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.
Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube—it's all too much to deal with on a personal level, much less try to figure out how to use all of today's social media tools to enhance your CME program. You may even be wondering if you should be using...
We know that humans learn through stories, and that things learned through stories tend to stick. And when you can relate those stories to your everyday experiences, well, you can count on the knowledge to become part of your everyday repertoire...
I love this story about a man who had the luck (if you can call it lucky to have to suffer a cardiac event at all) to have a heart attack during a lecture on heart disease at the Central Maine Medical Center. Talk about having a doctor (and some...
Reading this editorial by Jerry Avorn in today's Boston Globe about academic detailing got me wondering why this hasn't really taken off. Avorn, the so-called "father of academic detailing," has been critical of the commercially supported CME...
I can hear the moans now: The American Medical Association's House of Delegates has finally approved the latest of its Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs many versions of proposed recommendations around commercial support and CME. Sigh. I'm...
Remember the study about the potential for bias in commercially supported CME that came out in the May issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine? I (and others) tend to get caught up in the whole actual versus perceived bias argument, but this...
Stefan Schneeberger, M.D., an Austrian transplant surgeon, spoke about the benefits of live medical meetings at a recent conference that garnered opinions from a variety of stakeholders about the future of global meetings, both live and virtual...
"We have decided that we will no longer pay for doctors to attend international scientific and medical congresses but will instead focus our educational efforts on local educational opportunities for healthcare professionals," said AstraZeneca...
