The primary reason for the establishment of the Lima Area Medical Education Development Corporation was a desire to facilitate and improve the process by which the physicians in the greater Lima area obtained continuing medical education. In addition the corporation endeavors to produce activities which will help physicians comply with the relicensure mechanisms of the State of Ohio. Therefore LAMED’s designated target audience is the physician population in the greater Lima area. Efforts to expand the services offered by LAMED to non-physician populations must be carefully monitored so that neither the objective nor the subjective appeal of our programming to the physician audience is eroded. While allied health groups have legitimate educational needs, those needs are not necessarily the concern of LAMED and are not the reason that LAMED exists.

 

Specifically, it must always remain the case that curricula be designed first and foremost to satisfy the needs of the physicians. At the same time it is realized that activities may occasionally be of legitimate value to other medical staff members and allied health personnel. The policies regarding attendance of non-physician groups at LAMED activities are as follows: