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.
What is it about doctors and golf? Damon Adams offers insights from physicians on the allure of the game. Read the story at AMNews (the weekly news publication of the American Medical Association) and to find a link to the North American Medical...
Just the idea of a cool, remote physician in a paper lab coat slipping in beside another doc and, brush dripping with orange paint, decorating his colleague's lab coat, seems farfetched. “But doctors like to have fun, too,” says Anne Bruce, event...
The groundbreaking of the Colorado Convention Center Expansion set a Guinness World Record when 1,260 people participated in the dig to begin construction on the $268 million expansion of the Colorado Convention Center, due to open in December...
The Council of Medical Specialty Societies has issued a report calling for fundamental change in the CME system so that CME will better prepare physicians to fulfill the new maintenance of certification (MOC) requirements mandated by the American...
Beginning in 2003, continuing medical education will be compulsory for the first time in Singapore, according to Monica Wong, executive director of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. U.S. CME providers will note familiar themes in the Academy's...
Are CME providers being used by the pharmaceutical industry to legitimize a treatment for conditions that aren't really diseases? Did Glaxo SmithKline “invent” irritable bowel syndrome in part by underwriting CME on the subject? These...
When you develop CME activities on highly publicized health problems, such as irritable bowel syndrome, erectile dysfunction, or osteoporosis, are you meeting a real public health need — or are you playing into the hands of drug company marketing...
