Professional Conferences

Application of the Congresses, Conferences, Symposia, Seminars, Workshops, and Journal Clubs in Continuing Professional Development

Continuing professional development (CPD) or continuing professional education (CPE) refers to lifelong learning, which is done for professionals in order to update specialized knowledge, skills, attitudes, ethical issues, and moral values after admission to a particular profession. Therefore, due to the increasing growth of knowledge in all areas of specialization, particularly in the field of...

Interactive continuing education workshops or conferences can improve professional practice and patient outcomes.

Study selection Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies with contemporaneous data collection, involved qualified health professionals or post graduate trainees, examined the effect of planned educational activities, and objectively measured health professional practice behaviour or patient outcomes. Studies were excluded if allocation...

No pens, no coffee, no food: how new regulations changed professional conferences.

The 36th Annual Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Congress will be held April 28 through May 1, 2011, in Boston, MA. New regulations have changed how healthcare organizations and professional societies such as ONS may run conferences. Conference participants probably will notice the changes.

Cheating Death-by-PowerPoint: Effective Use of Visual Aids at Professional Conferences

We critique the typical use of visual aids at political science conferences and make suggestions about more effective ways to incorporate them into presentations. Our main suggestions are that political scientists should use fewer and simpler slides, and that those slides should contain visually rich information that illustrates a speaker’s point without distracting the audience from his or her...

Past Conferences