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 following statement was released yesterday by the organizers of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), being held at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center and originally scheduled to end on Sunday, September 16...
Adults who use complementary and alternative medical therapies (CAM) in addition to conventional medicine appear to value both - and tend to be more concerned about their physician's inability to understand or incorporate CAM therapy than they are...
The Society of Critical Care Medicine has moved its offices from Anaheim, California to Des Plaines, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago. The move was intended to locate it near the nation's major medical associations. The opportunity to...
Only 16 percent of internal medicine clerkship programs include formal lectures about adverse drug events, according to a new study published in the September 5, 2001, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Study results...
A 1998 national survey of 4,832 residents completing their training in 8 specialties (internal medicine, pediatrics, family practice, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery, orthopedic surgery, psychiatry, and anesthesiology) at academic health...
The New Yorker Magazine calls it "The most important alternative medical meeting in America." According to William Fair, former Chair of Urologic Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Medical Director, Health, Inc., it presents ...
eMedicine.com, an online medical reference service based in St. Petersburg, Fla., has announced the launch of its new internet site for Continuing Medical Education units. With this new release, eMedicine claims to be the largest repository of CME...
Cybercafés are a welcome service but, for the event planner, they're a major addition to the convention to-do list. Even if you outsource, as many planners do, you'll still need to provide direction to your cybercafé supplier. Here are some things...
