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Webinar Provides Tips for Boosting Medical Meetings

SmartMeetings

Important insights into health-care professionals (HCPs) and tips on how to host an event that will attract and retain them were among the highlights of Jocelyn Cote’s recent Smart Meetings webinar. They know what works and what doesn’t, and they will not waste their time with meetings that are less than great. Do your research!

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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

The financial health of a medical association often depends on whether its annual convention exhibit floor is sold out. But health-care event organizers face a unique challenge when demonstrating to exhibitors the value of their participation. ATS and RSNA may be frontrunners in this tech among medical events. “We

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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We The roster of more than 100 speakers also drew heavily from the local community.

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CMEs at Virtual Events: A Live Versus on-Demand Challenge

PCMA Convene

As the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis has learned, offering CMEs at virtual events comes with different requirements, depending on when the sessions are viewed. It was still critical for us to offer continuing education” via the virtual program, said Lisa Astorga, CMP, DES, ISTH’s director of meetings.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

ABIM announced that some of its new MOC requirements would be postponed for at least two years, that its MOC exam would be “more reflective of what physicians in practice are doing,” and that its MOC enrollment fees would not increase until at least 2017.

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Canada’s Nurses Meet, Speak Out in Calgary

PCMA Convene

Forward March This past June, the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) rallied at Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC) for their 2017 Biennial Convention. It launched in early 2017 and was operational in time for CFNU’s Biennial Convention , held at the Calgary TELUS Convention Centre (CTCC), June 5-9. .

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How — and Why — You Should Include Patients at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Instead they were in the level of involvement by patients, who told their personal stories on stage and around the table during meals and who took part in brainstorming health-care solutions and in presenting new technologies, she wrote in a blog post after the event. At the Li Ka Shing Center at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.