Information and updates on the rules, regulations, and codes that regulate continuing medical education (CME) and continuing professional development activities for physicians and other healthcare providers.
Enoch Choi, MD, an urgent care physician and partner at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California, found himself in a sweltering Wal-Mart parking lot in St. Bernard Parish, New Orleans, in early October. He was surrounded by National Guards...
CME has a public image problem. So said 84 percent of the attendees polled via audience-response system at an opening panel discussion at this year's Annual Conference of the National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, held October...
CME providers are generally quite adept at conforming to current requirements for development of compliant activities. Faculty, too, are generally guideline-compliant and when unfamiliar with the rules, they are ready to listen, understand, and...
Change keeps coming. It doesn't take a genius to read the tea leaves here. To us, it signals a potential system collapse. Let's look at two incidents that have taken place recently...
Who would have thought that medical education could help bridge the divide between Israelis, Jordanians, and Palestinians? As CISEPO (Canada International Scientific Exchange Program), a Canadian-registered, nongovernmental organization, has...
As of late August, the Senate Committee on Finance had finished collecting an initial set of responses from pharmaceutical companies concerning educational grants but had not yet begun reviewing the responses; nor did it have a set timeline for...
Attention medical meeting and CME planners! It's budgeting season at pharmaceutical companies right now. This is the one time of year that medical marketers put aside their product promotions, sales meetings, and advertising schedules to...
Germany and Sweden have issued codes of conduct for relationships between CME providers, physicians, and pharmaceutical companies, announced speakers at the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Global Alliance for Medical Education, held June 19 to 21 at...
