From the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education:

This toolkit includes suggestions for CPD mechanisms and the tools to implement them. Included are examples of activities that will aid your staff in learning more about CME, other regulatory requirements and the CME profession. More information can be found on the Professional Development and Educational Opportunities page, under Web-based Opportunities or by clicking here.

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey:

The July issues of Academic Medicine and Medical Education, and the Spring 2006 issue of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (JCEHP), are now available online. Link to these and other medical education journals here.

From Sue: And don’t miss the June issue of Medical Meetings, available here. My favorite article from this issue (even if I did write it) is AGs Create Grant Windfall, about the 24 grants totaling more than $9 million to be used over the next two years to develop programs to educate physicians and other healthcare providers about pharmaceutical marketing. If you want to get in on the next round, go to the National Attorneys General Web site for info on how to submit a proposal.

A three-day annual convention of Tamils in North America, beginning July 1 in New York, has a pretty eclectic schedule, according to this press release.

A youth forum, a seminar on ethnic media, a continuing medical education conference and a poetic gathering will be some of the programmes at the event, which is said to be the largest in the history of North American Tamils.

Now if only the youth could put together a movie about cultural competency in healthcare in rhyming sestets, it would all come together nicely…

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey:

Here are two new issues of journals devoted to the following:

 

Advances in researching adult e-learning [Studies in Continuing Education]

 

Lifelong education: beyond the learning society [International Journal of Lifelong Education]

 

Archive for the ‘Individual Issues of Journals’ Category

From the Alliance for CME:

This year’s Alliance competitive Awards Program deadline is just one week away!



Many CME professionals are engaged in innovative CME activities worthy of recognition. The Alliance encourages you to reflect on the activities you’ve planned and implemented, CME professionals who have impacted your job, or some innovation you feel is worthy of recognition and then invites you to submit an application by Friday, June 30, 2006. These awards are presented at the Alliance’s Annual Conference at a special reception for recipients. For more information, click



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That’s what the recent issue of Pharma Marketing News (link to pdf download) explores. While it doesn’t come up with a whole lot of new answers—I think we’re all waiting for the latest ACCME data report—it does have this to say:

Although the total amount of pharma spending on CME increased in 2004 as compared to 2003, the percentage of CME income attributable to pharma has decreased and shifted away from MECCs to schools of medicine. The2005 ACCME data—due to be released soon—is expected to reveal that the absolute dollar amount of pharma CME dollars has decreased somewhat.

Well, let’s wait and see. From what I hear, some CME providers are doing better than ever with commercial support, while others are struggling, so I guess your perception of how the market is doing really is what counts. Still, I’ll be curious to see what shakes out in the ACCME data.

Yes, it was a great vacation—thanks for asking! While I was gone, a recruiter sent me her active list of job postings. If you’re interested in any of them, please contact her directly (I have no more information than what I post here; see bottom of this post for her contact info):

Active Search List:

New York, NY

Assistant Medical Director- must have Md, PhD, or PharmD

Associate Medical Director - must have MD, PHD (science related), or PharmD with med ed writing experience

Account Coordinator/Program Coordinator

Associate Account Executive/Associate Program Director

CME Director

Senior Program Director

Executive Director- Managed Markets

Medical Editor

Presentation Artists

Associate Art Director

Sr. Production Artist / Ass‘t. Mgr - evening

Production artist

Designer

Project Manager

Clinical Director- PhD, PharmD degree, account management, reviewing slides, high science, experienced writer, but little writing for the position

Medical Writer



Pharma Ad Agency, NYC

SVP Account Group Supervisor- 2 openings in oncology

Sr. Account Exec/Acct. Sup/VP- Anemia, hypertension

Sr. copywriters-oncology, chrone‘s, HIV, respiratory, osteo

Strategic Planner




Tarrytown, NY

Medical Editor- copyeditor/medical editor




Collingswood, NJ

Editorial Director- must have PharmD, MD, PhD degree, 5 years of editorial experience at a med communications agency, 5 years of editorial management experience, full time- on-site position




Parsippany, NJ

Account Supervisor

Production Manager

Senior Copywriter

Copy Supervisor




Morristown, NJ

Project Director

Project Manager 2 openings




Montvale NJ-location for 2 months, moving in August to Secaucus

Account Manager

Account Director

Medical Writers: (2) 1 with CME experience, the other doesn‘t need to have CME experience- must have PhD, PharmD, or MD degree

Scientific Director- PharmD, PhD, or MD degree




Morrisville, PA

Project Manager

Account Executive




Cranbury, NJ

National Account Executive- focus on building new business and clients, 5 to 7 years of direct selling, reports to Director Business development

Medical Writer- strong oncology experience a must, and provide samples




Princeton, NJ

VP Marketing/New Business Development

Account Director- Oncology




Somerville, NJ

Director/Senior Director Nursing Education- Bachelors RN required, preferred BSN, MSN, CSN

Director Pharmacy Education- Bachelors RPh required, preferred PharmD




Chicago, IL

Medical Writer- need PharmD, PhD, or MD Degree




Maplewood, NJ

Copywriter




Newtown, PA

All three roles require PharmD, PhD or MD degrees

Medical Communications Director

Sr. Medical Director

Medical Writer- med ed agency experience




Blue Bell, PA

Program Manager- lot of client contact, 3-5 years of experience in program management med ed/ 2 years supervisory




Morristown, NJ

Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Firm

Project Director

Market Research Analyst

If you want to learn more about these jobs, contact:

Shannon Peryea

Executive Recruiter

Sheila Greco Associates, LLC

174 County Hwy 67

Amsterdam, NY 12010

(518) 843-4611 ext. 252

shannonp@sheilagreco.com

www.sheilagreco.com

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey:

Advances in Health Sciences Education: Theory & Practice May 2006;11(2) is now online. Read more about it here.



For more on what‘s new in the medical education journals, click here.

As one might expect they would. This article in PLoS Medicine ends with this conclusion:

The primary obligation of industry is to make money for its stockholders. The primary obligation of journals should be to physicians and their patients, who depend on the accuracy of information within these publications. Medical journals should not accept advertisements from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other industries “relevant to medicine.”

Not surprisingly, journal publishers are not too keen on this idea. In this article:

John Kamp, executive director of the Coalition for Healthcare Communication, called the study‘s proposed ban on advertising a “goofy” idea, stating the study‘s authors should instead thank drug companies for supporting robust medical journal independence.

“PLoS Medicine needs to take a basic course in the First Amendment and the history of American journalism,” he said. “Journals advance the science of medicine and play a critical role in the diffusion of innovation in clinical treatment, mostly at the expense of the drug industry. What the drug industry gets in the bargain is access to prescribers and the opportunity to be kicked around routinely by fiercely independent journal editors. For all its perceived faults, it’s a great system that benefits doctors and their patients.”

From Anne Taylor-Vaisey:

Here is the latest AMEE Education Guide, published in the May 2006 issue of Medical Teacher.

See also AMEE Education Guides: Extended Summaries; AMEE Education Guides.



Goldie J. AMEE Education Guide no. 29: Evaluating educational programmes. Medical Teacher 2006; 28(3): 210-224.




Read more here.