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.
Are CME providers being used by the pharmaceutical industry to legitimize a treatment for conditions that aren't really diseases? Did Glaxo SmithKline “invent” irritable bowel syndrome in part by underwriting CME on the subject? These...
When you develop CME activities on highly publicized health problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, erectile dysfunction, or osteoporosis, are you meeting a real public health need — or are you playing into the hands of drug company marketing...
The Accreditation Council for CME has issued a policy for Internet-based CME. The final guidelines are a streamlined version of the draft policy disseminated for comment last August...
There was an error on page 8 of the Small Meetings Guide, a supplement to the March/April issue of MM. A program about measuring return on investment developed by Jim Daggett, CMP, was called MeetingMatrix instead of MeetingMetrics. We regret the...
Lewis A. Miller, founder of the Global Alliance for Medical Education and the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, and chairman, Intermedica Inc., located in Darien, Conn., was named the 2002 winner of the Crain Award for lifetime editorial...
CME providers are applauding the recently updated and reissued ethical code of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America(PhRMA), formerly called the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers of America. Called the Code on Interactions with...
To show their commitment to the nursing profession, members of The Independence Foundation, 16 nursing alumni associations in the Philadelphia area, and the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau's Nursing Committee of the Greater...
