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.
From Electric News: Surgeons in a spat: Those in private practice upset over proposal to keep a log of the number of operations they perform. A snip...
It looks like the University of Toronto is doing just what we want to do at Medical Meetings' Web site: Create e-accessible tools for "knowledge translation programs," which I'd just call CME for our purposes. Here's a link to the page. (Thanks to...
Some interesting reading from Pharma Marketing News: Compliance with (Some) CME Rules Not So Easy (it's on page 2 of the pdf). Not to be snarky, but, duh. It says, from the pharma perspective, disclosure and resolution of conflicts of interest are...
Frederic S. Wilson, Category Manager CME, with a Research-based Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, left this rebuttal in the comments to this post about a very negative view of the CME-pharma connection. I have his permission to post it again here, in...