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.
With extreme interest, I read Lawrence Sherman's article “What Do I Do for a Living?” (June 2007), and it was like a revelation. I said to myself: “This is what everyone, my wife included, always asks me.” Even though I don't live only for my work...
Improvements to Denver's Colorado Convention Center, the new Hyatt convention hotel, and a bigger budget for marketing the city helped make 2006 a record year for metro-area meetings. As a result of this — and the choice of Denver to play host to...
The Accreditation Council for CME has expanded the definition of commercial interest — a decision that could preclude some medical education and communication companies from maintaining their status as accredited CME providers...
A decade ago, it was only trailblazers who were even thinking about global meetings consolidation. Today, it's right up there with return on investment and compliance as a hot-button issue for pharmaceutical meeting planners. As with U.S. meetings...
Without industry support we would not be able to keep our registration prices affordable, given the magnitude of our course (four-day board review). Physicians are given a limited amount of professional development funds and they will quickly...
While physicians' use of eCME is growing, even the most active Internet-users rely heavily on live meetings for their CME credits, according to a new study...