January 1, 2008 MM
Cover Story
Bias in the Hot Seat
The continuing medical education community is under attack by the government and the media for allowing pharmaceutical industry marketing messages to...
Checkup
Find a Window
As I write this, the presidential candidates are crusading through the neighboring state of New Hampshire in anticipation of what promises to be an exciting...
Second Opinion
Partner with Government
I read your article Rethinking the Lifeline (December 2007) addressing the federal scrutiny of pharma funding of CME. At the end of the article you asked...
Vitals
Stark Law Squeezes CME
In Bad News for Hospital-based CME providers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) did not include a broad exception for CME in the final...
Pharma Planners Connect
Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking...
CME, Coalition-Style
A coalition of nine organizations recently received a $12.5 million grant from Pfizer to develop a CME program on tobacco cessation that's expected to...
Consult
Collective CME Resolutions
I begin every January filled with hope and optimism and then I make the same resolutions that I've made for at least 10 years. Many of us engage in similar...
My CME Life List
I have heard a lot about life lists lately; these are the lists that people make outlining things that they want to do or accomplish before they die....
Money Doesn't Kill CME. People Do.
The CME enterprise has had a few rough years. Some physicians requested or accepted too much honoraria for too little work. Some educational presenters...
7 Tips to Meet Your Customers' Needs
With all the issues that confront the healthcare convention industry attendees' time and budgetary pressures, the increasing proliferation of regulations,...
Features
No Pharma Funding
When Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City stopped accepting commercial support for its continuing medical education activities last...
Pharma's Conscience
It is ironic, but the pharmaceutical industry, despite having created many successful and life-saving therapies, has one of the worst public images, said...
Sites
Georgia
In Georgia, along the beaches of the Atlantic coast and barrier islands, owners and local CVBs have noted that some hotels and meeting facilities are...
Ethical Hypothetical
Grantors, and Agents, and Cronies Oh, My!
The Case Treat U Right LLC, is a small nonaccredited medical education and communication company that was founded in 1990 by Roger Slickman, a veteran...
Medical Meetings' 2007 M&D Award Winners
Arizona PhoenixJW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa ScottsdaleThe Scottsdale Plaza ResortThe Westin Kierland Resort & Spa California CoronadoHotel Del...
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CVB Supplement 2008
The Changing Face of CVBs
Featuring:*Changing Face of CVB's
*CVB's Go Green
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