Anesthesiology conferences

[Seba]

I am a CA-1. Bored to death doing a month in the pre-op assessment clinic and dreaming about going on a dept paid anesthesia conference. I was looking at the ASA website. Damn there are a ton of conferences! My question is when you go to these conferences in say Vail, CO do they keep track of whether or not you show up to the lectures or can you just snow boaard all day and not worry about it?

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[periopdoc]

I would be cautious if I were you. The ABA/RRC Joint Council on Compliance in Resident Education tends to monitor these faux meetings very closely. JCCRE members have been known to attend these meetings for the purpose of enforcement. They document individuals who frequently leave after the first few minutes of lecture, and compare that list to the hours of claimed attendance by residents. Discrepancies are forwarded to the residency programs and residents can face penalties up to and including formal JCCRE "re-education."

If you want to abuse your meeting leave to get a free vacation, then I would stick to the major meetings like ASA where the sheer number of attendees makes it much harder for the JCCRE to identify residents who are abusing the system. Or just quit trying to gyp your fellow residents into taking additional call so that you get an extra week of skiing in.

-pod

 

[OB1🤙]

Well played, sir.

I would be cautious if I were you. The ABA/RRC Joint Council on Compliance in Resident Education tends to monitor these faux meetings very closely. JCCRE members have been known to attend these meetings for the purpose of enforcement. They document individuals who frequently leave after the first few minutes of lecture, and compare that list to the hours of claimed attendance by residents. Discrepancies are forwarded to the residency programs and residents can face penalties up to and including formal JCCRE "re-education."

If you want to abuse your meeting leave to get a free vacation, then I would stick to the major meetings like ASA where the sheer number of attendees makes it much harder for the JCCRE to identify residents who are abusing the system. Or just quit trying to gyp your fellow residents into taking additional call so that you get an extra week of skiing in.

-pod