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

PCMA Convene

Johnston has some ideas for how to address that, beginning with the way in which phycisians are trained and receive continuing medical attention.

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What Physicians Will Want out of Your Medical Meeting

PCMA Convene

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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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.

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Embracing the Digital Opportunity

PCMA Convene

This is likely to be that year for scores of meeting professionals: When Convene surveyed planners in early April, an overwhelming majority — 70 percent — said that they had moved or planned to move some or all of their content to digital platforms. I think they are hard to pull off,” she said. “I Yeona Jang. Learning Curve.

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Engagement: It’s Not Rocket Science (But it Is Neuroscience)

MeetingsNet

Incorporate these neuroscience findings into your event design when your objective is learning, collaboration, or change. read more.

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5 Trends We’ll Be Watching in 2018

PCMA Convene

As I worked on our January cover story on medical meetings, I took a deep dive into how AI is expected to disrupt health care over the coming years. I was both electrified and a little stunned by what I learned — who knew that nearly half of the hospitals in Rwanda receive medical supplies by drone?

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What Do You Like Best About Your Job?

PCMA Convene

Constantly meeting new people. Developing the agenda and content for events; designing the framework for attendee experiences. . Diversity and varying scope of events and meetings; the mission of the non-profit academic institution that employees me. Medical meeting industry is challenging!