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MANOVA Global Health Care Summit Redefines the Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

Rather than featuring the tried-and-true combination of abstract posters, continuing-education credits, and miles-long corridors of medical-device exhibition booths, Addicks wanted to mold MANOVA — a three-day program at the Minneapolis Convention Center from Oct. 14–16 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

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[Webinar] Creating Compelling Events for Today’s Healthcare Professionals

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Webinar live date: October 23, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Webinar live date: October 23, 2019 at 2pm ET / 11am PT. Using research results from a recent white paper by Ashfield Meetings & Events, three medical-meeting specialists will discuss how physician preferences at meetings and congresses are evolving, and why.

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Turning a Supertanker in a Storm

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For Clif Knight, MD, FAAFP, senior vice president of education for the American Academy of Family Physicians, 2020 was supposed to be about a gradual reshaping of the organization’s CME portfolio. The partnership gives us the ability to try some different formats of online learning in order to meet the needs of our learners.

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Medical Meetings Embrace Wellness

PCMA Convene

Attendees at the 2019 annual conference of American Academy of Physician Assistants take advantage of one of the offerings: a workout class. They’re issues that people in every industry report suffering from, but for those in the medical field, they can be especially severe. For 2019, held Oct. Photos courtesy AAPA). Exhaustion.

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SOS on Lampedusa

PCMA Convene

SIAARTI has not decided where it will land in 2019. With the successful execution of the SIAARTI Academy, AIM Group hoped to prove that Lampedusa — a destination usually not considered for such congresses — was capable of hosting business events and educational activities, Santoro said .

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American Institute of Architects Convention Becomes Better by Design

PCMA Convene

Using these metrics, a few areas of concern stood out in 360 Live Media’s assessment: educational content, educational delivery style, and off-site activities. “We For AIA’s future annual events, Las Vegas shimmers on the horizon for 2019, and Los Angeles in 2020. More Innovative Meetings. Beyond the Veneer.

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When Conferences Lie

PCMA Convene

Providing little or no substance, these events — if they even take place at all — not only create confusion in the market, they siphon off the very same audiences legitimate events work so hard to attract and educate. These dodgy meetings are a real danger to our industry’s hard-won reputation.”. What can be done? It sounded good.”