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6 Ways Medical Meetings Are Proving Their Value To Exhibitors

PCMA Convene

“And if they’re writing scripts, we don’t necessarily know whether it was because of our conference or another conference or direct-to-consumer advertising.”. Orders for medical devices are no easier to trace, considering the lengthy purchasing timelines for costly equipment. That’s a difficult thing to put an ROI on.”.

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This Is What Medical Meetings Will Look Like in the Future

PCMA Convene

attended his first medical conference more than 20 years ago, when he was a neurology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. Medicine Man Clay Johnston thinks that health care in the United States has ‘gone off the rails’ — and that fixing it means changing the medical- education model.

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Storytellers Bring Innovative Content to AGU Meeting

PCMA Convene

This case study is part of Convene ‘s April CMP Series story looking at innovations in scientific and medical meetings. American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. 9-13, 2019 Moscone Center, San Francisco 28,000 attendees. (Epnac Photography). The competition, open to U.S.

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Rethinking Certification at Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

We traced MOC back through the decades — from first introduction to physician response — and found out how Paschall and other meeting professionals have successfully added it to their conference offerings. That’s where MOC programs come in — and, by extension, the meetings and conferences where those programs are offered.

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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. “It on Sunday, Sept. A Paradigm Shift’.

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‘The Hugs Felt More Genuine’ at This In-Person Health-Care Meeting

PCMA Convene

The world’s largest emergency medicine conference, the American College of Emergency Physicians’ Annual Scientific Assembly, convened Oct. Who: About 4,000 emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents, and medical students in person. 1-4, San Francisco. 25-28 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.

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Best Big Cities Also Among Best Meeting Cities

SmartMeetings

When Conde Nast Traveler released its latest list of The Best Big Cities in the United States, it could have just as easily been writing about The Best Meeting Cities in the United States. San Francisco. million business travelers met in San Francisco for an increase of 2.7 In 2015, 5.8 Honolulu, Hawaii.