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.
What role will specialty societies play in the world of managed care organizations (MCOs)? Two medical society executives, one medical tradeshow operator, and one expert in physician learning discussed the impact of MCOs on physician salaries...
The Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) broke another attendance record at its annual meeting, drawing a total of 2,371 paid registrants to San Antonio, TX in January, including a record 721 active members and 1,427 affiliate...
For medical conference organizers who struggle from year to year with parsimonious budgets, recalcitrant boards, and self-absorbed course directors, it really does seem impossible to believe that for three consecutive years, CME Information...
Breaking the record for the largest convention in Florida history, the American Dental Association (ADA) drew 49,960 attendees to Orlando for its annual meeting this past fall. When the ADA last met at the Orlando County Convention Center in 1992...
Airplane food: You can only call it haute cuisine because it's served at a haute of 35,000 feet. Given its functional nature, the best a traveler can hope for is good nutrition. Alas, that is only selectively true, according to the second annual...
In a policy letter issued last spring, the American Medical Association (AMA) stipulated that international conference sponsors wishing to have their meetings designated for Category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award (PRA)...
With little on-the-scene fanfare but a fair amount of premeeting lobbying, delegates at the Convention Liaison Council (CLC) approved a major restructuring of the organization at its November meeting in Fort Worth, TX...
