CE Measure: The Journal of Outcome Measurement in Continuing Healthcare Education

CE Measure is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated specifically to the art and science of healthcare educational outcomes measurement. Original manuscripts that address outcomes methodologies, results, practice-based protocols, CE conference highlights and abstracts, and case histories will be published to promote vigorous academic scrutiny of this important subject. Sample articles (all available free online): Changing [...]

Continuing Medical Education in Europe: Evolution or Revolution?

This White Paper was published by MedEd Global Solutions in May, 2010: Continuing Medical Education in Europe: Evolution or Revolution? MedEd Global Solutions, May 2010. Contributors: Eric Jean Desbois, Helios Pardell, Alfonso Negri, Thomas Kellner, Peter Posel, Thomas Kleinoeder, Bernard Maillet, Hervé Maisonneuve CONTENTS i. Introduction and Statement of Need 1.Current Climate and Opportunities in [...]

Code for Interactions with Companies (CMSS)

In April 2010, the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) announced the release of the CMSS Code for Interactions with Companies. The code provides detailed guidance to medical specialty societies on appropriate interactions with for-profit companies in the health care sector: Council of Medical Specialty Societies. Code for Interactions with Companies. Chicago: CMSS, 2010  From [...]

CME articles: Academic Medicine January 2010; 85 (1)

The January 2010 issue of Academic Medicine contains a number of articles of interest to CME  providers. The publisher is providing some of these these free of charge (for now). RSS feed for this issue Bellande BJ, Winicur ZM, Cox KM.  Commentary: Urgently needed: a safe place for self-assessment on the path to maintaining competence [...]

Professional medical associations and their relationships with industry (JAMA)

This article was published in JAMA in April 2009: Rothman DJ, McDonald WJ, Berkowitz CD, Chimonas SC, DeAngelis CD, Hale RW, Nissen SE, Osborn JE, Scully JH Jr, Thomson GE, Wofsy D. Professional medical associations and their relationships with industry: a proposal for controlling conflict of interest. JAMA 2009 Apr 1;301(13):1367-72. Professional medical associations (PMAs) [...]

Elsevier published a fake peer-reviewed journal for Merck

   According to Bob Grant, a blogger for The Scientist,  Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles–most of which presented data favorable to Merck products–that appeared to act solely as marketing tools [...]

Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice (IOM)

  The Institute of Medicine’s report on conflict of interest is now available for purchase or viewing on the IOM’s Web site.  In 2007, the IOM appointed the Committee on Conflict of Interest in Medical Research, Education, and Practice to examine conflicts of interest in medicine and to recommend steps to identify, limit, and manage [...]

Physician / Pharmaceutical Industry Relationship: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from the CACHE Open Access Library: Steinbrook R. Online disclosure of physician–industry relationships. N Engl J Med 2009;360:325-327. Steiner TJ.  Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry–report and recommendations of the Ethics Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia 2008 Sep;28 Suppl [...]

Funding of Continuing Health Education: Open Access Articles

The following articles are available free online from CACHE’s Open Access Library: Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA). American Medical Association. Report 1 of The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs: Industry Support of Professional Education in Medicine.[2008] Mamdani B. The ethics of industry support for professional education in medicine. Indian J Med Ethics [...]

Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry

  Just published in Cephalalgia [subscription required]: Steiner TJ. Ethical issues arising from commercial sponsorship and from relationships with the pharmaceutical industry–Report and Recommendations of the Ethics Subcommittee of the International Headache Society. Cephalalgia. 2008 Sep;28 Suppl 3:1-25.   Preface: These recommendations, the second set developed for the International Headache Society (IHS) by its Ethics [...]