Call for Candidates for Third Annual Presidential Scholar Award

he goal of the Presidential Scholar Award is to highlight research by faculty members in anesthesiology departments. The deadline for submissions for the 2005 award is May 15, 2005.

H. Thomas Lee, M.D., from Columbia University, New York, New York, won the second annual Presidential Scholar Award, which was presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Anesthesiologists who are within seven years of their first appointment to a department of anesthesiology, who are board-certified, are ASA members and who spend at least two days a week in clinical practice are eligible for this award. Further, nominees must be academically accomplished with peer-reviewed publications and funded research. Candidates should be nominated by their department chair or by the Committee on Research after review of the current year’s Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research grant applicants.

The completed application must include documentation of the qualifications listed above; current curriculum vitae; letters of support from the chair, two other senior faculty and two current residents, post doctorial students or fellows; copies of three most important peer-reviewed publications; and a current five-year academic plan with anticipated major contributions to the field of anesthesiology (two-page limit).

The Committee on Research will judge the applications and select a winner. The recipient of the third annual Presidential Scholar Award will be asked to present following the Emery A. Rovenstine Memorial Lecture in October 2005 in New Orleans,

New CME Product for 2005

n January 1, the journal Anesthesiology launched a new continuing medical education (CME) product. The Anesthesiology CME editor will choose an article out of each month’s journal and write thought-provoking questions (three to six each month) 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. By subscribing to the program and answering those questions via the Internet, the user can receive up to one hour of category 1 CME credit per month.

All interactions (subscriptions, questions and answers and CME credit) will be completed via the Internet. All journal readers, members and nonmembers, are invited to participate in the program. A user may choose to sign up for a year’s subscription or for one month at a time.

Subscription rates are as follows:
Members: $60 for a calendar year; 12 issues from January to December. $10 for a single month; user may purchase more than one single month at a time.
Nonmembers: $90 for a calendar year; 12 issues from January to December. $15 for a single month; user may purchase more than one single month at a time.

The user will have until December 31 of the year following the year of publication (i.e., December 31, 2006, for the 2005 publications) to view the article, complete the questions and receive CME credit.

The user must receive a score of 50 percent or greater to receive CME credit. If, after answering the questions, the user has not received a passing score, he or she is given the opportunity to repeat the questions.

This Internet site is hosted by ASA, not the journal. For more information, visit <www.ASAhq.org/journal-cme>. For inquiries and questions, please contact Jennifer Braun, ASA Clinical Affairs Manager, at (847) 825-5586 or e-mail <j.braun@ASAhq.org>.