Below is a copy of the letter sent to ADMSEP Members:

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March 22, 2002

 

 

Dear ADMSEP Members and Friends:

 

The 28th Annual ADMSEP meeting will take place from Thursday, June 13 through Saturday, June 15, 2002 at the Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, Florida. We have applied for 9.75 hours of CME through the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

 

At this year’s meeting we will have a very exciting and stimulating educational program. The agenda is well balanced in terms of different types of learning environments; we will have Plenary, Workshop, and Poster Sessions on a variety of timely and useful topics.  We will also be able to gather for formal and informal educational discussions and share our valuable experiences.  This opportunity to learn from each other in such a beautiful setting is not to be missed.  Rekindling old friendships and making new friends is one of the high points of every ADMSEP meeting.  The Key Biscayne resort offers a tropical setting, yet is close to South Beach and downtown Miami.  Our hotel accommodations are luxurious and elegant (yet affordable).

 

Here are some of the highlights of the meeting:

 

Plenary Sessions will focus on several key issues: updates on policy and education issues, our student’s attitudes about psychiatry as a specialty, educator’s responses after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, educational innovations, and career choice issues.

 

Workshops will focus on using technology as an educational resource, the stress our students experience and how to respond, clerkship director issues, self-awareness concepts applied to our students, what new federal regulations (HIPPA) will mean to medical education, new course development, and last but not least, how to win a teaching award!

 

Special Interest Groups discussion of topics of importance to the membership, such as, monitoring psychiatry departments “report cards” related to medical education.

 

Poster Sessions will highlight the latest educational research and will feature innovative teaching approaches. 

 

We want to encourage you to bring examples of your teaching strategies and materials to share with others at the meeting.


The Sonesta Beach Resort Key Biscayne is a premium hotel with ocean or island/bay views throughout.  It is a 20-minute drive from downtown Miami, the South Beach area, and the Miami International Airport.  Taxi fare from the airport to the hotel is estimated at $32.  This is a full service resort with spa facilities, shopping on site, tennis and many water sport activities.  The Crandon Park Golf Course is located 2 miles from the hotel.  South Beach activities include the Miami Seaquarium and the famous Art Deco District.  Deep Sea fishing charters are available, one mile from the resort.  Please note, as this is a premium hotel the food costs are higher than in past years.  We have offered 2 options for guest meals to try to be more accommodating (see registration form). 

 

Make reservations directly with the Sonesta Beach Resort 305-361-2021, or register via email with Elizabeth Dubon edubon@sonesta-kb.com

Information about the resort is available on the web at

http://www.sonesta.com/keybiscayne  

 

The ADMSEP block of rooms will be held only until May 19, 2002. It is critical that you identify yourself as reserving a room at the ADMSEP rate. We are offered a special rate of $174.38 (this includes 12.5% tax).  You are required to put down a first night's deposit.

 

Enclosed with this letter are the following materials:

 

1.      Meeting Registration Form:

Deadline: May 31, 2002

Send form and a check for $395.00 payable to ADMSEP to

Tamara L. Gay, M.D.

University of Michigan

Med Inn C418

1500 E. Medical Center Dr.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0840

           

2.      2002 ADMSEP membership and dues form:

Return to:   Theodore B. Feldmann, M.D.

                  Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

                  University of Louisville School of Medicine

                  500 South Preston Street, Room 209-3, “A” Building

                  Louisville, KY 40292

                  Telephone (502) 852-5431

                 

 

3.      Schedule of Meeting Events

 

See you in Key Biscayne!!

 

Tamara Gay, M.D., Program Chair

Carl Greiner, M.D., Facilities Chair