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.
The Accreditation Council for CME content validation policy, which stirred up a ruckus in its draft form earlier this year, is still provoking questions since its release as a policy in September (see box on page 15). The final policy dropped the...
A giant American flag, patriotic theme music, and a team of forensic dentists who served on the front lines at Ground Zero made the message clear at the annual meeting of the Ohio Dental Association, which kicked off September 12, 2002, in...
Applying technology to the new challenges that drug firms face to comply with the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Code on Interaction with Healthcare Professionals, McGettigan Partners (www.mcgettigan.com) has launched the...
The Ohio State University Medical Center is launching a new program to train doctors in an emerging surgical procedure which may extend and improve the lives of certain patients with one of the most serious health problems in the U.S. - congestive...
Palmer Taylor, Ph.D., 63, Chair of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Department of Pharmacology, has been selected to serve as founding dean of the new UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, following a national search...
The 28th Annual Conference of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education (ACME) will be held January 29 through February 1, 2003 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion, in Dallas, Texas. The theme for the 2003 conference is “Linking Communities...
Health educators and other healthcare professionals--including dietitians, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and physician assistants--are invited to the third annual "Bridging the Gap with Education: Diabetes Symposium and Workshop 2002" Oct. 1-2 at...
A pediatrician at Brenner Children's Hospital (Winston-Salem, N.C.) has developed an efficient way to help educate health care professionals on herbal and dietary supplements via the Internet, according to a study published in the September issue...
