Congratulations to Kevin McMurtry, who has been named as a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2006 New Jersey program. McMurtry is the president and CEO of Advanced Health Media, which supplies technology solutions for...

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While this has nothing to do with CME per se, it's a good reminder about why providers should be very, very careful when providing perks to docs: Lincare pays $10 million and signs a five-year CIA to resolve allegations of kickbacks and self...

CME veterans Jacqueline Parochka, EdD; Richard Tischler, PhD; and Jane Ruppenkamp, have formed PTR Educational Consultants, LLC. Based in Bristow, Va., the company offers online training and products to support CME program administrators‘...

A note from Capsules co-blogger Anne Taylor-Vaisey...

A group of former fighter pilots called LifeWingers Partners has teamed up with the Ohio State University Medical Center (OSUMC) in Columbus, Ohio, to teach healthcare workers the safety and efficiency secrets that military and civilian airlines...

It seems like everyone loves to badmouth medical education companies—well, here‘s a reason not to. The recently released aggregated data from the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education on its 736 accredited providers shows that the...

Anne Taylor-Vaisey has noted some articles that may be of interest to Capsules readers...

I'm sad to say that Chris Pentz, of the Pentz Group Communications, is not faring well in her fight with bladder cancer, despite her surgery in January. Chris has been an invaluable resource for Medical Meetings, a speaker at our Pharmaceutical...

That's the contention of this editorial in the New York Times. Daniel Carlat, a professor at Tufts Medical School and the editor in chief of The Carlat Psychiatry Report, writes that physicians are being paid to bash trazodone, which went off...