Comments on: If the pharmaceutical industry won’t pay for CME, who will? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90736 Anonymous Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90736 The requirements for CME are just rent seeking by medical schools. In my field they are a waste of time. The requirements for CME are just rent seeking by medical schools. In my field they are a waste of time.

]]> By: jktwawhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90731 jktwaw Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90731 who cares who pays? perhaps it is the requirement of cme for licensure which is misguided. any proof that better patient outcomes occur from cme certified providers? are malpractice rates higher or lower in n.y, co., vt. where cme is not required? who cares who pays? perhaps it is the requirement of cme for licensure which is misguided. any proof that better patient outcomes occur from cme certified providers? are malpractice rates higher or lower in n.y, co., vt. where cme is not required?

]]> By: Frank Drackmanhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90725 Frank Drackman Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:43:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90725 There's plenty of free CME available on the Internets, and if you're quick you can do most states requirements in about 1/2 an hour...or if you're conscientious, take an ACLS course.. the Conference thing is just a tax scam, a way to stick it to Joe Q. Public, the way they stick it to us, now excuse me, gotta fill out my RSVP for "Frontiers in Constipation"<br/><br/>Frank There’s plenty of free CME available on the Internets, and if you’re quick you can do most states requirements in about 1/2 an hour…or if you’re conscientious, take an ACLS course.. the Conference thing is just a tax scam, a way to stick it to Joe Q. Public, the way they stick it to us, now excuse me, gotta fill out my RSVP for “Frontiers in Constipation”

Frank

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90718 Anonymous Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:28:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90718 The pharmaceutical industry doesn't have to support CME. It can support individual doctor's websites instead. Then what? It's not going to do anything to improve objectivity. <br/><br/>Dr. Oz's site is a good example. He has the image of being the "good doctor". Yet his site is supported by the pharmaceutical industry. In exchange, sponsored pharmaceutical companies can send prospective candidates info a drug or drugs that maybe suitable to them. Clever but "sly" marketing...<br/><br/>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/technology/internet/26privacy.html?_r=3&ref=business The pharmaceutical industry doesn't have to support CME. It can support individual doctor's websites instead. Then what? It's not going to do anything to improve objectivity.

Dr. Oz's site is a good example. He has the image of being the "good doctor". Yet his site is supported by the pharmaceutical industry. In exchange, sponsored pharmaceutical companies can send prospective candidates info a drug or drugs that maybe suitable to them. Clever but "sly" marketing…

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/technology/internet/26privacy.html?_r=3&ref=business

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90717 Anonymous Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90717 this is no big deal. CME cost for non-pharma CME is not a huge expense. I usually spend about 300 to 400 a year. <br/><br/>The costs could be much lower if docs got the cme accreditors to make it easier for local medical society to accredit CME programs. Some of the requirements for accreditation of CME are silly and to the extent that they have any effect at all only render it more vacuous. this is no big deal. CME cost for non-pharma CME is not a huge expense. I usually spend about 300 to 400 a year.

The costs could be much lower if docs got the cme accreditors to make it easier for local medical society to accredit CME programs. Some of the requirements for accreditation of CME are silly and to the extent that they have any effect at all only render it more vacuous.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90714 Anonymous Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:32:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90714 i have always paid for my cme, when I get industry funded cme it was always a little bit less useful to me so i pay..<br/><br/>uptodate is where i get almost of all of my cme.s i have always paid for my cme, when I get industry funded cme it was always a little bit less useful to me so i pay..

uptodate is where i get almost of all of my cme.s

]]> By: Dr. Matthew Mintzhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90713 Dr. Matthew Mintz Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90713 If we ban pharma from sponsoring CME, there is a huge void to fill. It is unlikely the individual physicians will pay for this. There are some solutions.<br/>See my recent post on this at www.drmintz.com. If we ban pharma from sponsoring CME, there is a huge void to fill. It is unlikely the individual physicians will pay for this. There are some solutions.
See my recent post on this at http://www.drmintz.com.

]]> By: Bad Medicine, Good Solutionshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90712 Bad Medicine, Good Solutions Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:21:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90712 Really? The physician will cover it? Not likely. The patient in some hidden fashion will. I see this as part of doing the business of medicine. Put a fee into each office visit and have it be paid per patient at the same time as the copay.<br/><br/>Do it openly, too, so the patient knows what bureaucracy their money has to help fund. Really? The physician will cover it? Not likely. The patient in some hidden fashion will. I see this as part of doing the business of medicine. Put a fee into each office visit and have it be paid per patient at the same time as the copay.

Do it openly, too, so the patient knows what bureaucracy their money has to help fund.

]]> By: Dr. IKEhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/04/if-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for.html#comment-90710 Dr. IKE Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/04/if-the-pharmaceutical-industry-wont-pay-for-cme-who-will.html#comment-90710 Chiropractors have always paid for continuing education hours, though I'm certain costs are helped by vendor sponsors displaying their goods on the way into the classroom areas. <br/><br/>Sorry, looks like our medical brethren are heading that way, too. Chiropractors have always paid for continuing education hours, though I’m certain costs are helped by vendor sponsors displaying their goods on the way into the classroom areas.

Sorry, looks like our medical brethren are heading that way, too.

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