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.
According to the “ACCME Annual Report Data 2002,” released earlier this summer, the CME business is still going strong. Total income for last year was almost $1.6 billion, a 14.5 percent increase over 2001; this is an even larger increase than was...
MEDIA FOCUS ON healthcare costs, quality issues, professional competence, and scrutiny of pharma's role in CME, together with the recent proliferation of rules and guidelines, make it all too clear that we must move beyond just providing CME...
AFTER MORE THAN TWO YEARS of construction, the newly expanded Oregon Convention Center in Portland opened in April. The facility has doubled in size, making it the largest in the Pacific Northwest, with 255,000 square feet of exhibit hall space...
RECENT CRIMINAL TRIALS, prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, have subpoenaed detailed records from CME providers and their medical education and communication companies (MECCs), and required testimony from executives from these...
The best of the convention bureau Web sites have evolved from mere one-dimensional reprints of city guides and fact sheets to searchable, downloadable, interactive tools allowing meeting planners to drill down to a wealth of city resources...
Most healthcare institutions now have some kind of cultural competency training through their human resources department, as well as customer relations training in the basics of communication and conflict resolution. Understanding cultural...
European countries are choosing continuing professional development, or CPD, rather than CME as their method for educating healthcare professionals. That was one of the major trends discussed at the eighth annual Global Alliance for Medical...
Amy Beaulieu, a meeting and event planner with the Midwest Bioethics Center in Kansas City, Mo., says her end-of-life-care national conference in June offered something a little different: A special reception included roundtables with...
Medical Meetings caught up with Colin C. Rorrie Jr., PhD, CAE, shortly after he was named president and CEO of Dallas-based Meeting Professionals International earlier this summer. Rorrie, who has spent the past 22 years with the American College...
