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.
An article and accompanying editorial in the December 18 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association explored the relationship between “medical communication companies” and drug and device companies—and drew some conclusions that c...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education recently announced it is looking for comments on its proposal to simplify its accreditation procedure and process. The call-for-comments is open until January 31, 2014. The proposal, which...
ACCME President and CEO Murray Kopelow, MDA series of recommendations released last week by Pew Charitable Trusts’ Pew Prescription Project imply that the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education’s Standards for Commercial Support a...
This week GlaxoSmithKline became the first major pharmaceutical company to announce it would no longer compensate physicians for talks promoting its products or about diseases its products treat to “audiences who can prescribe or influence prescr...
During the past 50 years, we have seen an unprecedented extension in life expectancy, from age 68 in 1950 to age 78 today. Many of our health improvements are due to new therapies and treatments created by collaborations between physicians and...
The pendulum continues to swing toward online learning, according to a survey of 801 clinicians conducted by Elsevier’s Office of Continuing Medical Education (EOCME), medical education company AcademicCME, and ArcheMedX, a healthcare informatics...
Among the Pew Prescription Project's recommendations: a ban on attending and speaking at promotional meetings, and no more industry funding for accredited CME
Editor’s note: Jeremy Lundberg, MSSW, chief executive officer of EthosCE Learning Management System and DLC Solutions, has some really smart friends. So, he thought, why not ask them if they’d be willing to share some of their...
Two opening keynote speakers at the Meeting Management and Speaker Programs Life Sciences Forum, held last week at the Coronado Island Marriott Resort and Spa near San Diego, Calif., explored two sides of the same regulation coin.
Laura Duffy, a...
