As a certified Green Belt in Six Sigma, I was pleased to see the article entitled “From Factory to Faculty” [March/April 2010, by Bruce J. Bellande, PhD, FACME, CCMEP] in your publication. For those who are not familiar with the manufacturing wor...
Reports stemming from a journalistic project that pulled together a database of payments to physicians from seven pharmaceutical companies are critical of pharma speakers bureaus.
As reported in the Autumn 2010 American Medical Association Continuing Physician Professional Development report released earlier this week, 34 percent of intrastate-accredited CME providers said in a survey taken in 2009 that they were ...
A lot has happened to the role of medical education companies since Rockpointe Corp. filed its incorporation papers on October 2, 1995. Once considered an integral part of a pharmaceutical company’s communications strategy, medical education...
Lighthouse Learning may have scored a first for a continuing medical education–related for-profit company: a front-page story in The Boston Globe on the company’s launch earlier this week. The source of its newsworthiness? The new company plans...
