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.
Every five years the CME office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School holds a strategic planning retreat. At the most recent one, held in 2000, George Mejicano, MD, assistant dean, CME, asked the group, “What are we doing well and...
As a guest at the spacious 665-room Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in central Pennsylvania this spring, I experienced a couple of the “signature” body treatments at the 235-room Hotel Hershey's elegant European-style spa. The two hotels are...
Applying technology to the challenges drug firms face when organizing visiting faculty programs, McGettigan Partners (www.mcgettigan.com) has launched the Physician Services Program. It allows corporate execs to manage the logistics of dinner...
E-mail Course Teaches Alternative Care Healthcare professionals measurably increased their knowledge of herbal and dietary supplements via a simple e-mail course, according to a study published in the September 2002 issue of Academic Medicine...
The physician assistant profession began only 35 years ago, but the growth in those few decades has been nothing less than explosive. By the end of 2002, nearly 47,000 PAs will be practicing medicine in collaboration with physicians in every area...
At the Alliance for CME conference last January, a hot topic was CME providers' role in helping physicians meet the new maintenance of certification requirements (MOC), which are currently being rolled out by the specialty boards under a mandate...
Susan Burgess, vice president, corporate compliance, and chief privacy officer for Virginia Commonwealth University Health System in Glen Allen, Va., was one of five winners of this year's Wyndham's Women on their Way Award, the hospitality...
The most revealing session I've ever attended regarding how physicians learn was held back in 1998 at the Alliance for CME conference. Entitled “Patient-centered CE,” it was run by Bob Pyatt Jr., MD, Chambersburg Imaging Associates, Chambersburg...
