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.
MP3 players aren't just for teenagers downloading their favorite tunes — they're also for docs to download CME. At least, that's the hope of CME providers who are podcasting their audio CME content so healthcare providers can download an activity...
Research, Educational, and professional institutions throughout the United States got a windfall this spring when Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers announced 24 grants totaling more than $9 million to be used over the next two years to develop...
Seventy-three percent of off-label recommendations for 160 commonly prescribed drugs were made with little or no scientific evidence to support their use. That's one of the conclusions in “Off-label Prescribing Among Office-based Physicians,”...
While talking with various CME industry stakeholders about peer review of CME content during the past months, I observed a lack of consistency in the definition of the term, employment of a process, and reasons for using or not using reviews...
When the Office of Inspector General issued its pharma marketing guidance in 2003, some experts predicted that drug companies would initially curtail their excesses, and after a while the feds would ease up and the pendulum would swing back to the...
Having toiled in the vineyards of CME for most of my long career, I am all too familiar with the views of those who find little to like about our CME system, particularly the commercial support process. Charges of bias, promotion disguised as...
There are many gray areas when it comes to applying the Accreditation Council for CME's updated Standards for Commercial Support to meeting planning. That was the focus of the closed-door industry exchange for medical education and communication...
I had high expectations going into the hot-topics session about the ongoing Senate investigation into pharmaceutical companies' educational grants at the Alliance for CME annual conference — but I left disappointed and concerned about the CME...
You may leave your heart in San Francisco — but if you give a pen to a doctor there, you'd better keep track of how much it cost — or so says the new California Marketing Compliance Law (CMCL). What is this new law? Whom does it affect? Why should...
