Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence have partnered with Leverage Software to create Pharma Planners Connect, an online social networking site, for participants in the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum. The...

The CME enterprise has had a few rough years. Some physicians requested or accepted too much honoraria for too little work. Some educational presenters turned a blind eye to science while winking at promotion. And some employees of organizations...

When Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City stopped accepting commercial support for its continuing medical education activities last January, many at the institution had their doubts that the program would survive. “Our staff was...

The continuing medical education community is under attack by the government and the media for allowing pharmaceutical industry marketing messages to creep into educational activities. But how often do physician participants perceive commercial...

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 for other strategies that have been developed to ensure CME's independence. We at the New...

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 and unpredictable primary and election year. One thing is certain: healthcare is a top...