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.
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the January/February 2005 issue of Australian Family Physician. Free full text is available.Allan JA, Schaefer D, Stocks N. Improving the learning needs survey by using four approaches. Aust Fam...
File this one under "really bad idea": Organon freaked out some Dutch gynocologists--and, more importantly, their spouses--by sending them anonymous Valentines that said, "Now, shall we tell everyone?" Of course, it was to promote a new product...
A reminder fromAnne Taylor-Vaisey ... The submission deadlines for RIME, CACHE, and RICME & Best Practices have all passed. Today is the dealine for submission of educational abstracts for the 2006 Alliance for CME conference...
Pharma and biotech meeting planners may find a new wrinkle in their work as more jobs begin to be "offshored" to places like India and China, according to this article in the New York Times (free registration req'd). While the number of jobs going...
I just read a review of Marcia Angell s book, The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It in Health Affairs that suggests perhaps Angell is a little harsh on pharma, particularly the R&D economics. ...
