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.
A new study points out the way extraneous events can skew survey results. CME providers attempting to measure education outcomes in terms of patient satisfaction, read on...
The Kidney Cancer Association has announced the availability of a series of webcasts that will expand access to the latest information on cutting edge research and treatment of kidney cancer to physicians, Ph.D. researchers, patients, families and...
Answering a need for medical groups, IPAs, and integrated delivery systems to have one voice speaking on their behalf in the state of California, the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) has announced the formation of the California Medical...
On Tuesday, April 30, 2002; 2:00 pm-3:15 pm EST, The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) will provide a timely and useful audioconference on how to implement the new...
U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services Tommy Thompson, M.D., participated in the inaugural address yesterday at Preventive Medicine 2002, the annual meeting of the American College of Preventive Medicine being held in San Antonio Feb. 20...
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) yesterday announced a joint Program Announcement (PA) encouraging research that addresses a critical priority for the quality of U.S. health care...
Just as flight simulation is used to train pilots and allow them to make mistakes without threatening lives, surgical simulations, with mannequins that mimic human functions such as breathing and bleeding, put novice and experienced doctors into...
At the January 2002 Alliance for CME meeting, the ACCME hosted two educational sessions. One of these sessions was devoted to presenting information about current accreditation issues, and the other was provided to answer participants' most...
More than 1,000 clinical papers, symposia, new research poster sessions and workshops will be presented at the 155th Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association-the world's largest psychiatric conference-being held May 18-23 in...
Teleconferences are an effective way to train large numbers of doctors, nurses, and other clinicians and to standardize bioterrorism preparedness training across geographically diverse groups, according to a new report sponsored by the Agency for...
