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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Board certification in the United States dates back to 1917 and the country’s first medical-specialty board, the American Board of Ophthalmology. HRS uses the OASIS platform from Coe-Truman Technologies to manage its speaker invitations, abstract submissions, and CME offerings.

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5 Midsize Cities Using Their Local Knowledge Economies to Bring In Meetings

PCMA Convene

For Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, however, the region’s flourishing startup culture was a story that needed telling, which is why, in 2008, they founded an online publication called Silicon Prairie News (SPN) — taking its name from a tech-friendly area that includes Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri. About 400 attendees showed up. “[The

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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. November 2008.

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