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.
While the overall response to the new Standards has been very positive, there is one aspect that is generating concern among CME providers. Standard 4.5 says that a provider cannot use a commercial interest as the agent providing a CME activity to...
The Accreditation Council for CME's policy on the Internet states: “The accredited provider must be able to document that it owns the copyright for, or has received permissions for use of, or is otherwise permitted to use copyrighted materials...
Mexico City, El Presidente Intercontinental Hotel, March 11, 2004, 6 a.m. The ringing phone startled me out of a deep sleep. With the opening of the Foro Internacional Médico, the largest meeting of Spanish-speaking physicians in the world, so...
The pursuit of knowledge and the chance to meet with peers seem to be outweighing visa glitches and other obstacles for overseas doctors attending U.S. medical conferences. While many convention managers are complaining that more invasive security...
"The verb "resolve" could be the most challenging new requirement in the Standards," comment CME veterans Lewis A. Miller, MS, and Dennis K. Wentz, MD, in an e-mail statement. Their observation strikes at the core of the discussion surrounding the...
In Mexico's Riviera Maya, the strip of fast-developing coastline south of Cancun and north of the Mayan ruins at Tulum, the 446-room Iberostar Paraiso Lindo opened last November followed by the December opening of an adjacent convention center...
One of the most critical mistakes CME leaders can make is to think that they can implement change by themselves — you need a qualified team empowered to take action...
Apr 07, 2004
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings. We’ve heard from you that these changes are confusing and frustrating, especially since...
As you all know, new and forthcoming regulations are fueling dramatic changes in pharmaceutical companies’ procedures for funding CME and planning meetings. We’ve heard from you that these changes are confusing and frustrating, especially since...
In order to find the best vendors to handle the 1,300 meetings it holds each year, Schering-Plough Corp. now uses online reverse auctions. These are fixed-duration online bidding events in which multiple suppliers compete for a buyer’s business...
