Medical & Pharma Meetings

This sounds like an interesting article that addresses the non-clinical training needs of physicians, including management skills and CME planning...

Congratulations to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Central America, and Asia, on receiving two-year provisional accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Education.

There's lots of good stuff on the 46th edition of Grand Rounds, a sampling of the medical blogosphere. Some of my favorite tidbits this week...

I loved this article about physicians who got so sick of devices that didn't function well that they created their own—and got artistic enough about it that their work is landing in galleries as well as ERs.

Sure, we all like to talk about the new trend toward transparency in the corporate world, but when a company messes up, the old watch-your-back, cover-your-tush, and shift-the-blame-to-someone-else mindset tends to kick in. The bigger the mistake...

According to recently released reports from the National Hispanic Congress (2000), President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (2002) and Surgeon General (1999), Latinos are one of the most under-served populations in terms of behavioral...

I received the following in response to my "bad apples" editorial in the July/August issue of Medical Meetings about the potential impact of clinical trial data suppression and manipulation on CME. I have his OK to print it here...

I felt like I was tip-toeing through a minefield while writing True Lies, the cover story for the July/August issue of Medical Meetings. It's about all the chicanery we've been hearing about lately on the clinical trial level, and the p otential...

From PennStateLive: Penn State Hershey and Lewistown Hospital announce affiliation. "A key aspect to the affiliation is the collaboration in physician recruitment and improved continuing medical education opportunities for current medical personnel."

DCMilitary.com has an interesting article about RDML Carol Turner, who became the National Medical Education and Training commander June 17, and her impressions of med ed training in the U.S. Navy...