Purpose of attendance

The purpose and focus of all symposia, congresses and other promotional, scientific or professional meetings (an event ) for healthcare professionals, organised or sponsored by a company, should be to inform healthcare professionals about products and/or to provide scientific or educational information. 

The implication is that the main purpose of the event is scientific or educational, although this is not stated. 

Symposia are useful for disseminating information. The objective scientific content of such meetings should be paramount, and presentations by independent scientists and health professionals are helpful to this end. 

Their educational value may be enhanced if scientific or professional bodies organise them. 

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Reasons for discharge from maintenance include persistent opioid or other substance use, sporadic attendance, and aggressive behavior at the chnic. Although such patients undermine the purpose of treatment and the treatment milieu, it is often difficult to discharge them because clinicians generally believe that they would likely do worse without treatment. 

Surveys of professional lawn chemical applicators were conducted during the summer and fall of 2004. Subjects recruited included participants in Ohio State University s OARDC (Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center)-sponsored turf care professional educational seminars (Northeast Ohio Lawn Care Seminars). Approximately 300 professionals attended these events (held at the Wooster campus of Ohio State) to inform practitioners of best management practices, new technology, and health and safety issues. Participants included those who own and work in the lawn care industry in Ohio, spanning companies from small, one-person owner operated firms to large franchised national outfits. Professionals attend these seminars for purposes of certification participation in the survey was optional. 

The learning experiences you have confronted may be likened to the questions in a questionnaire on your style of managing. The purpose of the review in Chapter 2 of your internal processes was to heighten your awareness of aspects of yourself that you should be attending to in the course of the learning experience to come. It is now time to take stock of how well you were able to manage yourself ... 

This is the reason why, in recent years, the author has, at the request of the research departments of various big chemical concerns in the U.S.A., Great Britain and other countries in Western Europe, delivered lectures with the purpose of achieving possible applications in the different fields. In the past years the author has also discussed these subjects at Delft Technical University in special courses of optional lectures. Some of the students or graduates, who attended these lectures, have contributed to the further development of the methods and thus have developed new fields of application. 

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