Support for a Regularly Scheduled Conference

The A. Webb Roberts Center is an Accredited Provider for the ACCME. This accreditation status allows the AWRC to designate educational activities for AMA PRA Category 1 credit™; and, therefore the AMA guidelines and ACCME Standards for Commercial Support apply. In adherence to these guidelines and standards, regularly scheduled conferences are supported through an independent medical grant. All grant funding must be made payable to the A. Webb Roberts Center; and, the amount needs to cover all applicable activity-related expenses. Expenses may include the following: speaker honorarium, speaker travel and accommodation, CME designation fee ($750), food/beverage charges and any other activity-related expenses. In the event the grant amount does not cover the total activity expenses, the company will be invoiced for the outstanding amount. If the grant exceeds the total activity expenses, the monies will be returned to the company. It has been our experience that many companies have a grant request process that does not involve the representative. If this is the case with your company, it would be most helpful if you would provide the grant request instructions (i.e., website address, grant department contact information, etc.) on the form below.

The process to support an AWRC-sponsored regularly scheduled conference (RSC) is as follows:

  1. Contact the RSC course director (Complete list of RSCs) to gain approval for the topic and speaker. (You must provide the course director with CVs from potential speakers. It is the responsibility of the course director to select the speaker and the content. You, as a representative of a commercial company, may not script the course director in this decision.)
  2. Once content and speaker are approved, reserve a date on the RSC calendar with the course director.
  3. Complete the following form providing these details.
First Name
Last Name
Title
Company Name
Preferred Address 1
Preferred Address 2
Preferred Address 3
City
State
ZIP
Daytime Phone
Fax
E-mail Address
Name of Conference
Date of Conference
Speaker Name
(as approved by course director)
Content
(as approved by course director)
Breakdown of Grant Amount
For example: Honorarium $1000, CME accreditation fee $750, food/beverage $800, etc.
Instruction to AWRC on grant submission process
Other