June 1, 2008
Cover Stories
Pharma Meetings and the Public's Trust
In 1997, 80 percent of the public viewed the pharma industry as favorable. That figure dropped 35 percentage points the following year and has been in free fall ever since,” said David Stern, executive vice president, Endocrinology, EMD Serono, Rockland, Mass., during his keynote address at the Fourth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, citing data from a recent study conducted by Harris Interactive...
Taking strategic Meetings Management Programs Worldwide
Global strategic meetings management. Talk to meeting planners at any major pharmaceutical company and they'll likely tell you it's the next frontier...
Attracting Millennials to Meetings
Think of your Gen Y colleagues in your workplace: are they plugged in and tuned out? Or do they just appear that way to your baby-boomer eyes? How will...
Global Pharma Regs Scare off Medical Association Meeting Exhibitors
Countries around the world are implementing regulations to curtail pharmaceutical marketing practices and medical association meetings are feeling the...
Pharma Meeting Planning Survey
Changes to the pharmaceutical meeting planner profession have come fast and furious the past few years from increased federal scrutiny and compliance...
Check Up
Physician Gift Ban Bill Goes Too Far
The senate in my home state of Massachusetts has passed legislation that would ban any payments or gifts made by pharmaceutical and medical device companies...
Firewalls Proposal Goes Too Far
I imagine I won't be alone in my reaction that the solutions Donna Beales offers in her article 5 Steps to Building Real Firewalls (March/April 2008)...
CME professionals need collaborative tools
I could not agree more with Lawrence Sherman (“Houston, We Have a Problem,” March/April 2008). I have now been in CME for 14 months...
Vitals
The Association of American medical colleges calls for tougher policies about industry/physician relations
The Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force on Industry Funding of Medical Education has issued a report recommending that academic medical...
New certification program for CME professionals
The National Commission for Certification of CME Professionals has announced the launch of its long-awaited certification exam for CME professionals....
Consult
Accreditation Council for CME’Ss Updated Criteria Create Challenges for CME Providers
An ongoing challenge facing CME professionals is the Accreditation Council for CME's updated accreditation criteria. As many CME providers are faced with...
Social Networking for CME
About six months ago I got an e-mail from a colleague inviting me to join something called I had never heard of it, and suspected that it was spam or...
Features
COPD CME case study
If You Want to Changeperceptions about continuing medical education on Capitol Hill, Robert Meinzer, senior director, national CME, New Jersey Academy...
Planning special events in public venues
When the BIO 2005 annual convention held an event at the Philadelphia Museum of Art that spilled down the steps and into the plaza in front of the facility,...
Sites
Featured Location: Back in the Saddle
With its 50 miles of riding trails through canyons and meadows, a 100-acre spring-fed lake, two 18-hole championship golf courses, and six tennis courts,...
Callaway Gardens
Owned by the nonprofit Ida Cason Callaway Foundation, the 13,000-acre Callaway Gardens has had a mission for more than five decades: connecting humans...
Chicago
Let's face it For groups planning a national meeting, airport hassle deters attendance. The expense, the crowds, surly security guards, long lines, and...
New England
When sunny days return to the Northeast, the sounds of backhoes, saws, and hammers rev up to let planners know that the New England states are getting...
Ethical Hypothetical
Should commercial supporters review CME content for accuracy?
The Case Charles Caution, MD, PhD, medical director for a small medical education and communication company in New Jersey, has been a longtime advocate...
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