MEETING RATINGS & FEEDBACK

THE NATIONAL: APMA ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING

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EXHIBITOR RATINGS

Total Exhibitor Reviews for This Meeting: 13

OVERALL RATING – 3 OF 5 STARS
MEETING ORGANIZATION – 3.5 OF 5 STARS
ATTENDANCE – 2.5 OF 5 STARS
HALL TRAFFIC- 2 OF 5 STARS
HALL SCHEDULE – 3 OF 5 STARS
SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES – 3.5 OF 5 STARS
EXHIBIT COST – 3 OF 5 STARS
ADDITIONAL COST – 3 OF 5 STARS

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EXHIBITOR COMMENTS

Overall Satisfaction Comments

Not bad. We attend every year and will attend in 2022.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Attendance and traffic to the exhibit hall was poor at best. The decision to reduce show hours limited opportunities to speak with attendees and negatively impacted the results typically driven at this meeting. I am questioning the need to further support this meeting in the future.

-2018 EXHIBITOR

For a national meeting it was disappointing.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

For the APMA to be the national meeting, it was disappointing. The APMA needs to figure out how to increase attendance and get the docs more engaged in the exhibit hall.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

PHYSICIAN/ATTENDEE RATINGS

Total Physician/Attendee Reviews for This Meeting: 8

OVERALL RATING – 4 OF 5 STARS
MEETING ORGANIZATION – 4 OF 5 STARS
SCIENTIFIC CONTENT – 4 OF 5 STARS
CREDIT HOURS – 4.5 OF 5 STARS
REGISTRATION COST – 4 OF 5 STARS
ADDITIONAL COST – 3.5 OF 5 STARS
ACCOMMODATIONS – 4 OF 5 STARS
EXHIBIT HALL – 3.5 OF 5 STARS

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PHYSICIAN/ATTENDEE COMMENTS

Overall Satisfaction Comments

I enjoyed the meeting

-2021 ATTENDEE

Ok for Covid times, but not after. Not attending next year, but not for spite.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Nice to get back to in person conferences.

-2021 ATTENDEE

REVIEW SPECIFIC CATEGORY COMMENTS

EXHIBITOR REVIEW CATEGORIES

SEE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BELOW.

It was fine. Still think the evening session is a waste of time.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Over all, I was satisfied. Well run and organized.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Very slow foot traffic and much less vendors. Hours very short and spread over 3 days. Huge expense

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Great to be back in person. Vendor hall hours were too short leading to a lot of downtime.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Communication from APMA staff was good

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Not bad but scheduling sessions during lunch killed any traffic in the exhibit hall

-2019 EXHIBITOR

About what we expected. Hoped more would attend the in-person portion but do understand why the numbers were low.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

I was under the impression that this would be the first primarily live trade event of 2021 but was informed the day of set up that 350 attendees were still virtual. The virtual options for exhibitors were less than optimal so effectively we were only able to interact with 60% of the audience we were expecting.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

I would like to have seen more Doctors visiting the exhibit hall.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

about 1/3 usual was expecting more live.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Attendance was as expected for first big meeting back. Low but quality. Good to be back in a vendor hall.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Very low attendance for a National meeting

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Podiatry faces some tough decisions on their meetings. As more clinicians elect to stay home and get credits online, state and national organizations will be hard pressed to come up with new ideas to incentivize the docs to attend a conference. And with more clinicians joining larger multi practices, they don’t have the flexibility to attend meetings as they once did.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Very slow hall traffic and lower numbers of attendees than what was reported.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

I would give it a C plus. Not bad but not great. The docs should have come in to the hall more. It took time, effort and money to attend, especially after not having live events for so long or often.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Considering it was low turn out of Doctors, its going to contribute to low traffic

-2021 EXHIBITOR

about 1/3 usual was expecting more live.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Traffic was great during happy hour. OK on Friday and slow on Saturday. Would have loved to have had more events in the hall to drag people in more frequently.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Friday was very, very slow. Certainly no need to go to 6pm.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Very slow hall traffic for the most part. Thursday was the best day. Saturday was dead!

-2019 EXHIBITOR

No problems but the evening session is a waste of time, jmo.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Appreciated the shorter show hours but would have liked to see more opportunities to interact with customers and prospects.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Only 11 hours of exhibiting spread over 3 days.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Friday hall hours were far too short.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Too many hours and no enough doctors. No reason to have exhibitors in their booth til 6pm.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Hours were fine.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

OK, but they shouldn’t schedule sessions during lunch.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

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Cost is reasonable. No complaints

-2021 EXHIBITOR

It’s a national show so you are going to overpay for a booth going in

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Reasonable

-2019 EXHIBITOR

The property was nice but far removed from everything else. They certainly had a captive audience.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Location was nice but far from Denver so we were almost forced to stay onsite. Hotel F&B are always more expensive than venturing out so the lack of proximity to other options, left us spending more on meals and entertainment.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

The hotel was spectacular but the availability of restaurants were limited.

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Again crazy expensive all in but we knew going in and we got boatloads of Marriot points

-2021 EXHIBITOR

Despite the comments from some attendees, I enjoyed SLC very much.

-2019 EXHIBITOR

Reasonable

-2019 EXHIBITOR

PHYSICIAN/ATTENDEE REVIEW CATEGORIES

SEE ADDITIONAL COMMENTS BELOW.

Far away from any other places of interest.

-2021 ATTENDEE

More signs and info to identify room locations. Keep place to scan badges in the same place during the entire meeting. It was too hard to find scanners outside of the vendor hall.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Not very many doctors present in live sessions each day. But the format, management and organizational components were good.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Meeting content were great

-2021 ATTENDEE

Have more practice management lectures. Have virtual training that staff can watch while doctors are away at conference

-2021 ATTENDEE

The presenters, topics and presentations were very good.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Wide range of topics, a few too many lectures of Charcot surgery, many thing duplicated. Loved the dermoscopy and biopsy lab.

-2021 ATTENDEE

They tried, but the meeting was esoteric, high level stuff that didn’t inform my practice much. I’m sure they get complaints from the other side as well.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Adequate hours were offered

-2021 ATTENDEE

There was 29.5 credits which was amazing for the cost. Wide range of topics

-2021 ATTENDEE

Just keeping my credits up for my license.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Very reasonable for the amount of credits, about $10 per credit.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Okay

-2021 ATTENDEE

Liked the no cost of being at home. Hated being at home and unable to do anything but hang out at the computer

-2021 ATTENDEE

The hotel cost was fine, the extra costs, resort fee and parking fees were a little outrageous

-2021 ATTENDEE

The location was too secluded. It should be in an area where other restaurants and activities can be accessed.

-2021 ATTENDEE

Very family friendly resort and good bar-restaurants

-2021 ATTENDEE

Lots of exhibitors and good variety as well

-2021 ATTENDEE

Nice variety of exhibitors

-2021 ATTENDEE

Online commercials only. Unable to grab the product and talk to people.

-2021 ATTENDEE

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