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.
Presenting the evidence for exercise, physical activity and health outcomes in arthritis will be the focus of an international conference on exercise and arthritis to be be held Friday, Sept. 21 and Saturday, Sept. 22 in the Millennium Regal Hotel...
In 2000, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry held a projected 314,022 meetings and events for physicians, 11% more than in 1995, according to the Physician Meeting & Event Audit (PMEA) by Scott-Levin, Newtown, Penn. Physicians accepted almost...
The Accreditation Council For CME's "Understanding ACCME Accreditation" workshop is sold out, but the Alliance For CME's "CME: The Basics" is still open...
It has become common practice for many medical associations to offer physicians courses on using the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology (CPT), a list of descriptive terms and codes used to report medical services and...
The American Medical Association Board of Trustees announced last week that it was terminating the contract of its Executive Vice President E. Ratcliffe Anderson, Jr., M.D., pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement...
The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses and the Association of Camp Nurses will soon offer medical, surgical, and pharmaceutical supplies to members over the Web through a marketing relationship with Moore Medical Corp., an Internet...
What factors characterize an exemplary CME program? How can your organization achieve exemplary compliance? What’s the most effective way to gauge the impact of your CME activities? CME providers can explore answers to the field’s most critical...
The American Society for Photobiology (ASP) has an interesting attendee profile. Gathering on July 7 at the Chicago Downtown Marriott will be two main groups of research scientists: those who study the effects of light on living things, and those...
In the June issue, we posed some questions designed to discover whether attracting female physicians to CME was a concern. While the results are still coming in (OK, so we only have 15 responses so far), here is a sampling of what people have said...
Serious medical education on a cruise ship? Yeah, right. Any possibility of real learning would be drowned out by the siren calls of exotic ports, tropical breezes, poolside views — not to mention the attendees' kids yelling “Watch me!” And...
