Medical & Pharma Meetings

Strong retention rates for the first classes of Certified CME Professionals indicate members value the credential

The AMA National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration conference explored the challenges of working together to improve patient care in today’s “gotcha” environment, along with hot topics like the controversial...

That's what Tom Sullivan predicts in this post: CME and the Health Care Economy Hospitals and Universities Cutting Back. He cites a decrease in state-accredited providers (the number of ACCME-accredited providers also having been heading downward...

During this week's #CMEchat on Twitter, I wondered if we could use some gamification elements to encourage healthcare professionals to engage in followup activities. I don't know about you, but I find activities with gaming elements pretty...

Here’s how you can create your own ethics micro-scenario: Ask for a volunteer from the audience to be the Doctor of the Day. In your request, mention that all they have to do is answer a “yes or no” question. Recruit a staff member to play the...

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Two technology experts explain how associations can use social media to build communities around their events

I just finished "Personal Best," Atul Gawande's latest New Yorker article, in which he explores the idea of improving performance in the operating room (and throughout the healthcare system) not by holding more traditional continuing medical...

I loved the interactive case studies (just like I love Medical Meetings' Ethical Hypothetical case studies). My only complaint is that it took such a long time to get through all the introductory stuff that we ran out of time to do even five cases...