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.
Groups that market heavily via fax breathed a sigh of relief in mid-August when the Federal Communications Commission postponed until January 2005 its hastily implemented and restrictive regulations regarding unsolicited fax transmissions. They...
EACH PHASE of the ongoing effort to perfect CME and its rules of governance creates subject areas that stir debate. Early on we were captivated by a new lexicon of terms such as independence, objectivity, balance, bias, and scientific rigor. More...
BEFORE PREPARING our panel presentation on dealing effectively with the media for the Center for Business Intelligence's CME conference in June (see cover story, page 32), my fellow panelists and I e-mailed participants and asked what questions...
WITH PHARMACEUTICAL company dollars going into continuing medical education reaching more than $700 million in 2002 (see Data Report, page 11), it should be no surprise that federal scrutiny of how those dollars are spent is also on the rise...
IN MAY OF 2003, the New Jersey-based print and Internet publication MD Net Guide (www.mdng.com) inaugurated a new kind of award for online achievement: the Netties, more formally known as the “MD Net Guide Awards for Excellence on the Medical...
It’s hard to say what message the World Health Organization was trying to send when it had every participant at its spring annual assembly in Geneva submit to SARS screening by nurses wearing lab coats and rubber gloves. The gesture underscored...
