Our program co-chairs, Cara Laitusis and Sandip Sinharay from ETS, produced a wonderful program for our annual meeting in New Orleans. Please also join us in extending our deepest appreciation for all of their efforts. Thank you!
This year’s NCME program included 17 training sessions, 17 invited sessions, 28 coordinated sessions and 236 individual papers. We had over 359 NCME reviewers participate in reviewing the submitted proposals. In nearly all cases each proposal was reviewed by at least three NCME members.
It was difficult to find enough expert reviewers for several key areas—we request all of you to volunteer to be reviewers to ensure a fair and efficient proposal review process.
This year’s NCME program included a few changes such as including three new session formats (debate, historical perspective, and an open forum on the Joint Standards). Feedback on these sessions indicated that most members would like to see these session formats included in future programs.