Great idea. I'll start.
My wife, Sondra, and I own a "not for profit" 501(c)3 medical education business called The American Academy of CME, Inc. located in central New Jersey.
We are triple accredited to provide physician, pharmacist, and nursing continuing education credit.
Virtually all of the big medical conferences have many breakfast and dinner meetings that are not part of the conference that are supported by educational grants from the major pharmaceutical companies. Other "logistics providers" manage the function, from obtaining the meeting room, through getting the speakers there, etc. Most of these providers are not accredited to provide CME/CE credit to the atttendees and must partner with an accredited provider. AACME handles only the professional end of these meetings, such as selection of speakers, payment of their honoraria, summarizing the evaluations that the participants turn in, etc. etc. Most importantly, we award the participants their CME/CE credit, which many require in order to maintain their state medical licenses and other memberships. We also accredit monographs and CD-ROMS, which are booklets/CD-ROMS with tests at the end. Read the book, take the test, fax it to us, and if you pass, we send you a certificate.
We have been in business less than 2 years and business has exploded to the point where we have tripled our office size and doubled out staff. Only in America.
www.academycme.org

As an example, later this week, over two days, we have 5 conferences at the Oncology Nurses Society meeting in Denver, each of which has preregistered 700-1,200 attendees. At the same time, we are doing a meeting in Houston for physicians. We earn a lot of miles traveling around.


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