Continuing Medical Education

In this article, the third in a three-part series based on a recent MeetingsNet webinar, Velvet Chainsaw’s Executive Vice President of Education and Engagement Jeff Hurt provides 10 insights that will help you align your educational...

What if your jobs as medical meeting providers depended on the performance outcomes from your education, just as Medicaid reimbursement depends on outcomes beyond the patient’s hospital stay?

There are significant regulatory, cultural, and business-related trends that are changing the face of healthcare in the U.S. today. Are your continuing medical education activities keeping pace?

PPlanning a daylong hybrid meeting that includes live interaction with more than 600 participants in 80 countries is not for the faint of heart. But Pat Ahaesy, CMP, CSEP, president and partner of Manhattan-based P&V Enterprises, a certified woma...

The Red Book includes pharmaceutical and medical meetings regulations for more than 100 countries. has entered into an agreement to acquire The Red Book for Medical Meetings, a global medical meetings guide to information on pharmaceutical and co...

We know that the need for education never stops for healthcare professionals. What we forget is that it never stops for us, either.

The idea of having to resolve conflicts of interesting in continuing medical education is not new, but there still is a lot of confusion around what does and does not constitute a COI.

Panels can be droning, painful exercises in ego-fluffing. When they feature overbearing panelists who commandeer the discussion, they can actually disengage the audience by ignoring them altogether. Panels, in the words of author, speaker...

David Stankiewicz, project manager/strategic programs with IEEE, a professional association for the advancement of technology, showed how meeting planners can use Google+ Hangouts to enhance an event by, well, using Google+ Hangouts to speak at a...