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:
Here is a "perspective" just published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, as well as links to the IOM's publication on drug safety.
Read about new articles on physicians and the pharmaceutical industry on Anne Taylor-Vaisey's blog here. She also has updated her "New in the Medical Education Journals page," with a new issue on Innovations in Problem-based Learning, available...
Is anyone else going to the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration meeting in Baltimore this month? If so, I hope to run into you there. This year, it could be even more interesting than usual!
According to the Sacramento Bee, the University of California at Davis is thinking about joining Stanford and Yale in imposing "strict limits on meals and on payments for doctors to attend meetings or participate in online medical education...
Do we really need CME on what doctors should tell patients about the drugs they prescribe? According to this study, I'm guessing the answer is "yes." From the New York Times writeup of the study...
According to the Pharma Compliance Alert, the Office of Inspector General 2007 Work Plan, released last week, found that despite a large number of False Claim Act investigations currently under way, this year has been relatively quiet when it...
