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 Medical Meeting Professionals

Enhance your expertise in medical meeting management with our course, designed to empower your proficiency in compliance, sustainability, and industry best practices.
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    CMP HeadshotCertificate Program  Emerging Professionals (0 - 3 years)    

As a result of COVID, the great resignation, talent loss, talent shifts, inflation, emotional and physical burnout, customer behavior change and other factors, there are many new planners who need to be professionally trained on the science of planning medical meetings. Experienced planners may also need to upskill their education. The healthcare world can be complex and confusing, and having the Medical Meeting Planning (MMP) Certificate can mitigate risks and consequences.

An individual who obtains their MMP certificate is someone with knowledge of relevant planning, terminologies, processes, and compliance regulations for healthcare meetings. Knowledge and expertise in basic medical meeting planning will assist in understanding and practical operations sufficient to assist the meeting professional in understanding and addressing obligations and skills.

After completing the Medical Meeting Professional certificate program, you'll be ready to...

  • Understand what qualifies as a medical meeting.
  • Learn the steps of planning medical meetings.
  • Execute areas of planning medical meetings, including sourcing, transportation, food and beverage, speakers, tradeshows and exhibits and productions.
  • Develop budgets, billing and analytics associated with planning medical meetings.
  • Determine how sustainability, safety procedures and best practices play a role in planning medical meetings.
  • Learn the role of compliance and ethics in planning medical meetings.
  • 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

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.

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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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