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.
What do you do when your faculty member is clueless about conflict of interest? To help you take leadership and solve real-world CME problems, we've set up a special online educational resource just for you...
THERE WAS A NEAR TRAGEDY in my town recently. A school district bus driver picked up an 11-year-old severe-special-needs student, then forgot to deliver him to the extended care center where he attends school. Instead, she parked the bus in the...
More than 20 years ago, Anthony Jannetti — founder of Anthony J. Jannetti Inc., a Pitman, N.J.-based full-service association management, marketing, and publishing company that serves the healthcare and specialty nursing association markets —...
ARGUABLY THE BIGGEST issue meeting professionals face these days is attrition and its accompanying penalties, which can add up to thousands — even hundreds of thousands — of dollars, in some cases. Even meeting planners book outside the block —...
Virtually no other country regulates CME as heavily as the United States. While some countries have rules similar to those of the United States, others have little or no controls in place at all. And the attitude toward commercial supporters'...
The Accreditation Council for CME is not the only organization suggesting that regulations regarding CME presenters' financial ties to pharmaceutical companies should be strengthened. The American Society of Clinical Oncology has changed its rules...
NOTHING IS MORE DISAPPOINTING than working for months (or years!) to put together a fantastic meeting with top-notch speakers, breakthrough lectures, and record attendance, only to see it overshadowed with front page press coverage about how your...
M. Steven Grant didn't want to continue working as a sales manager for health maintenance organizations when he moved to Hawaii last year, but he did want to stay connected to healthcare. So he decided to start up Medical Destination Hawaii, a...
PITTSBURGH'S NEW David L. Lawrence Convention Center is not one of the centers opening across the country with little business booked. Although the grand opening gala took place September, the center had been hosting groups since March, even...
The Convention Industry Council's Project Attrition, a national, two-phase project launched by CIC this year, is researching the scope and size of the attrition problem, attendee behavior and motivators to book outside the block, and the role of...
