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How the Sunshine Act Affected Medical Meetings

PCMA Convene

Seven years after the Sunshine Act first lit up the health-care industry, the legislation is having a widespread impact on medical meetings. The number of dinners and in-person meetings may be shrinking, but the need for learning opportunities isn’t. It’s changed the paradigm.

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What Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting

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But the most glaring gap in creating an effective health-care system, he said, relates to human-centered design thinking, i.e., asking what makes sense from the patient’s perspective. So Dell Medical School is changing the way medicine is practiced by changing the way medical students are trained.

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Why This Medical Meeting Simulated a Crisis

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Imagine walking into a major international medical meeting and finding your afternoon session transformed into an intellectual, public-health version of a murder-mystery dinner party. They’re two different types of audience, and you have to design it for both.”. million deaths a year. Richardson said.

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Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings

Smart Meetings

Those stressful last-minute gyrations were just one of the issues addressed in Smart Meetings ’ latest webinar, “ Vital Lessons from Covid-era Medical Meetings ,” led by Kara Ferguson, meeting planner for American Society of Anesthesiologists , and Katie Bohrer, CEO of event design company Onwardly.

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How Medical Meetings Can Help A Broken U.S. Healthcare System

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Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention. This time on the podcast we meet Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. I’m your host, Ashley Milne-Tyte.

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Contracts, Negotiations and Financials

SmartMeetings

In the latest Smart Meetings webinar, “How to Harness the Power of Negotiation to Master Your Post-Covid Events Career,” Alison Fragale shares how to be your own cheerleader and the science of prenegotiating. Lessons from the Front: Covid-era Med Meetings. The Event Vax Debate Uncovers Legal, Health and Moral Questions.

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Embracing the Digital Opportunity

PCMA Convene

In March, despite the fact that the Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin (PDPW) had never before offered an online education component to their annual meeting, the association converted a face-to-face meeting to a virtual one in just seven days. Less Panic, More Design Strategy.

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