Most would agree that the trend toward evidence-based medicine, and toward evidence-based continuing medical education, is a good one, that doctors should be basing their treatment decisions on the best available data, rather than anecdotal...

IT WAS WITH a growing sense of apprehension that I read the letter sent in June from the U.S. Senate finance committee to pharmaceutical companies asking them to explain their process for awarding educational grants. The senators want to make sure...

Medical Meetings is looking to develop a one-stop shop of resources that readers can use, free of charge, as templates to develop their own forms, letters, and policies. Do you have sample speaker invitation letters, new ACCME Standards conflict...

The Accreditation Council for CME's “Annual Report Data 2004” has a lot of very interesting numbers — including one that says the total income for ACCME-accredited providers has passed the $2 billion mark, up more than 15 percent over the 2003...

AFTER 10 YEARS of attending Pharmaceutical Alliance for CME meetings at the Alliance for CME annual conference, Maureen Doyle-Scharff, director, professional services and medical education, Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories, Columbus...

THE CME WE WILL see in five years is not at all what we see today. Commercial supporters are becoming more selective. And we see other important changes emerging...

TWO MEETING PLANNING groups combined shows to gain several advantages — getting better deals with venues, marketing to exhibitors more efficiently, and even attracting attendees who might not otherwise be there...

“HOW DO YOU distinguish between being politically correct and professionally competent?” asked one person I interviewed for the article about New Jersey's new mandate on cultural-competency training (see page 12). “There is more than one type of...

THE CME DOLLAR is regularly stretched to support activity planning, development, and implementation. On occasion, components of an event are compromised or eliminated because the funding is inadequate. When that's the case, do we behave as...

IN LATE MARCH, New Jersey's Acting Governor Richard J. Codey signed legislation requiring that physicians take “cultural-competency training” in order to obtain a license or be relicensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners. The intent of the...