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.
Blogborygmi has some truly heart-wrenching posts (here and here) from healthcare workers who express what helping out in the Hurricane Katrina-affected areas was really like...
Remember the PharmFree movement I wrote about a while back? The program that encourages medical students not to accept gifts from pharmaceutical companies...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is an article by Michael Fordis and colleagues, from the current issue of JAMA. This is from the annual medical education issue, published every September...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Every year JAMA's first September issue is devoted to medical education. This year is no exception. Here is a sampling of titles...
Regulating Academic-Industrial Research Relationships -- Solving Problems or Stifling Progress?, from the New England Journal of Medicine, is a pretty interesting examination by author Thomas P. Stossel, M.D., of the "stark contrast between the...
A reader wrote to request that I ask you all what kinds of changes you've made to your activities files to handle the new Standards for Commercial Support's conflict of interest requirements. If you have any best practices to share, please e-mail...
I just spoke with Bernie Halbur at the Alliance for CME about the upcoming January conference in New Orleans, and they're still considering all their options: cancelling, moving it, or keeping it as is. Though I have to imagine that last option is...
