Healthcare Organizations Diana J. Durham, PhD, has been named director of education and accreditation for the Audio-Digest Foundation, Glendale, CA, a nonprofit subsidiary of the California Medical Association. She is responsible for directing all...

Guess what? Cancun is clean and safe and offers efficient, friendly service starting with airport personnel and continuing right through cab drivers to the front desk staff at your hotel...

Since 1992, accredited providers of continuing medical education (CME) have complained that the last of the seven Essentials (rules for operating a CME program established by the Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) was the most burdensome. This...

How long is the "Who Should Attend" list in your meeting's brochure? Long and diffuse lists of who should attend adorn the majority of the 298 continuing professional education brochures that crossed my desk during a recent 31 day period. (I will...

The success of your meeting depends on what your participants are eating. Here's why a meeting travels on its stomach--along with some lessons from the world of food marketing for medical conference organizers...

Meeting executives hire speakers to educate or to entertain; the best speakers do both. It has become common practice for organizations that retain speakers, be they professional or volunteer, to enter into agreements with them outlining the terms...

When Michael H. Paige, director, meeting and convention operations, Parke-Davis, Morris Plains, NJ, decided to outsource meeting services he took an unusual tack. "I wanted them in-house," he says, "so I could have hands-on control." After a six...

For years now, conference organizers and meeting planners have been promised the Virtual Reality Big Rock Candy Mountain, a magical place where you just push a button and seamlessly send your in-house meeting registration and requirements to a...

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What makes second-tier cities worth a medical conference organizer's while? They may require more hands-on attention, but they give good value, they're friendly, and they can be extraordinarily helpful. Here are three takes on these benefits, plus...