Information and updates on the rules, regulations, and codes that regulate continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development activities for physicians and other healthcare providers.
Three major CME organizations — the Accreditation Council for CME, the Mayo Clinic, and the Society for Academic CME — have joined together to launch an initiative aimed at developing a national agenda to improve CME and better align it with the...
The Advanced Medical Technology Association has released an updated, stricter version of its Code of Ethics on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, which will go into effect July 1, 2009. The new guidelines have some similarities to the...
High anxiety concerning the future of pharmaceutical funding of continuing medical education permeated the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education annual conference, held January 28–31 in San Francisco. In numerous sessions, attendees and...
Medical Meetings surveys doctors about their opinions concerning proposals to restrict continuing medical education faculty, the updated PhRMA code's gift ban, how the economy is affecting their plans to travel to CME meetings, and more.
I felt saddened and frustrated reading the comments of primary care physicians in a survey released by The Physicians' Foundation this past November. Once passionate about medicine and dedicated to their patients, they are now burnt out and...
