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.
A survey conducted by MDlinx earlier this month came up with some shouldn't-be-unexpected results: That a quarter of the docs surveyed say they're seeing the quality of their continuing medical education activities decrease as pharma pumps fewer...
Some pretty big news came out last week while I was in San Diego for our West Coast Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a proposed rule designed to increase public awareness of...
The Accreditation Council for CME's latest monthly e-newsletter includes a link to the ACCME's response to the FDA's release of a blueprint for the prescriber education component of the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for long...
A survey of participants at the Fourth Annual Life Sciences Meeting Management Forum reveal the industry's state of readiness for the implementation of the Sunshine Act.
Continuing medical education professionals from around the world gathered via the #CMEChat hashtag on Twitter on December 7 to talk about what can be done to improve how new information flows from annual conferences to local practices. They used...
The 2011-2012 roster of the International Medical Meeting Professionals Association’s officers and directors is now official. Scott Graham, president of Excellent Meetings will succeed Lisa Keilty, president of The Keilty Group, as IMMPA’s...
Pfizer recently reorganized its Medical Education Group in a pretty dramatic way, including moving 90 percent of its budget into a request-for-proposal model, rather than one based on unsolicited grant requests (here's a fairly thorough run-down...
