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.
My only concern about Chaminade was whether it would be too relaxing for the meeting I was to attend — I found myself dreaming of long walks on the nature trails and endless hours watching the view of Monterey Bay from the terrace overlooking the...
The complex web of CME is not easily reduced to one-size-fits-all regulations nor to a degree of exact specificity as might be applied to a mixture of chemicals. So it is with the April revision of the Standards of Commercial Support, which says...
Maybe it's because all four of my grandparents were immigrants, or maybe it's because I grew up in a neighborhood created for United Nations diplomats and their families, where I was surrounded by people from around the world — but anything that...
As we reported in the February 6 edition of MM's e-newsletter, Medical Meetings Extra, the issue of whether or not CME providers should be certified was a hot topic of discussion at this year's Alliance for CME annual meeting. A reader responded...
“When the new draft Standards for Commercial Support were released in April, they were greeted with a big sigh of relief from CME providers — make that a big sigh of relief and some yawns,” says Jack Kues, PhD, assistant dean for CME, University...
The definition of commercial interest in the new Standards has stimulated some debate. Standard 1.1 defines a commercial interest as any proprietary entity producing healthcare goods or services. Non-healthcare-related companies are exempt, as...
David Baldwin, MPA, has joined the Accreditation Council for CME in Chicago as manager of accreditation services. Baldwin most recently served as the manager of CME accreditation for the American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, Kan., where...
Until recently, the Internet has been the Wild West of the CME world. Lots of providers have stampeded the Web with online courses, but little had been done to measure their effectiveness in increasing physician knowledge or changing behaviors...
