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.
Adult learning principles apply cross-culturally — adults everywhere want to participate in their own learning — but there's a caveat: Definitions of participation do vary...
If you're a North American medical society looking to position your organization — and expand your meetings — across the pond, check out Brussels, Belgium — based European Association Services, a joint venture of Zug, Switzerland — based General...
“In today's climate, the field of medicine will be better served by clearer rules that more strictly separate education from promotion. The Standards for Commercial Support now represent a too subtle set of expectations that seem to invite pushing...
You asked for it — now you got it. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) has drafted a policy statement on Internet-based CME, addressing issues that have sparked much debate at CME provider conferences over the past...
Perhaps the biggest news from MPI's Professional Education Conference in Las Vegas in July, attended by almost 3,000 people, was the release of preliminary findings from MPI's Women's Leadership Initiatives Program survey of 2,000 industry women...
Arizona is one of only two states that does not adjust to Daylight Savings Time.…More than 12 million people visit Phoenix each year.…The original name of Phoenix was Smith's Station.…Spanish, Mexican, Union, Confederate, and U.S. flags have all...
No one would argue that the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, held August 4 to 7 at the Philadelphia Convention Center, was a hot time — both figuratively and literally...
“The rules are basically made by men, and if you are a woman, you're going to have to figure out how to live within the rules rather think someone's going to change them for you.” ...
CME NOTES Coding: Creative can be criminal. It is common practice for many medical associations to offer physicians courses on using the American Medical Association's Current Procedural Terminology, a list of descriptive terms and codes used to...
Imagine picking up the Wall Street Journal one morning and seeing a write-up about FDA violations that occurred on your conference's show floor. It's not a far-fetched scenario — it happened to the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the...
