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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. They know what works and what doesn’t, and they will not waste their time with meetings that are less than great. Do your research!

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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

The financial health of a medical association often depends on whether its annual convention exhibit floor is sold out. But health-care event organizers face a unique challenge when demonstrating to exhibitors the value of their participation. ATS and RSNA may be frontrunners in this tech among medical events. “We

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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

In August 2018, when Mark Addicks was in the midst of planning his first-ever event, the MANOVA Global Health Summit, he was determined to make it a dramatic departure from the typical medical conference. “We In these ways, MANOVA will continue to break out of the traditional medical-meeting mold.

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This Is What Medical Meetings Will Look Like in the Future

PCMA Convene

He’s putting many of them into practice at the University of Texas at Austin, where he serves as the inaugural dean and vice president for medical affairs at the new Dell Medical School — the first built-from-scratch medical school to open at a first-tier research university in the United States in 50 years. The prognosis?

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What Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

Claiborne “Clay” Johnston, inaugural dean at the University of Texas at Austin’s new Dell Medical School, told the audience at PCMA Convening Leaders 2017 in January. So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained. health-care system is broken, Dr. S.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

ABIM announced that some of its new MOC requirements would be postponed for at least two years, that its MOC exam would be “more reflective of what physicians in practice are doing,” and that its MOC enrollment fees would not increase until at least 2017.

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CMEs at Virtual Events: A Live Versus on-Demand Challenge

PCMA Convene

As the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis has learned, offering CMEs at virtual events comes with different requirements, depending on when the sessions are viewed. It was still critical for us to offer continuing education” via the virtual program, said Lisa Astorga, CMP, DES, ISTH’s director of meetings.