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The AAAC has the goal of creating and fostering effective communication between academic anesthesiology chairs of departments that exist in an LCME approved medical school and who are the primary host of an ACGME core program in Anesthesiology. To date, the AAAC website has not been used as a primary tool of communication, as many of the members favor direct communication. This communication can happen at the yearly society meeting, through interaction via the chair’s list-serve and personal interactions, which have been fostered by the many engaging debates and conversations that occur at the yearly meeting. The yearly meeting is structured to mentor new chairs and introduce those new chairs to their more senior colleagues. Mentoring attempts to focus on helping the new chairs understand rules that apply to their role (e.g. ACGME, CMS rules) and to help them establish relationships with other more senior chairs who can act as content experts, while also providing their opinion about particular common and uncommon challenges that are encountered by new chairs. The yearly meeting also serves as a refresher course of more senior chair to make sure that they are up to date with all of the new rules and to learn about any new opportunities that may exist to improve their abilities as chair and the achievement of their department. At a time when we are all dealing with shrinking resources, it is critical that we collaborate with each other to avoid wasteful expense in program development that others have tried and found to be unsuccessful. In addition, it is the hope of AAAC council that interactions at our national meeting will foster collaboration in scholarship that will ultimately improve our ability to provide excellent care for our patients, train the best perioperative physicians and to be most effective with our business practices.
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