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ANCO organizes an ambitious annual clinical and professional education meeting schedule consisting of an Annual Meeting, several Highlights programs, practice administrator meetings, and occasional special meetings. We also keep our members informed of other meetings of interest (in California and beyond), including ASCO's Annual Meeting and Symposia & Workshops.
The ANCO Education Committee and Board of Directors clinical education strategy (adopted in 2004) is as follows:
- ANCO has very successfully organized several annual Highlights programs over the past several years. These have been our best attended, supported, and received programs to date. ANCO will expand (i.e., add time, national faculty, locations, delivery systems) to our existing offerings (i.e., San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ASH, ASCO) and add additional Highlights programs.
- ANCO’s members have called for and our affiliation with the California Medical Association (CMA) make it more important than ever that we organize and hold an Annual Meeting to take place over several days (i.e., a weekend) and feature clinical and professional sessions for physicians, nurses, and practice managers.
- In light of a need for additional nursing continuing medical education and the PhRMA and OIG guidelines, ANCO will seek accreditation for ANCO clinical education meetings via our Institutional Members, other academic centers, ASCO, and possibly through IMQ/CMA.
- ANCO will only consider proposals for single-sponsor, evening clinical education dinner meetings that feature the highest quality speakers (i.e., thought leaders) on the most important clinical topics.
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ANCO's 2007 Annual Meeting: Be Prepared! took place on Friday, June 29th, and Saturday, June 30th, at the Hyatt Vineyard Creek, Santa Rosa.
ANCO's Annual Meeting was designed to:
• Update our physician members, nurse managers, and practice managers with the latest clinical, legislative/regulatory, and practice management information impacting the care of people with cancer.
• Provide continuing medical and professional education to physicians, nurses, and practice managers.
• Encourage and foster member relationships and member input to the Association.
Meeting materials are available here.
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| Clinical Education |
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ANCO's clinical education meetings, including Highlights meetings of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, ASH Annual Meeting, and ASCO Annual Meeting present distinguished speakers on pertinent clinical topics in oncology. Participants not only learn at these meetings, but they enjoy a social dinner atmosphere with their colleagues. In addition, ANCO helps organize Stanford’s annual Northern California Tumor Board at Silverado, and disseminates information about several clinical education programs per year organized by our Institutional Members.
Upcoming clinical education meetings (speakers, locations, dates) are:
• ANCO ASCO/ONS Highlights 2008
(Saturday, September 6th, Oakland)
Materials from recent clinical education meetings:
• San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium Highlights 2007
• ASH Highlights 2007
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