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.
Last week, I mused a bit about mandatory CME and outcomes measurement. Today, thanks to a very nice reader, I read "No to Mandatory Continuing Education, yes to mandatory practice auditing and professional education development," which may be...
I couldn't believe it when I saw this article on the front page of today's Boston Globe: Psychiatry funding questioned: Drug firms aid Mass. General. But it's a relatively upside article, even with quotes from Arnold Relman about how drug money...
The New Yorker magazine ran an excellent article a little while back by Jerome Groopman on how medical simulators are changing the way doctors are trained. It's long, but it's a very well-written look at how this technology is changing things for...
I've been doing a lot of thinking about New Jersey's new mandatory cultural competency training, and about mandatory CME in general. While I laud the intent to improve healthcare workers' cultural competency, how on earth are we supposed to know...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Table of contents for the May 14 BMJ Here's one I want to read: Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet, Jonathan D. Wren, BMJ 2005-1128 (
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This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Research Question: On-line interactive learning: What are physicians' perspectives of it? Is it effective? ...
You canregister online now for the 16th Annual Conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 in Baltimore--if you register before Sept. 1, you get the early-bird discount...