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.
We've gone from post — Cold War growth and healthy budgets to economic uncertainty and instability and shrinking bottom lines — welcome to what pundits have dubbed “The Next Economy.” ...
Last November, the National Governors Association concluded that cities and states are facing their worst budget crisis since World War II. The result is a kind of triple whammy for the hospitality industry...
With the continuing threat of terrorist attacks, education on bioterrorism remains a top priority for CME providers. But the focus has changed — from the “disease of the day” to an underlying new awareness of how to deal with the spectrum of...
THE SURGICAL TEAM has scrubbed up and donned their gowns; press 1 on your keypad if you're ready to operate. A script during the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics meeting in Washington, D.C., might read just that way. Like many...
"We won't have any speakers left." That was the opinion of numerous attendees at the 29th Alliance for Continuing Medical Education Annual Conference regarding the Accreditation Council for CME's draft revision of the Standards for Commercial...
DESPITE MOUNTING evidence that the old adult education models aren't always the best ways to promote real learning, some CME providers still find themselves beating their heads against the walls trying to get their organizations to accept even...
ELIOT EISNER WROTE a book a number of years ago called Education Imagination, in which he described how connoisseurship and criticism as seen in the arts can be applied to education. An educational connoisseur, he suggested, should be able to...
