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.
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This article on workplace learning and CME was published in last Thursday‘s BMJ. It is part of a series entitled ABC of Health Informatics, which will be published as a book by Blackwell Publishing in...
The seemingly incessant reports about the pharmaceutical industry are starting to hurt their bottom lines, according to this article in the New York Times...
So, is this a conflict of interest that's resolved? The FDA's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs, Scott Gottlieb, will not take part in some aspects of the Bush Administration's bird flu planning "because his past consulting...
This just in: ACCME has posted new Frequently Asked Questions related to appropriate management of commercial support and ACCME's expectations of CME providers and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act: ...
I recently received a note from a Middle-Eastern pharmacist who is looking for a job description for a hopsital pharmaceutical planner. If anyone has this and is willing to share (anonymously is fine), please drop me an e-mail.
I just ran across this article about the JUVA MediSpa, where you can get medical treatments that probably do more than your usual facial would to get rid of wrinkles and age spots. It sounds like they're into keeping their staff up to date...
I just got a note from a reader who's new to the medical communications world and is wondering if any MECCs might be willing to share the form they use for clients requesting CME credit for an activity, or if they even use a form for this. ...
I just finished writing up the AAFP-No Free-Lunch flap up for the December issue of Medical Meetings, but this Times article has a pretty good outline of the whole gifts-to-physicians issue. Here's their bit about No Free Lunch and AAFP...
