4th AUC registration problems...still going on

Somehow the problems with registration just don't seem to end. The instructions are explicit and written down in detail, both on the site as well as in the mailer. Yet, people are sending drafts, cheques and cash or calling up to provisionally register without bothering to check on the website what the current status is. When we finally tell them that of the 8 sessions, 5 are 3D USG based, its only then that they finally back out. On top of that, two prospective delegates just sent in their registrations electronically without selecting a single program. What are we supposed to do with that? At last count, more than 40 radiologists have sent in registrations since we started three weeks ago, without bothering to follow up with payments - its just so much extra effort to keep track of all these potential registrants.

Wipro GE will probably wrap up the remaining five registrations this evening, so that we can finally close registrations for this conference and concentrate on getting patients, volunteers, etc for the workshops and make this a memorable event.

We are also very sure that we will repeat this program in December, with a few changes to make the selection of sessions better. This will probably be in the middle of December and as we did this time, online registrations will start at least two weeks before the mailers go out. As far as we at REF are concerned, anything online will always get first preference.