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.
As CMI pointed out recently, the trend toward companies using preferred vendors is alive and well. To prove the point, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly has officially joined the preferred hotels crowd. According to the BTN article: "Major...
St. Jude Medical, a global cardiovascular device company, had a problem it had to distribute educational documents to its 1,000 field personnel within 60 days to meet specific regulatory requirements. So they took to the Web, using the IntraLearn...
The 11th annual National Health Information Awards Program proved to be a big boost for the medical education Web site VirtualProstate.com, a site developed by Rockpointe Corporation that serves as a resource for doctors to learn more about...
The Alliance for CME just announced that you can pre-order the 4th Edition of the Best Practices ($90.00 + $20.00 Priority Shipping & Handling for members; $105.00 + $20.00 priority shipping & handling for nonmembers.) ...
The honor goes to Clifford Kalb, who was just hired as vice president of market development for Life Sciences with Wood Mackenzie, a provider of global life sciences information. According to a press release, Kalb will not just lead the...
While e-education is getting hotter all the time for some types of adult learners, docs still don t like to get their continuing medical education online, according to the second annual Pri-Med CME Insight Survey. Even with a 25 percent growth in...
That s the name of one of the songs by Dr. Sam and The Frivolous Action Blues Band, whose CDs would make great giveaways for a physician meeting--or any event whose partipants are into healthcare issues. Physician Sam Bierstock has been...
I hope you like the latest addition to Medical Meetings. I'll try to round up the latest news and information about the medical education industry and post it here as often as possible--hopefully daily. ...
Are there differences in learning preferences among doctors in various specialties? That's the question that researchers from the University of Toronto set out to discover in a study whose results were discussed at the CME Congress 2004, held May...
I've heard about a disturbing development: Several pharmaceutical companies may stop their funding of CME because of the current regulatory environment. According to The New York Times, just about every major pharmaceutical company has received...
