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.
Is it just me, or was there a really incredible energy around this year's Alliance for Continuing Medical Education conference? I don't remember ever leaving the conference feeling so hopeful about the future of the CME enterprise, or about the...
Immediate past president Jann Balmer was a champion throughout the meeting for the Alliance's new strategic plan, and on Saturday morning she answered some of the questions people already have been asking, and encouraged all to keep the questions...
Among the hot topics in CME today -- from REMS to perceptions of bias to Maintenance of Certification Part IV -- the one that left me feeling a bit queasy from the final Alliance for CME plenary session Saturday morning was a presentation on...
I know, it seems weird to get so excited about checklists, but I'm such a fan of Atul Gawande that I had to get a copy of his book The Checklist Manifesto as soon as it came out. So when I saw there was a session at the Alliance for CME conference...
I was a bad blogger yesterday--never did get around to posting anything. Since my flight has been delayed now and the San Francisco airport so nicely is giving me 45 minutes of free wifi (yay!), here's some quick thoughts about yesterday's...
The National Association of Medical Education Companies held a really interesting session after hours on Thursday on a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis they had conducted via the CME LinkedIn group. ...
I can't begin to say how much I loved this session on experiential learning! Maybe it's because I still had the message about connecting emotions with learning to make the message stick from the morning plenary, but the examples of the different...
I wanted to go to the "4x6" session as much to see what the format was all about -- which was four eight-minute (I think they were supposed to be six from the name) presentations, followed by discussion and Q&A -- as for the topic. Though the...
The opening plenary session of the Alliance for CME conference today was a really comprehensive discussion of what's needed to move from individually focused continuing professional development to education that will help an entire organization...
