"REAL WORLD CASES" WANTED - TOP

The organizing committee for the SAMBA 20th Annual Meeting is currently looking for interesting patient cases to be presented at its "Cases from the Real World" session. If you have any cases you think would be of interest to others involved with ambulatory anesthesia, please submit them to sambameetings@asahq.org.

The SAMBA Committee on Office-Based Anesthesia is conducting a Web-based survey to gauge the scope of practice in this fluid environment and to determine the needs of office anesthesia practitioners.  The results of the survey will be used by the Board of Directors to help the Society target products and services to this segment of SAMBA’s growing membership. Please take a moment to complete this important survey by going to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=98630596681.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE   - TOP

Submission of abstracts for presentation at the SAMBA 20th Annual Meeting in May 2005 is now available through the SAMBA Web site. Abstracts presented at the SAMBA Annual Meeting are eligible for presentation at subsequent meetings of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and the International Anesthesia Research Society. A limited number of Resident Travel Awards will be presented to anesthesiology residents whose scientific abstracts are accepted for presentation at the Annual Meeting.

Only abstracts submitted electronically will be considered for grading. The deadline to submit abstracts is February 15, 2005.

SAMBA CURRICULUM GUIDELINES - TOP

The SAMBA Committee on Education has completed developing the curriculum guidelines for medical student and anesthesia resident rotations in ambulatory anesthesia, as well as fellowships in ambulatory anesthesia. These guidelines are now available here.

NEW CME PRODUCT AVAILABLE - TOP

The journal Anesthesiology is offering a new CME product. Each month, the Anesthesiology CME Editor will choose an article and write thought-provoking questions associated with that article. The article, questions and learning objectives, along with an explanation of the program, will appear each month in the printed journal. Participants in the program can earn up to one hour of CME credit per month.

All interactions (subscriptions, questions & answers and CME credit) will be completed via the Internet. All Anesthesiology readers - ASA members and nonmembers - are invited to participate in the program. A participant may choose to sign up for a year's subscription or for one month at a time. Further information is available at www.asahq.org/journal-cme.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AMBULATORY SURGERY - TOP