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January 2002
Volume 66
Number 1
   
Nominations for Distinguished
Service Award


The House of Delegates has established policies governing the selection of a recipient for the ASA’s Distinguished Service Award. Procedures for the submission of nominations and selection of a candidate for 2002 will be as follows:

1. Any member of ASA or a component society may submit the names of individuals for consideration for this award.

2. Nominations must be submitted on the nomination forms, which may be obtained from the ASA Executive Office, together with a current curriculum vitae.

3. Nomination forms should be submitted to:
Neil Swissman, M.D.
5450 W. Sahara Ave., Suite #340
Las Vegas, NV 89146

4. Nomination forms must bear a postal mailing date on or before August 1, 2002.

5. The committee will review the names of nominees submitted and recommend to the House of Delegates the name of no more than one candidate. Selection of a candidate shall require a two-thirds vote of the full committee.

6. No officer of ASA shall be eligible for selection.

7. Should the committee select a candidate to enter into nomination in the House of Delegates, the name of the candidate shall not be disclosed until placed in nomination before the House of Delegates.

8. Final selection of the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award shall be made by the House of Delegates by secret ballot and shall require a two-thirds vote of those seated in the House of Delegates.

28th National In-Training Exam Set for July 13, 2002

The ABA-ASA Joint Council on In-Training Examinations encourages all trainees in anesthesiology to participate in the 28th National In-Training Examination to be given July 13, 2002.

The examination last year was challenging and stimulating to trainees and rewarding to program directors. The 2001 examination will be identical in format. Keyword feedback will be supplied to examinees and program directors, and scores will be provided to enable the examinees to compare their performances to that of all other residents at the same training level and to track their own growth in knowledge. Each program director will receive a summary of the performance of all trainees in that program, including every year each trainee has participated.

Application forms have been sent to all program directors, and residents in training are urged to obtain the form from their program director and to complete it as soon as possible. Canadian trainees have been invited to participate again this year. Applications can be submitted only by the program director and must be received at the ASA Executive Office on or before May 1, 2002. The examination will cost $85 per examinee.

Application information relating to the In-Training Examination is available to program directors from the ASA Executive Office, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573; or contact <J.Jacobson@ASAhq.org>.

Any other questions may be directed to Raymond C. Roy, M.D., Wake Forest University Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009; <rroy@wfubmc.edu>.


 


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