certification program developed specifically for medical meeting planners has been circulating for years, the Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., decided in October to do more than talk. It is in the beginning...
