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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Okay, if you’re a meeting professional who works for a medical or health-care organization, it’s not actually a problem for you to imagine any of this. How is it different from standard continuing medical education (CME)? In fact, that’s more or less your job description. But what exactly is MOC, and where did it come from?

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Top medical communications companies: Choosing the best for events

SpotMe Blog

The right MedComms agency team should be able to leverage their expertise in medical communications to ensure that your event is successful and meets all of its goals. Clients – With the life sciences industry being so broad, it is important to know whether the medical communications agency has experience in your specific field.

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A Leader in Medical-Meetings Education Turns Her Sights on Newcomers

MeetingsNet

Pat Schaumann, CMP, CSEP, DMCP, HMCC, made a name for herself 10 years ago with the launch of the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program. MeetingsNet’s Changemakers list recognizes outstanding meeting professionals for their efforts to move their organizations and the industry forward in unique and positive ways.

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

PCMA Convene

When Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a geriatrician who practices in San Francisco, first attended the Stanford Medicine X conference at Stanford University in 2013, the most remarkable innovations she encountered, she later recalled, weren’t in tech advances or brilliant breakthroughs in research. All photos courtesy of Medicine X. on Friday, Sept.

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

PCMA Convene

Walkability, value, and friendliness can be strong drivers for why planners choose certain destinations over others for meetings. If a city can hit on all of those cylinders, it can emerge as a meetings-business champion. And more and more, they’re asking questions about a destination’s local expertise and knowledge base.

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

The reinvented meeting included trips to the New School, Radio City Music Hall, and St. By all accounts, the 17,000 or so annual attendees were enjoying it just fine — as they had for more than 150 years, when the then newly formed association wrote annual meetings right into its bylaws. More Innovative Meetings.

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Design Thinking: An Event Strategists’ Toolkit

PCMA Convene

The ITA, formerly called Travel + SocialGood, was founded in 2013 as a partner to the United Nations Development Programme, and now operates as an independent network, although the UN connection remains: The 2017 summit kicked off at United Nations headquarters. For example: How can we change face-to-face interaction in the exhibit hall?

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