What medical and pharmaceutical/bioscience/medical device meeting planners and continuing medical education professionals need to know to plan meetings and CME activities for healthcare professionals.
SICK OF SPONSORING cold convention breakfasts and busy coffee breaks? Veterinary Learning Systems of Trenton, N.J., wanted to build awareness of its new Web site and found an unusual--and fitting--sponsorship opportunity at the North American...
Health Care News and Ideas for Medical Conference Organizers ASSOCIATION NOTES There are about 10,000 naturopaths practicing holistic medicine in the U.S., part of what the Journal of the American Medical Association estimates is a $27 billion...
Conference center managers have learned a new word: flexibility. For years, planners said that conference centers were outstanding meeting facilities but had two drawbacks--rates were too high and the Complete Meeting Package (CMP) forced them to...
BRAND NEW February saw the grand opening of Covington, Ky.'s 204,000-square-foot Northern Kentucky Convention Center, with its 47,000-square-foot exhibition hall, divisible into two spaces; a 23,000-square-foot ballroom, and ten meeting rooms...
Consider the following case: Your continuing professional education program, in conjunction with an array of stakeholders (sponsoring department, course director, CPE committee, commercial supporter, parent organization), decides to launch a new...
Long-time adult-learning advocate and researcher Henry B. Slotnick, PhD, PhD, professor of neuroscience, University of North Dakota, won the 1999 William Campbell Felch/Wyeth-Ayerst Award for Research in CME for his project on self-directed...
The Southwest and Southern California region of the U.S. continues to experience phenomenal growth, fueled by business, entertainment, recreation, and convention investments. Topping the list, of course, is Las Vegas, which has successfully...