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.
Cardiologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Duke Clinical Research Institute and other leading medical centers officially launched a 60,000-patient project aimed at encouraging physicians to follow published practice...
• In a Capsules item on a General Accounting Office investigation of coding course practices that appeared in the September/October issue, page 238, one association was misidentified. The presentation given at a meeting of the American Academy of...
It may seem mundane compared to dealing with the impact of terrorism, but CME providers still need to prove they are worthy of accreditation under the Accreditation Council for CME's new system...
SEPTEMBER 11, NEW YORK CITY. “WHEN THE first planes hit and we heard about the Pentagon, the feeling of not being in control was overwhelming,” says Lynne Tiras, CMP, president of Houston-based International Meeting Managers Inc., echoing what so...
To launch its new device for heart failure management, Minneapolis-based Medtronic planned a two-day training for reps at a San Diego hotel. Business as usual — except that terrorists attacked the U.S. about two weeks before the launch. Medtronic...
Back in March — months before 9/11 — the nation's nursing leaders convened the first meeting of the International Nursing Coalition for Mass Casualty Education. Recognizing that nurses would be on the front lines in the event of a national...
Convention and visitors bureaus across the country are reporting that medical meetings and convention business is for the most part holding strong for 2002. “We have 27 citywides booked for next year, and about half of those are medical or medical...
As anthrax was discovered in U.S. Capitol office buildings in mid-October, the American College of Emergency Physicians was in the middle of its annual scientific assembly in Chicago. The sessions on bioterror and disaster preparedness — usually a...
As of this writing, in October, travel of all sorts has been severely impacted by the fear and loathing which are among the legacies of the heinous terrorist crimes of September 11, 2001. Should this become a long-term phenomenon, marketers of CME...
