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 two co-located conferences that comprise the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s annual meeting deliver plenty of celebration along with learning and networking, and the audience just keeps growing.
Derrick Johnson, director of conventions & events for NMA, discusses how the annual-meeting experience is enhanced by engaging attendees' spouses as well as the host city's residents.
As prices rise but meal-spend caps do not, planners need to get creative to deliver satisfying, impactful events for attending practitioners. Here are a few ideas.
Life-science company planners and medical-society planners reveal the critical issues they contend with when working on companies’ congress participation.
At the recent Pharma Forum conference, senior event planners from various life-science firms shared ideas for how to set expectations before a meeting, and then deliver metrics afterwards.
If proprietary research or confidential data is leaked from a life-sciences meeting, there can be serious competitive or regulatory ramifications. Meeting planners are the first line of defense.
Physician stress and burnout is at unprecedented levels, but life-science companies have opportunities to help practitioners through self-care activities and education at their meetings.