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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

That said, most states require that doctors earn CME credits to keep their medical licenses — and without a valid license, doctors can’t keep their specialty certifications, either. HRS uses the OASIS platform from Coe-Truman Technologies to manage its speaker invitations, abstract submissions, and CME offerings. A HOT-BUTTON TOPIC’.

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

PCMA Convene

Over the last decade, there has been a slow-moving revolution toward leveraging the advantages that accrue to both health-care professionals and patients when they can play a meaningful role at medical meetings. Though their numbers are small, she said, there are sessions where patient speakers “really set the tone.”.

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PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2017

PCMA Convene

Director of Communications and Member Services Washington State Association of Counties Olympia, Washington, USA. As a “government” meeting planner, I am con-stantly challenged with limited budgets, outdated technology, and long-lasting traditions. Director of Registration Meeting Management Services Washington, D.C.,

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Fewer International Doctors are Attending U.S. Medical Meetings. Here’s Why.

PCMA Convene

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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Message of Travel’s Economic Power Delivered to White House

Smart Meetings

Jim Clarke, senior vice president for public policy at The Center for Association Leadership (ASAE), hoped the meeting would result in a more welcoming message from the White House, State Department and Department of Commerce.

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Convene Celebrates Our 30th Anniversary

PCMA Convene

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department. A Plan for Harassment.

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