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Print Document Fall 2007 Newsletter Article As this newsletter arrives, we will be thick in the final stages of planning for the 2008 Southern Regional Meeting which will be held Thursday thru Saturday, February 21-23, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Hotel InterContinental. The meeting will open on Thursday, February 21 with four workshops running from 1:00- 5:00 pm. The topics are Manuscript Preparation and Peer-Reviewed Publication, Career Development Workshop, Be a Better Teacher! Help Your Learners and Yourself and Introduction to Biostatistics. A Clinical Case Symposium derived from your colleagues’ abstract submissions will follow, and the day will end with a Joint Poster Session and Reception. On Friday, sessions will run from 8:00-5:00 and from 8:00-4:00 on Saturday. The Joint Plenary Session will be held on Saturday from 9:00-11:00 am and the topic will be Avian Influenza: Approaches to an Epidemic with Lessons from the Past. In addition, there will be a 3-hour Ambulatory Pediatric Association sponsored workshop entitled “Making Learning Fun for All: Working With Your Learner’s Differences” to be presented by Marney Gundlach and Rosina Connelly from Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital. The goal of the workshop is for participants to understand how different learning preferences can contribute to a positive or negative learning environment and apply this knowledge to help diagnose and correct behaviors from “problem learners.” In this interactive workshop, participants will explore how their own learning preferences can impact their teaching encounters. They will recognize their own teaching strengths and learn to adapt their teaching techniques to meet diverse individual learning preferences. Participants will collaborate to develop a flexible toolkit of teaching techniques that can enhance learning for different types of learners. Finally, participants will apply these techniques to help diagnose and correct behaviors from “problem-learners.” Workshop time will be announced closer to the meeting date. If you have not yet registered for this meeting, on-line registration is required this year. Please visit www.cme.tulane.edu to do so. The deadline is February 19, 2008. You can also reserve your room at the Hotel Intercontinental on-line by going to: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/ic/1/en/advancedsearch?whichtype=room&roomResult=none&hotelCode=msyha&quickRes=city&_GPC=A95. Hotel reservations must be made by January 20, 2008 in order to ensure a reservation. Please refer to the conference as the Southern Meetings when making reservations if you make them by phone. Look forward to seeing you all in the Big Easy! Remember, for those who will not be able to attend the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting in Hawaii from May 3-6, 2008, this is a great opportunity to network and learn. If you will be in Hawaii, we hope to see you in New Orleans as well! |