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.
“The rules are basically made by men, and if you are a woman, you're going to have to figure out how to live within the rules rather think someone's going to change them for you.” ...
CME NOTES Coding: Creative can be criminal. It is common practice for many medical associations to offer physicians courses on using the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology, a list of descriptive terms and codes used to...
Imagine picking up the Wall Street Journal one morning and seeing a write-up about FDA violations that occurred on your conference's show floor. It's not a far-fetched scenario — it happened to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the...
How'd you like to get out of standing in line at the front desk to check in? If Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., has anything to say about it, guests will soon be able to check into a Starwood Hotels property by having a bellman swipe your...
“I've had an awful experience,” a CME provider with a small organization called to tell me. When a pharmaceutical company — supposedly giving an unrestricted grant — didn't approve of her choice of speaker, they told her she was being unpleasant...
Meeting planners no longer have to worry about their attendees being zapped with an energy surcharge from your host hotel — if your hotel happens to be a Hilton or Hyatt, that is. The surcharge was instituted in some areas earlier this year to...
The Caribbean site file in the July/August issue of MM should have listed the Paradisus Sol Meliá Resort in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, as opening in December 2002 as a single hotel.
At a roundtable of women leaders in the meetings industry, convened by our sister magazine Association Meetings at the 2001 annual conference of the American Society of Association executives, some of the most provocative discussion was not about...
Jamaica's solid hospitality infrastructure has long made it a popular Caribbean destination for meetings and incentive groups — and that infrastructure keeps getting stronger. Air Jamaica, which offers nonstop flights from many U.S. gateways...
