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.
Despite the recession, professional attendance at healthcare meetings grew 1 percent in 2008 over the previous year, according to the Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association's 2009 State of the Industry Report and Market Trend Watch...
All of the 24 boards that are members of the American Board of Medical Specialties have implemented their maintenance of certification programs in 2008, announced Kevin B. Weiss, MD, MPH, president and CEO, ABMS, during a hot-topics session at the...
From the moment that I arrived, I noticed the absence of something that has always been present at the alliance for CME annual
meeting: a buzz. Does CME need CPR?
Meeting or junket? Incentive reward or boondoggle? Distinctions that may be perfectly clear to meeting professionals are clearly confusing to many Americans. This has resulted in extraordinary negative press coverage, meeting cancellations, and...
Attendees packed the room at the Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME section meeting, held during the Alliance for CME annual meeting in January in San Francisco, to discuss hot topics related to commercial support. Polled via an audience-response...
It's not a glamorous process. And it doesn't happen overnight. In fact, rolling out a strategic meetings management program is a pretty labor-intensive job that's often met with some tough resistance.
Just ask Tom J. Tolvé, CMP. As Novo Nordisk'...
The CME community could learn a lot from the meetings industry. Caught up in the recent media spotlight on corporate excesses, meetings have been labeled as junkets and boondoggles. To fight back against the barrage of public criticism and...
Three major CME organizations — the Accreditation Council for CME, the Mayo Clinic, and the Society for Academic CME — have joined together to launch an initiative aimed at developing a national agenda to improve CME and better align it with the...
