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.
IN LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF., Montage Resort & Spa opened in February. The 262-room resort is sited on 30 beachfront acres, and offers a 20,000-square-foot spa, three swimming pools, and more than 20,000 square feet of indoor/outdoor meeting space...
IT'S 8 P.M. ON SUNDAY NIGHT, and my phone rings. It's from a CMEer who we will call Jim. Jim is running an activity on Monday but has no way to collect information on learners' outcomes. “What can I do on such late notice?” Jim asks. And then in...
IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT about how important CME guidelines are to the government, check out the Office of Inspector General's new guidance for pharmaceutical manufacturers, at www.oig.hhs.gov, issued as we went to press. Emphasizing that pharma...
The American Medical Association's new international activity approval program, which went into effect February 1, stipulates that medical education providers must register their activity for recognition with the AMA before issuing AMA Physician's...
In addition to SARS, the war and anti-American sentiment in Europe affected international meeting plans. The American Radium Society did some fancy footwork rescheduling its April 26 to 30 meeting from Paris to Houston. The Chicago organization...
“AS CME PROVIDERS, we should be able to use the best and the brightest to develop educational content. If we are to disqualify these physicians based on “perceptions” of conflicts of interest, we fail to provide the highest quality CME to...
