Special 125th Anniversary Issue – Bulletin

Annual Meeting Memories

The Residents’ Forum drew an attentive audience to hear K.J. Lee, MD.

Donna Sorkin, Executive Director of SHHH, presented an instruction course on helping people with hearing loss.

The silent auction to benefit the Adams Research Center attracted attendees to bid on rare books, gift and travel pack- ages, and medical equipment.

Dr. and Mrs. Ward dance the night away at the Gala.

The new layout of the Foundation booth allowed attendees to review products and services.

The Computer Learning Center offered an opportunity to sample new software.

Committee meetings wrapped around the four-day annual meeting. After a busy year, the Centennial Committee evaluated its ongoing activities.

The guest country Mexico was recog nized during the International reception.

Scientific sessions were well attended.

The new Corporate-Supported Educational Symposia provided science and breakfast — a great start to the day.

Exhibit Hall Booth Winners

Dr. Ward honors John Q. Adams for his support of the AAO-HNSF.

Multiple booth: Olympus

Island: Stryker Endoscopy

Single booth: WelchAllyn Latin American MD Inter- national Inc.

NASA Symposium attendees enjoyed an evening reception at the Air and Space Museum.

AAO-HNS BULLETIN /November 1996

AAO-HNS BULLETIN /November 1996

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greatest educational projects in the world for the benefit of eye, ear, nose, and throat specialists should be gratifying to all of us and must be a source of enduring satisfaction to Dr. Foster.” That was a pretty magical time By bringing our collective focus to one place at one time every year, the Annual Meeting presents the perfect opportunity for productive and disruptive change in our community. There are many excellent examples of these moments in our meeting history. The introduction of a committee structure in 1897 operationalized and invigorated volunteerism and enabled the subsequent widespread work of the Academy beyond the meeting. The Academy’s push to develop certifying boards guarding a common knowledge base during the meetings of the early 1900s refocused the field on professionalism and patient safety. The introduction of surgical films in the 1930s meetings revolutionized the methods of surgical training. The launch of the “Exhibition of Instrument, Office Equipment and Electric Apparatus,” the precursor of our greatest educa greatest educ greatest edu greatest ed

and course tickets that had been a component of the instruction program for almost a century. With the doors opened wide, attendance per session has steadily risen, at times making Dr Babbitt’s observation about rubbing elbows with colleagues all the more literal with improved access for all. The online platforms employed in the 2020 virtual meeting may represent yet another way to improve access to each year’s premier otolaryngology education for our entire community. Regardless of the live or virtual nature of the meeting platforms, the critical meeting resource remains the same—the minds and skills of our great teachers and the intellectual curiosity to incorporate their lessons into our daily practices. Reflecting in 1945 on the first 50 years of the Academy and our Annual Meeting education mission, President Dr. Gordon New wrote words that still seem relevant today, “... few societies have had the farsighted and necessary co-operation of its members to permit the development of a broad and useful instructional program. The fact that our society today represents one of the n a compo n a compone a component ourse tick d course tick and course tic and course ti and course t and course and cours

structured debate will be reemphasized. Some of the most important recent changes to the instructional program have regarded its organization and access. Under Dr. Mark Wax’s leadership, the Instruction Course Advisory Committee and Program Advisory Committee were united as the Annual Meeting Program Committee in 2016 and restructured, along with the meeting itself, around subspecialty education tracks incorporating all meeting platforms. This has allowed for more coordinated offerings in each subspecialty area to address focused educational gaps. Beginning in 2021 we will add a specialty track specifically for Professional and Personal Development, focusing on leadership, mentoring, wellness, communication, cultural competency, and issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the house of medicine. As the COVID 19 pandemic forced us to employ virtual instructional techniques during the 2020 Annual Meeting, it also opened us more than ever to the possibility of expanding the classroom well beyond the physical meeting space in the future. In recent years, Dr. Wax and Academy leadership eliminated the fees hasized. hasized asized sized ized zed d

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