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.
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: From the December 2006 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine: Cooper RJ, Gupta M, Wilkes MS, Hoffman JR. Conflict of interest disclosure policies and practices in peer-reviewed biomedical journals. J Gen Intern...
According to this press release, Pri-Med has completed an enormous outcomes study that found that 99 percent of those surveyed said they were using the education they received to "change or refine their approach to patient care" six weeks post-CME...
The Medical Science Liaison Institute is organizing its first "Executive Program" in the spring of 2007 through a newly established MSL University. The meeting is open to senior-level pharma executives, including VPs, directors, and managers. The...
Check this one out from the Annals of Internal Medicine: Pay-for-Performance and Accountability: Related Themes in Improving Health Care. From the article...
The good news, for me, is that I just got a promotion—I will be the new editor of Association Meetings, a magazine I have always found to be fascinating, in a field that's also fascinating. So many new things to explore...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: I wonder how much more can be written on this topic? Here's another article, from the November issue of Annals of Emergency Medicine...
From Anne Taylor-Vaisey: The November 2006 issue of the Mayo Clinic Proceedings contains four articles that "exhibit the types of medical education research that must continue in the future if we are to further improve 21st century medical...
This article on SiLive.com tells about how medical schools train docs on how to deal with pharmaceutical marketers—and I like the approach Mount Sinai is taking...
