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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. Additionally, they all went through many years of education to enter their chosen profession. First, HCPs like education.

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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

As a result, medical meetings are finding other ways to demonstrate their value to current and prospective exhibitors. From beacon-collected data to lead scanners to third-party evaluations, here’s how two medical meetings are tackling the exhibitor ROI challenge. Strategy 4: Opportunities to Educate Instead of Sell. “We

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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

Rather than featuring the tried-and-true combination of abstract posters, continuing-education credits, and miles-long corridors of medical-device exhibition booths, Addicks wanted to mold MANOVA — a three-day program at the Minneapolis Convention Center from Oct.

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How Medical Meetings Can Help A Broken U.S. Healthcare System

PCMA Convene

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. Clay Johnston: All you have to do is have some well-known speaker stand up there and you’ve just entertained a thousand people in the audience, right? CJ: I think that’s right.

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Event Case Study: Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo

Smart Meetings

The scholarship program gave recognition to individuals with less than 10 non-consecutive years of experience in healthcare design and construction, including research and/or education. Every year, we have a group of volunteers that source the raffle prizes and take pride in bringing new items.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

“Our audience is at least 90-percent physician,” said Joyce Paschall, CAE, CMP-HC, CMM, director of education and meetings for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), “so if we didn’t offer MOC [programs], we would be rather foolish.”. But what exactly is MOC, and where did it come from?

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‘Hybrid Events Are Here to Stay’

PCMA Convene

What Reed, chief event strategy officer, American Society of Hematology (ASH), loved most about this time, he told participants in an online PCMA Community Conversation for medical meeting planners earlier this year, is probably what other planners have hated: “We needed to operate when there was really no roadmap to us,” Reed said. “I