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.
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...
More than 180 corporate, association, government, and independent meeting planners responded to the second annual Destination Hotels & Resorts State of the Meetings Industry survey in September 2013. Here’s what they see ahead in 2014:
Budget St...
MeetingsNet/medical columnist Ann Lichti invites colleagues to share how they all collaborated on a CME initiative that resulted in improvements in physician performance.
Meeting planners and speaker program managers from pharmaceutical, medical device, and other life sciences companies gathered in late November 2013 at Coronado Island near San Diego for the Meeting Management and Speaker Programs Life Sciences...
