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 Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate

Navigate the complexities of healthcare and pharmaceutical meetings with ease with a certificate that empowers professionals with essential regulatory knowledge and critical thinking skills.
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    CMP HeadshotCertificate Program  Emerging Professionals (0 - 3 years)    

Planning healthcare and pharmaceutical meetings is complex work, where any number of crucial components could slip through the cracks. Planners and suppliers equally must balance multiple aspects: event design, navigating frequent changes in global compliance and regulations, and delivering ROI to their companies, attendees and destinations. All this begs the question: Are your healthcare meetings compliant?

Designed for medical meeting professionals and the partners they work with, MPI’s Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate offers a broad understanding of regulatory topics, laying competency groundwork upon which critical thinking skills are developed, through case studies, business simulation, discussion and active exercises.

This intensive, four-hour program provides healthcare meeting compliance stakeholders with the knowledge and experience they need to successfully navigate the increasingly complex pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device regulatory environment.

After completing the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate, you'll be ready to become compliant in planning your next event.

  • Oversee process reporting management across a variety of sectors, regions and countries.
  • Meet new reporting and submission timelines and understand transfers of values, and what that means for events.
  • Apply the who, what, where and how of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act (Open Payments), and other global compliance initiatives.
  • Verify your credential with a digital badge to add to your email, social media and more.

Your HMCC certificate is valid for two years, requiring a refresher course to maintain. MPI requires all current HMCC holders to attend a refresh webinar at the two-year anniversary of their class date. The HMCC Refresher course was developed to keep our Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate recipients abreast of constantly changing healthcare meeting compliance regulations, cross-border compliance, CMS Open Payments changes and updates, the EFPIA Disclosure Code, and other healthcare trends.

Prerequisites for certificate extension are:
  • Must attend the required webinar in the notification period sent to you by MPI
  • Must validate current contact information
  • Must register and make payment fees to MPI
Pat Schaumann

President of Schaumann Consulting Group, LLC.

Pat is the President of Schaumann Consulting Group, LLC. Pat is the author of “Breaking the Code to Healthcare Compliance”, 5th Edition, a health policy resource book for meeting professionals, physicians and manufacturers that addresses the impact of the National Physician Payment Transparency Program: Open Payments (formally the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) and global cross-border compliance.

The book is the resource for the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate program being offered globally through MPI, St. Louis University and the Convention Industry Council CMP-HC certification program.

She is also the Executive Editor of the newly released “MPI CMP Healthcare Training Manual and “The Guide to Successful Destination Management”. Pat is a contributing editor to 5 editions of the CIC Manual. Pat was named by Meetings Today as one of the 2016 Meetings Trendsetters and was again named one of the Top 25 Women in the Meetings Industry 2017. She was recently recognized, for the third time, by Successful Meetings magazine as one of the 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry.

She has served as an adjunct Professor at 4 universities and currently Co-chairs the Hospitality Management Industry Advisory Board at St. Louis University’s School of Professional Studies and serves as faculty for the Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate. Pat founded and is a member of the MPI-MD Advisory Board and is Chair of the Saint Louis University Hospitality Board of Directors.

 Members: $513.99  ●  Non-Members: $713.99
 6 Clock hours
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