{"id":7637,"date":"2011-04-06T12:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T16:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:28","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:28","slug":"acc-will-eliminate-current-model-of-satellite-symposia-at-future-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/04\/06\/acc-will-eliminate-current-model-of-satellite-symposia-at-future-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC Will Eliminate Current Model of Satellite Symposia at Future Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACC announced yesterday that it plans to eliminate the current model of satellite symposia at future meetings. The decision &#8220;was prompted in part by ongoing concerns about real and\/or perceived  bias in interactions with industry, specifically related to  non-independence of certified satellite symposia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ACC has not worked out the details of the new plan, but mentioned two broad changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, the ACC will integrate &#8220;a limited number of ACC-developed CME-\/CE-certified \u2018in-depth focused sessions\u2019 into the overall ACC\/i2 Scientific Session planning framework. These in-depth focused sessions will be planned and developed by the Annual Scientific Session planning committees as enhanced options to the structured sessions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Second, the ACC&#8217;s Business Development Division will manage non-certified satellite symposia sponsored by industry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThis move is important because it will allow for transparency in the two separate approaches and meet the educational needs of our members,\u201d said Rick Nishimura, co-chair of the 2012 ACC\u2019s Annual Scientific Session, in an ACC press release.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more of our ACC.11 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials,   interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs   from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting,   check out our <a href=\"..\/acc-11-cardioexchange-coverage-roundup\/\">Coverage Roundup<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACC announced yesterday that it plans to eliminate the current model of satellite symposia at future meetings. The decision &#8220;was prompted in part by ongoing concerns about real and\/or perceived bias in interactions with industry, specifically related to non-independence of certified satellite symposia.&#8221; The ACC has not worked out the details of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[789,790],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cme","tag-satellite-symposia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}