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.
According to this article in The Sunday Times-Britain: "As some nurses have gained the power to decide which medicines patients receive on the NHS, they have become the target for drug firms keen to ensure their products are used." This includes...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is yet another article on developing reflection in practice. It's an interesting case study. Free full text is available. ...
OK, this is a little off-topic, but it's so funny I had to share: The Drugs I Need, a great little video spoofing DTC ads. The best is the disclaimers at the end--I almost fell off my chair laughing. ...
Today's my birthday--I just turned 45. Woo hoo! Then I saw this longevity game that Anne Taylor-Vaisey posted to her CE Current Awareness Yahoo Group, and just had to play. Despite my trepidations, it looks like I should make it to the ripe old...
Not long ago, I opined about the possibility of sales reps getting shut out of CME altogether due to today's harsh regulatory and legal environment. Now that so many reps have lost that "face time" they got with the docs through the old grant...
Maria at Intueri.org is now serving up a steaming helping of medical bloggery at this week's Grand Rounds. Check it out--she did an amazing job of it. And there's a lot of good dishes on the menu that are well worth a taste--and they won't cost...
This story just won't go away. Here are links to a couple more items about the Harvard study that found younger docs outperform their elders in some areas: ...