Our next Winter Clinics medical education conference will be held in McCall Idaho February 27-March 2, 2025.
Please use this form to suggest a speaker or a topic OR to apply for consideration for yourself.
What Our Audience Wants:
Over half of our typical 100 attendees are primary care physicians and APPs, 15% IM, and a smattering of other specialties. Based on year-after-year feedback, these are the most important considerations:
- Clinical Pearls - what a physician can learn or understand and put to immediate use in the clinic when they return from the weekend is the highest factor in evaluating speakers. On the other hand, details that get too far in the weeds, whether statistical or physiological, should be left on the cutting floor.
- This year, we have decided presentations must fit within 40 minutes plus another 20 minutes allowed for audience questions/answers. This will require speakers with existing one-hour didactic material to focus in on the most salient knowledge.
- Engaging Speakers - skillful verbal presenters and those who design slides that aren't too heavy on details, get the highest ratings. We will be requiring a five-minute video demonstrating speaking skills from all speakers selected or a link to a previous presentation on a similar topic.
- Patient-Facing Physicians - our audience wants to hear from physicians who understand the multitudinous pressures they face in the clinic, not researchers and administrators.
- Specialty Guidance - what does a specialist/expert want the non-specialist to know about when to refer? what diagnostics to get ordered? how should they successfully manage a patient if referral times are lengthy or what can they manage indefinitely without referring?
- Evidenced-Based Medicine - while there is always a little room for personal opinions, and some commercially funded research may play into presentations, our audience is looking for citable and credible medicine.
- Current and Relevant Medical Topics - Our committee selects topics based on attendee feedback for talks they wish to hear from and environmental scanning of medical practice gaps. Non-clinical topics such as coding are rarely chosen, unless delivered by a physician.
- Honorarium/Speaker Fee -
- Treasure Valley Speakers: For each presentation hour including Q&A, ACMS provides a $500 speaker fee, plus one night stay at the Shore Lodge, meals, mileage expenses, and free registration for the remainder of the 12.0 credit conference.
- Out of Area Speakers: Negotiated speaker fee and travel reimbursement.
You may fill this form out as many times as you wish for speakers, but only one topic per submission. (For repeat submissions' required fields, you can just enter ibid. and we'll look to the first submission.)