Medical & Pharma Meetings

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: ...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Google Scholar was launched last week, and already there has been a lot of reaction in the press to it.We can expect a lot more over the next few weeks. ...

At the SACME fall meeting Nov. 6 in Boston, the AMA s PRA policy head Charles Willis talked about the AMA s performance improvement pilot, which started in August 2001. The project s point is to find out how docs can efficiently and effectively...

The quest for practice-based, evidence-based tools continues, and progress is being made, said director of the AMA s PRA policy Charles Willis at the SACME fall meeting, held Nov. 6 in Boston. Here s what s been happening. ...

According to this article in the New York Times, an ambitious plan by the National Institutes of Health and others could just revolutionize healthcare--including CME and pharma's role in education: ...

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Kristine Rand with The France Foundation did a 10-minute presentation on the results of research she did on the immediate impact on knowledge gained through peer-to-peer CME dinner meetings at the SACME fall meeting in Boston. She used a dinner...

When I interviewed Mike Saxon, consultant and facilitator, CME Best Practices, for the December cover story of Medical Meetings (should be online next week), he said one of the main problems we face in trying to reform this industry from a vendor...

“Americans eat to live, Europeans live to eat.” Until recently, this snipe at our fast-food culture was fairly accurate. But today, growing ranks of ordinary Americans view food in a whole new light. Chefs are stars, organic is in, and diets don't...

The litany of woes the pharmaceutical industry has been going through are seeming endless. While the lawyers won't let their company CME specialists speak to the press--even Medical Meetings, which is not out to do a hatchet job on them like the...