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.
“If we book a resort, I can lose my job.” That's what a pharma meeting planner told Michael T. Aylmer, senior director, pharmaceutical sales, KSL Resorts, Downingtown, Pa., soon after the release of the PhRMA code. Issued in 2002 by the...
THE AMERICAN MEDICAL Association has recently authorized providers to offer a new type of activity for AMA PRA Category 1 credit: Performance Improvement. It's very exciting from an educational perspective and really focuses on bringing the...
THE ALLURE OF San Francisco — and anxiety over the looming implementation of the Accreditation Council for CME's updated Standards for Commercial Support — were a great draw for the Alliance for CME's 30th Annual Conference, held January 26 to 29...
MANY PROVIDERS think they don't have the time, money, knowledge, or skills to do outcomes measurement that will determine how effective the activity was in changing participants' behavior and improving patients' health. Testing participants using...
During a new session at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting in Tampa, Fla., in January, 200 participants experienced a simulated mass casualty disaster, with interaction via an audience-response system. “After the introductory remarks...
AT MY FIRST continuing medical education professionals' meeting, the 1997 American Medical Association CME Provider/Industry Collaboration Conference, I had a breakfast conversation that I've never forgotten. A CME provider told me how his...
EDUCATING INTERNATIONAL conference attendees about U.S. immigration policies and procedures is critical to ensuring that they reach their conferences with as few hitches and glitches as possible...
THIS SPRING, there is a fresh buzz surrounding international meetings. Future Watch 2005, the annual survey conducted by Meeting Professionals International and American Express, points to a second year of sustained growth in international...
