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How Will The EFPIA Disclosure Code Change Medical Meetings?

PCMA Convene

But the Disclosure Code ultimately had no significant impact on participation at medical meetings. Europe’s pursuit of transparency in health care continues, now moving on to the medical-device industry. How will it affect medical meetings? Effective Jan. What is changing? They’re going to follow the guidelines.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

a pulmonologist at Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, remembers when ABIM rolled out a new wave of requirements in 2012. Shortly after ABIM announced changes to its MOC requirements for 2012 — including a shorter time frame to earn the necessary points — ATS introduced a pilot MOC program at its conference. “We Judd Flesch, M.D.,

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The Power of Advocacy: How Two Medical Conferences Empowered a Family with Disabilities

PCMA Convene

In 2012, Jim was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and the surgery left him similarly in need of reminders. And now, I can know that in the future when we’re gone, she’ll be fine.”. THERE’S AN APP FOR THAT. Sharing Her Story Alice Brouhard spoke at TEDxRapid City last year about the power of an app and the power of advocacy.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

Compton joined AIA in 2012, just three days before AIA’s annual convention, which gave her the opportunity to observe it from a newcomer’s perspective. “It More Innovative Meetings. Why More Medical Meetings Are Looking at Airport Hotels. It felt typical of every conference I’d ever attended.”.

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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. Conventional Wisdom.

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