PCMA Convene

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

may be spilling into the events industry, including attendance to medical meetings. From the Trump administration’s “America First” agenda to new medical meeting regulations, a number of issues are being blamed for keeping international doctors from attending medical meetings in the United States.

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PCMA Convene

MARCH 25, 2019

As a result, medical meetings are finding other ways to demonstrate their value to current and prospective exhibitors. From beacon-collected data to lead scanners to third-party evaluations, here’s how two medical meetings are tackling the exhibitor ROI challenge. Strategy 4: Opportunities to Educate Instead of Sell. “We

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PCMA Convene

APRIL 2, 2017

attended his first medical conference more than 20 years ago, when he was a neurology resident at the University of California, San Francisco. Today, Johnston thinks there are more innovative, engaging ways to deliver medical education. And not just in medical school. Claiborne “Clay” Johnston, M.D.,

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PCMA Convene

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

“Our audience is at least 90-percent physician,” said Joyce Paschall, CAE, CMP-HC, CMM, director of education and meetings for the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), “so if we didn’t offer MOC [programs], we would be rather foolish.”. But what exactly is MOC, and where did it come from?

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PCMA Convene

JANUARY 2, 2018

. & YOU, an international digital health congress focused on bringing patients and patient perspectives into medical meetings. You don’t have to go to a live conference anymore to get CME [continuing medical education], which has been the principal reason to come to many medical meetings.

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SmartMeetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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.

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PCMA Convene

MAY 1, 2017

How does that play out at meetings — and what can you do to minimize it? Late one Thursday night last March, attendees at Microsoft’s 2016 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco looked forward to unwinding after a full program. NETWORKING LESSONS FROM THE PRIMORDIAL PAST. Collect new ideas.

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