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.
The Professional Meeting Planners Network, Durham, N.C., which specializes in physician symposia, CME events, and other small medical meetings, has spun off a new company to resell online registration services and try to make Web registration and...
My wife, Mary Lou, and I retreat each summer to our cabin in the Lake Wobegon region of Northern Minnesota. This renews us both spiritually and intellectually; and so it is the perfect place to write about the topics covered in this issue of...
September 11 — related travel declines and the collapse of Ansett Australia airlines last fall aren't daunting to doctors looking to head Down Under. Earlier this year Sydney was home to medical events including international congresses on...
The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education took another step toward releasing a revision of its Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education at a Council meeting held in July in Chicago...
The Institute of Medicine brought approximately 160 national experts to Washington, D.C., this summer. Their mission was to explore ways to restructure health profession education to better prepare health care professionals to practice in a world...
At a CME providers' conference several years ago, I served on a panel where one of the speakers launched into a commercial about her company's product. When participants asked her questions, she responded with more anecdotes about her company...
Satellite symposia are not just live events held in conjunction with your meeting. If you want another source of potential income, you may want to follow the lead of the Society of Interventional Radiology and launch one into cyberspace...
Two months before the 2002 Pan American Congress of Rheumatology, scheduled for June 23 to 27 in Caracas, Venezuela, meeting organizers had to move the conference — not to another convention center or headquarters hotel, or even to another city in...
