[optimal] Re: Re-Cert. change ?
- From: Hasan Omairah <shagroon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Optimal Freelist <optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:52:27 +0300
Well; for me that's 13 hours of non-stop flight to the USA if the AAO-OPS
meeting is going to be held @the east coast, and 16 hours of non-stop flight if
its going to be @the west coast. My last OPS meeting @San Fran it was 16 hours!
plus a connecting flight from Riyadh to Dubai. Furthermore it will take longer
if I have to have a flight connection somewhere in-between. This is the case
for me, and for some of my colleagues here in Saudi Arabia.
I made it last year to the UK for ICOP meeting where it had to take a 6 hours
non-stop flight from Riyadh to London.
I'd love to attend every year for the OPS meetings, and I wouldn't miss it; but
calculating the cost, and flying time makes it quite discouraging, as my
employer will not pay or help for a yearly trip, but will help if I take one
every three years or so! :(
I hope this piece of information would count
Thank you
Hasan Omairah AAS COT OCT-C CRA
King Faisal Specialist Hospital
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
I still find
each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I
want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want
to see" -John Burroughs
> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:57:41 -0700
> From: serarphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: optimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [optimal] Re-Cert. change ?
>
> Hi, A question for the powers that be. The AAO, thus the OPS, will not be on
> the West Coast for some time to come. 5 units of the total 15 must be from
> OPS or OPS approved classes. Some of us may not want to part with the $$$ to
> go cross country to attend the meeting. So we get to take online classes that
> are a total waste of time. Is it possible that in the years that there is no
> West Coast OPS stuff that attending more informative retina meetings or the
> like be o.k. for the remaining 5 units just like they are o.k. for the first
> 10 units ? Could this change be made ? Thanks, Ben Serar
>
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