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 ACCME

Pharma slashed CME funding again last year: report

July 25, 2012

The drug industry dialed back its continuing medical education (CME) grant-giving in 2011, continuing a negative trend of the last few years.
 

FDA opioid plan directs funding for CME

July 11, 2012

The FDA's opioid REMS safety plan is challenged on two fronts: getting CME providers to offer courses and getting doctors to attend them. Can the agency's scheme educate enough physicians to curb an epidemic?
 

No CME-pocalypse, data show

September 16, 2011

Doctors are still getting their CME, but mostly the non-commercially supported kind.
 

Steep drop seen in providers of community-based CME

September 15, 2011

State-accredited CME providers continue to decrease, with 68 dropping out as of last year, but so far the trend has not posed a threat to physician education, one official says.
 

ACCME punts on proposed logo ban

August 16, 2011

Corporate logos may still appear in CME commercial support disclosures, ACCME said, after a majority of respondents expressed disapproval of its proposal to ban them.
 

Doctors chip in more for CME, drugmakers less: report

August 12, 2011

The drug industry's backing of certified CME fell for a third straight year, as registration fees and other income surged, just-released data from ACCME show.
 

On fifth try, AMA ethics proposal becomes CME policy

June 23, 2011

A new report passed by AMA delegates draws ethical boundaries around the use of industry funding for medical education, stopping well short of the all-out ban seen in some previous versions.
 

Is ABMS proposal a threat to the CME system?

February 17, 2011

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) issued a white paper examining how CME can support its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) requirement in the future. The paper raised hackles among some who saw it as a call for new credit systems.
 

CME providers must correct violative info, council says

December 23, 2010

The non-profit group that regulates CME said providers must issue corrected information if an activity is found noncompliant.
 

New med-ed firm says no to industry funding

September 14, 2010

A new medical education company has opened offering to produce CME that is free of commercial support.
 

CME sea change is also a way to cut deaths from pain drugs

August 06, 2010

At a recent FDA advisory hearing on ways to increase the safety of extended-release and long-acting opioid drugs, the agency opened the door to using continuing medical education (CME) to help reach the goal.
 

Industry support of CME down 17%

July 08, 2010

Total commercial support of accredited CME fell 17% to $856 million in 2009, according to ACCME's annual report—marking its second straight year of double-digit declines on a percentage basis.
 

ACCME: Peer review, plus other provider controls, enable industry employees to present original research in CME

June 29, 2010

Several months' worth of dialogue, at times public and heated, between physician groups like the American Heart Association and the ACCME, has resulted in new guidance from the regulator of continuing medical education: Industry scientists, who had been barred from presenting original product-related research at for-credit talks, may now do so as long as provider controls ensure they have zero control over the content.
 

Number of CME providers on probation doubles from last year

June 22, 2010

The number of providers placed on probation by the nonprofit that regulates continuing medical education has more than doubled this year, from 15 to 35.
 

Physician leaders push back on policy barring industry speakers from talks

June 17, 2010

A policy barring pharmaceutical industry employees from giving continuing medical education talks at meetings has elicited strong opposition from physician leaders.
 

ACCME plan for limited transparency draws support

April 30, 2010

Comments to a recent ACCME proposal formed a clear consensus: Accredited med-ed providers who break the rules should not be identified, unless changes in their accreditation status occur.
 

Specialty societies' code targets conflicts of interest

April 22, 2010

Medical society journals must ban ghostwritten articles and cannot place ads for drugs next to editorial content discussing those products or their makers under a sweeping ethics code signed by several major medical societies.
 

ACCME ponders naming and shaming

November 12, 2009

The ACCME said it will consider releasing names of providers and activities found to violate bias rules. The exact details of the disclosure, if any, and the timing are under review by the ACCME Board of Directors, which meets December 3-4.
 

Industry support of CME fell 14% in 2008, ACCME data show

July 23, 2009

Total commercial support of accredited CME dropped 14% to $1 billion in 2008, according to the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's annual report -- even as the number of physicians participating in CME activities jumped 22% to 10.6 million.
 

Medical Education Report: Course Correction

July 15, 2009

Certified and accredited CME has undergone a sea-change in recent years, with policies now in place emphasizing quality and leaving little room for bias (not that you'd know it, for all the buzz about conflicts of interest)
 

Med Ed Report briefs

July 15, 2009

Featuring news about the ACCME, the Association for Clinical Researchers and Educators, SACME and the Association of American Medical Colleges
 
  

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What NOT to say to an MS Patient

Dorothy Wetzel June 07, 2013

It is often hard to find the right words when talking to a patient, friend or family member with MS. Even with training and awareness of the disease, we often blurt out something we think is innocuous only to find out later that we have deeply offended. The Health Activists that Extrovertic spoke to had some suggestions for having positive conversations with someone with MS.
 

2013 Hall of Fame Inductees

An entertaining look at the extraordinary lives and careers of the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame's 2013 inductees: Peter Frishauf, Dorothy Philips and David Labson. Clips produced by JUICE Pharma. 

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MAHF 2013: Honors Class

A gallery of images from the 2013 Medical Advertising Hall of Fame induction dinner
 
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