George Margelis wrote: > Essentially it would be a forum where clinicians can get together to hear a > few eminent speakers, > be involved in a few panels, and > join in on robust debate from the floor. > Hopefully it will be educational, thought provoking and give rise to some new > ideas we can pursue > as research and policy as we go forward.
Based on past experiences of myself and others, the key for getting clinicians to conferences is lots and lots of notice: 4-5 months at the least. Even if you announce the date before the location. Long weekends are good. Even then, a lot of people who you want aren't going to be there, so IMHO I would aggressively pursue online technologies: stream a video feed from the conference floor, the chair should have a laptop running an IRC session to read real-time comments from online attendees, who should be registered and pay a (discounted) fee. The video should then be placed on a public archive, see example: http://www.actsofvolition.com/archives/2005/may/guadecvideo Ian _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
