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.
When the Global Business Travel Association Foundation surveyed travel managers, security officers, and human resources managers about how their organizations keep business travelers safe, more than eight in 10 reported having a travel risk...
Rioting and a five-night curfew in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray, who had sustained a spinal injury while in police custody, caused at least two meeting cancellations. However, meetings business has quickly returned to normal in t...
The past month, Congress did something that one may consider amazing. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sat down and agreed to permanently fix the Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate, or SGR. Then both t...
Kids cartoons are silly and fun and perhaps a bit moralistic, but would you take advice from Rapunzel or the Lion King's Rafiki? I think I will. Check out this infographic of advice from our cartoon friends, as gathered by playground equipment co...
Image from Congrats! You Have an All-male PanelThe list of all-male panels on the Congrats! You Have an All-male Panel Tumblr is dishearteningly long, and the humiliation of being featured on it is only compounded by each being stamped with a thu...
Storytelling is a critical element of continuing education. From the start, physicians are trained using stories in grand rounds, clinical case studies, and in lectures. To craft an engaging education story you need the following components:
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The hottest topic at the International Pharmaceutical Congress Advisory Association conference, held in Zurich in March, was, not surprisingly, the plethora of regulations facing those who plan medical meetings globally.
In a members update fr...
Meetings Master, a new cloud-based event management tool for the meetings, incentive, convention, and exhibition industry, is offering a complimentary license for qualifying planners during its pre-launch production phase.
Meetings Master help...
The travel and tourism industry has a huge impact on the world economy. The latest research from the World Travel & Tourism Council shows that the industry’s contribution to world GDP grew for the fifth consecutive year in 2014, rising...
The goal of most corporate meeting departments is to plan programs that get high marks from attendees and save money in the process. David Rich would like to upgrade that goal by adding a bigger purpose for what you do, a purpose that already...
