Medical conferences: value for money?

Value for Money

The Value of Conferences

an ever-widening circle : the audience included many representatives of local authorities and of industry from all over the country, as well, of course, as of the medical and nursing professions and the social services. It is, therefore, perhaps pertinent to enquire in this journal what are the greatest benefits of such a conference. Its success in the past and its present standing should be a ...

Discharge reductions--value for money?

Through the Nuclear Liabilities Management Authority White Paper, the UK Government and the Regulators have signalled a commitment to further improving the operation of the regulatory regime and to its operating within the principles of proportionality, transparency, consistency and accountability which underpin the Government's approach to regulation in general. Particular emphasis is placed u...

Are medical conferences useful? And for whom?

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED BY MEDICAL SOCIETIES and related organizations are a dominant feature of the academic, professional, and social life of all health-related disciplines. These events come in all sizes, from relatively small, local gatherings, workshops, and symposia to large international megacongresses that mobilize tens of thousands of clinicians, researchers, exhibitors, and staff to bui...

The cost of medical conferences

Dr John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science and questioning everything from surgical habits to drug studies. He has now decided to attack a major cultural institution of medicine: the conference. In a provocative piece in JAMA (the Journal of the American Medical Association) [1] he questions the value of attending scientific conferences. It’s a th...