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.
Medical meetings are the heart of the Pennsylvania Convention Center client base — half its 2002 citywides are health care-related — but that heart skipped a beat in July when the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery threatened to...
Despite many CME providers' perception that commercial support seems to be drying up lately, the latest figures available from the “ACCME Annual Report Data 2001,” which was released this summer, say it just ain't so. In 2001, the average income...
There have always been faculty members who omit or outright lie about commercial relationships on the disclosure form; and speakers who won't return your calls or send in forms and materials by the deadline. And everyone seems to have a horror...
The 19th International Conference of the International Society For Quality In Healthcare will be held November 5 to 8 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Entitled “Building Bridges And Crossing Bundaries In Quality Improvement,” the conference is...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Janet Rehnquist; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Tom Scully; and Robert D. McCallum, Jr., Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice's...
National experts will convene in San Diego September 19-21, 2002 to discuss issues and opportunities surrounding ethnic diversity in medical research, from the design of studies examining health issues in diverse populations, to the participation...
Unsure what to include in a CME program on bioterrorism preparedness? The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new needs survey that hospitals can download and use as a checklist for assessing their capacity to handle...
