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Message from the Editors
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Call for Presentations
By Tamar Hosansky
Medical Meetings magazine and The Center for
Business Intelligence are currently planning upcoming conferences for
meeting professionals in the pharmaceutical and medical device
industries and we want your input so that we can develop the programs
that best meet your needs.
What are the greatest challenges facing you as a healthcare industry
meeting professional today? What experts would you like to hear from
about these issues?
To give us your ideas, or to submit a session proposal, please e-mail Courtney Richman. If you
submit a session proposal, please include a title, short informative
paragraph, and key takeaways.
And mark your calendars:
Second Annual West Coast Medical Device and Bio/Pharmaceutical
Meeting Planners Forum,
December 8 to 9, 2008, San Diego. For information, visit www.pharmameetingplanners.com/west.
Fifth Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, March 29 to
31, 2009, Baltimore. For information, visit www.pharmameetingplanners.com.
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CME Watch
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New Certification for CME Professionals
Launched
The National Commission for Certification of CME
Professionals has announced the launch of its long-awaited certification
exam for CME professionals.
The inaugural certification exam will take place between June 13 and
June 30 at more than 200 testing centers across the U.S. and Canada. The
application deadline is June 1. The exam will be offered four times each
year.
Certificates will be presented to the first class of certified CME
professionals on October 21, preceding the opening reception at the
National Task Force on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration conference.
Read more about the first certification
program for CME professionals.
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Regulatory Updates
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AAMC Calls for Gift Ban, Tougher CME
Rules
By Tamar Hosansky
The Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force
on Industry Funding of Medical Education has issued a report
recommending that academic medical centers strengthen their policies
regarding relationships with pharmaceutical, medical device, and other
health industries in order to ensure an "effective and principled
partnership."
The 39-member task force, which was chaired by the former CEO of Merck
and included representatives from the pharmaceutical industry and
academic medical centers, worked for two years on the report. Of
particular interest to continuing medical education and healthcare
meeting professionals are the recommendations concerning gifts and
education.
Management of commercial support should be handled by one centralized
CME office within AMCs, says the report. In addition, CME offices should
develop audit mechanisms to ensure that their activities are in
compliance with the Accreditation Council for CME Standards for
Commercial Support. The task force also recommends that the AAMC
collaborate with the ACCME to create an external process for monitoring
CME activities, a move that could address the concern expressed in the
Senate Finance Committee's April 2007 CME report, which noted the lack
of such auditing as a weakness in the ACCME's oversight system.
Read more about the report, including the proposed gift
ban.
For the full 43-page report, visit
www.aamc.org.
What do you think about the AAMC report? Send your comments to Tamar Hosansky.
For more coverage, watch for the June issue of Medical
Meetings.
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Career Clinic
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Get Educated
There are a variety of educational opportunities on the
horizon, including a new APEX webinar for meeting planners and two live
seminars for CME professionals. Here’s a rundown.
How To Use APEX as SMMP Tool.
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MeetingsNet in cooperation with the Convention Industry Council. To
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The 8th Annual Continuing Medical Education Conference.
The theme for the conference, held June 12 to 13 in Philadelphia, is
“Successes in CME.” The program looks at strategies for success from
both an educational and management standpoint. For more information on
the meeting, which is organized by the Center for Business Intelligence,
go to the conference
web site.
The Alliance for CME’s 2008 CME Basics Institute.
This intensive day-and-a-half program focuses on the fundamentals of
CME. The conference, held June 19 to 20 in Rosemont, Ill., is targeted
to newcomers to the field of CME and those who want to sharpen their
skills. It combines didactic lectures, breakout sessions,
question/answer periods, and case studies; and emphasizes adult-learning
principles. To register, click here.
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