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 “Factors Affecting the Decision to Attend an Out-of-Town CME Meeting” chart in the “Annual Physician Preferences Survey” in the January/February issue, page 44, has a presentation error. The numbers are not percentages; they are Likert scale...
What is it that brings groups from organizations like Merck, the Harvard School of Public Health, GlaxoSmithKline, Transnasal Endoscopy, and Pfizer to a quaint little ski village named Stowe? Sure, there are Vermont's famous mountains, and the...
Like the famous definition of pornography, “I know it when I see it,” many meeting planners have a similarly intuitive definition of conference centers. There are, however, clear criteria that define the conference center concept. In fact, the...
I can read. So can you. Why, then, do speakers at conferences for CME professionals and meeting planners continue to read out loud from their slide presentations when we have the handouts in front of us? I've heard so much lately about the kind of...
The buttons, bows, and banners may be on the way out in some areas, but convention and visitors bureaus say they intend to work both harder and smarter to provide the services that matter to planners in this recessionary economy...
Maintaining its commitment to nurturing attendees' personal as well as professional well being, the Alliance for CME brought in David Whyte, poet and organizational consultant, to give the plenary address at the 27th annual conference. Held at...
“One of my main fears is that if our CME groups do not understand what this is about, they can essentially put themselves out of business,” said Susan Adamowski, director, new assessment initiatives, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology...
PCMA's annual meeting, held January 6 to 9 at Gaylord Opyrland's Convention Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., drew close to 2,300 registrants. That's about 700 fewer than the year before in Miami; a decrease PCMA attributed to 9/11 and the economy. In...
It's no surprise that the one-two punch of the September 11 terrorist attacks and the stagnant economy has slashed the number of hotel development and renovations projects scheduled for 2002. Industrywide, according to PriceWaterhouseCoopers, 6...
