From the American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific Assembly in Boston.
The new president of the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), Dr. Lori Heim, wants you to know that the AAFP is politically connected. During her presidential address at the AAFP’s annual meeting, she touted the organization’s advocacy credentials. AAFP leaders have met personally with [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘medical meetings’
October 14, 2009
A Seat at the Table
October 6, 2009
If We Couldn’t Laugh, We Would All Go Insane
From the American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly, Boston
I’m convinced that emergency physicians were, or wanted to be, in theater when they were in high school. This is the second time I’ve covered the ACEP annual scientific assembly, and I’m struck again by how much fun it is to listen to the emergency docs.
Even [...]
August 1, 2009
What we’ve got here is failure to communicate
from a medical meeting somewhere in the United States
The range of media policies at medical meetings never fails to amaze me. Some medical organizations are incredibly media savvy. They provide press rooms, press conferences providing easy access to medical experts, and go out of their way to hook reporters up with speakers and quiet places for [...]
May 19, 2009
Poster sessions done right
If you’re a reporter covering the American Psychiatric Assocation meeting here’s my advice: Ignore the plenary sessions. Ignore the symposia. Ignore the workshops. Ignore the medical courses. And spend most of your time and energy on the poster sessions.
Anyone who knows my approach to covering medical conferences knows that I love poster sessions. It’s possible [...]
May 5, 2009
An Open Letter to Poster Presenters
From the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies, Baltimore:
Dear Pediatric Academic Societies meeting poster presenter, or any poster presenter:
If you don’t care about getting your research published in the medical, trade, and lay press, whose reporters are furiously scouring the poster hall for stories, this post is not for you. Probably there are a [...]
October 24, 2008
The Gender of Medicine
From the Kennedy Krieger Annual Autism Conference in Baltimore, MD:
EGMN writers have a very unique perspective on medicine. We cover medical meetings in dozens of specialties every year. This breadth allows us to see patterns that might not be so obvious to anyone, who attends meetings in a single specialty. One of the things that I [...]
