According to BTN Online:

Taro Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. earlier this year mandated all meeting sponsors to broaden the range of spending categories and base budgets on a cost-per-attendee metric. In doing so, the midmarket firm’s finance and executive committees have received better information on which to base forecasts of meetings spending and decisions on meetings requests.

Imagine, just a little Excel spreadsheet can make such a big difference.

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I didn’t personally know the six physicians who died in a plane crash on their way to a medical conference at the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine on Oct. 19, but my heart goes out to all whose lives they touched. It’s a terrible thing when random tragedy strikes those who were dedicated to increasing humanism in medicine, the topic of the conference they were on their way to attend.

Be safe. Be well. Help to carry their legacy forward by educating your participants in how they can provide more compassionate care to their patients in this time-crunched, depersonalized healthcare world.

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The November 1 issue of the Medical Journal of Australia contains the sixth entry in the Teaching on the run tips series. Here are the citations for all six tips articles. The PubMed links will connect you to free full text.

Lake FR, Hamdorf JM. Teaching on the run tips 6: determining competence. Med J Aust 2004; 181(9):502-503.

PubMed

Lake FR. Teaching on the run tips: doctors as teachers. Med J Aust 2004; 180(8):415-416.

PubMed link

Anne Taylor-Vaisey recently posted a link to the Spring 2004 issue of New Directions for Teaching & Learning (Issue 97) (for publisher link, click here). It’s all about faculty learning communities. Anne’s exerpt from the editor’s notes read:

The FLC approach offers great potential for addressing institutional interests by connecting colleagues across disciplines and departments, and the FLC movement is ready to expand from the colleges and universities of early practitioners to institutions that are willing to explore and initiate FLC programs. These early practitioners, the authors of the chapters in this book, explain how and why.

Maybe this exists for faculty of CME activities, but I haven’t heard of it. Wouldn’t it be great if the FLC movement expands beyond universities to all those who provide education, particularly for continuing adult learners? I’ve been hearing so much lately about faculty issues that go way beyond honoraria creep. I think building a faculty learning community for CME faculty could go a long way toward resolving at least some of these issues. What do you think?

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Here are the contents of the latest issue of New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education Autumn 2004; Issue 103:

Developing and Delivering Adult Degree Programs (subscription required; also, you can purchase individual issues)

In this volume, we explore the origin and develoment of pioneering adult degree programs, examine current adult degree programs and practices, and review key issues related to the development and delivery of adult degree programs.

Publisher Web site

Thanks to Anne Taylor-Vaisey for the reminder about the AAMC meeting next week (Nov. 7-10) in Boston. If you’re going, check the schedule, available online here. For links to the RIME abstracts, click here. For more on the SACME fall 2004 program that will be held in conjunction with AAMC, click here.

I’m so excited to be able to attend this year. I hope to be able to meet some of you in Boston next week!

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Thanks to Anne Taylor-Vaisey for the reminder about the AAMC meeting next week (Nov. 7-10) in Boston. If you’re going, check the schedule, available online here. For links to the RIME abstracts, click here. For more on the SACME fall 2004 program that will be held in conjunction with AAMC, click here.

I’m so excited to be able to attend this year. I hope to be able to meet some of you in Boston next week!

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Interesting article on Scotsman.comabout women in the workforce. Specifically, it looks at the notion that just getting “women into those high-status jobs from which tradition, culture, nepotism and prevailing imagery debar them and, bingo, they ll get paid more.” Not going to work, the writer says, using the medical field as an example.

Another, much larger problem with the aim of trying to feminise male-dominated professions is the likelihood that as soon as the gender balance has shifted, the given profession will get devalued. That is exactly what has happened in medicine, according to Dr Carol Black - only the second woman in 500 years to serve as president of the Royal College of Physicians.



Over the past 20 years, women have become well represented among the higher ranks of medicine, as consultants, hospital managers and in the analytical field of medical education. And at university level, female medical students now outnumber males by 61% to 39%. Black, one would have presumed, would be cheering.




But last August she went public with a controversial plea for more men to enter medicine in order to reverse its decline in status. What she didn t say - but what was clearly implied - was that if her plea was heeded, in the future there would be less room in medicine for women.

The Academy of General Dentistry announced today that it has hired Maria Anderson to serve as Program Specialist in Dental Education, providing program and administrative support to the American Board of General Dentistry (ABGD) including written correspondence and database maintenance and reporting. Anderson will process and track ABGD exam

applications and assist in the development and distribution of ABGD exam materials. She will support the production and administration of the ABGD Exam and AGD’s Fellowship Exam.

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