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.
Does anyone know of any literature/journal articles out there on the preferred format of learning for the different specialties? A reader just asked if I knew of any specific to Ob-Gyn docs, and I couldn't find anything on a quick search, so I...
I just now heard about this one: According to PharmaLive.com, Senators Chuck Grassley and Max Baucus (Senate Committee on Finance) have asked several big pharma companies to give them more info on educational grants--they're worried that the money...
Glad to see so many could make it to this week' s Grand Rounds! Since we couldn't get Richard Simmons to come in and do a quick exercise break, we' ll be following Dr. Emer's Fidget Your Way to Better Health program to keep us slim, trim, and...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: This thoughtful article about Google Scholar appears in the June 7 (current) issue of CMAJ. The author is Jim Henderson, director of the McGill University Medical Library. He is skeptical of the value of...
I always think of Johnson & Johnson as one of the good guys, so it was very disheartening to read this article in the New York Times (free reg. req'd): Lucrative Drug, Danger Signals and the F.D.A. about its heartburn drug, Propulsid. A snip...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2005 Jun;159(6):561-6: Continuing medical education in child sexual abuse: cognitive gains but not expertise.Botash AS, Galloway AE, Booth T, Ploutz-Snyder R, Hoffman-Rosenfeld J, Cahill L...
