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.
Lauren Kramer-Whelan, director of meetings with the Alexandria, Va. — based American Academy of Otolaryngology, says she's “thrilled” at having placed the winning bid of $270,000 on a Washington, D.C. Convention Center package worth $500,000 at...
What could make a teenage girl donate her baby-sitting money to a conference on a congenital developmental disorder instead of spending it at her local mall? Or pull a busy investment banker from New York City to Saint Paul, Minn., to take his...
Adult learning principles apply cross-culturally — adults everywhere want to participate in their own learning — but there's a caveat: Definitions of participation do vary...
If you're a North American medical society looking to position your organization — and expand your meetings — across the pond, check out Brussels, Belgium — based European Association Services, a joint venture of Zug, Switzerland — based General...
“In today's climate, the field of medicine will be better served by clearer rules that more strictly separate education from promotion. The Standards for Commercial Support now represent a too subtle set of expectations that seem to invite pushing...
You asked for it — now you got it. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has drafted a policy statement on Internet-based CME, addressing issues that have sparked much debate at CME provider conferences over the past...
Perhaps the biggest news from MPI's Professional Education Conference in Las Vegas in July, attended by almost 3,000 people, was the release of preliminary findings from MPI's Women's Leadership Initiatives Program survey of 2,000 industry women...
Arizona is one of only two states that does not adjust to Daylight Savings Time.…More than 12 million people visit Phoenix each year.…The original name of Phoenix was Smith's Station.…Spanish, Mexican, Union, Confederate, and U.S. flags have all...
No one would argue that the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, held August 4 to 7 at the Philadelphia Convention Center, was a hot time — both figuratively and literally...
