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.
At the January 2002 Alliance for CME meeting, the ACCME hosted two educational sessions. One of these sessions was devoted to presenting information about current accreditation issues, and the other was provided to answer participants' most...
More than 1,000 clinical papers, symposia, new research poster sessions and workshops will be presented at the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association-the world's largest psychiatric conference-being held May 18-23 in...
Teleconferences are an effective way to train large numbers of doctors, nurses, and other clinicians and to standardize bioterrorism preparedness training across geographically diverse groups, according to a new report sponsored by the Agency for...
Deborah E. Wiley, Chairman of The Wiley Foundation, and Senior Vice President, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced yesterday the winners of the first annual Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences...
Former leaders of the National IPA Coalition (NIPAC) have officially endorsed the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) as the best resource for IPAs and integrated delivery systems throughout the country. AMGA announced that it is...
Draft standards for the new Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization's (JCAHO) Disease-Specific Care (DSC) Certification Program are now available on the JCAHO website...
Leaders of organizations representing 70,000 Registered Nurses and other allied professionals took a major step this week towards creating a new national nurses' organization...
The United States could significantly reduce the incidence of cancer in the years ahead without any further research breakthroughs -- if all available information about cancer prevention, detection, early treatment, intervention and education were...
At year-end 2001, Nashville-based HealthStream's national, Internet-based learning network of healthcare organizations increased to include a total of approximately 500 hospital facilities, up from 228 at the start of 2001. In the fourth quarter...
At the Alliance for CME annual conference, attendees usually debate the latest ethical and regulatory controversies in the continuing medical education field. This year’s conference, held January 30 to February 2 in Orlando, was no exception...
