Symposium Benefits
Tax deductibility benefits are available depending on your particular situation. All programs are designed to comply with current IRS foreign convention rules and deductibility requirements under code section 274(h)(1) as directly related to the conduct of the attendee’s profession and meeting the reasonableness standard of the foreign seminar rules.
Professional meetings are designed to update and serve the interests and needs of the health professional and the public. Speakers are foreign professionals and distinguished members of PES. Seminars are given in a hospital, clinic, or conference room setting. The program is composed of brief, multiple topics which offer ample opportunity for sight-seeing experiences and other travel discoveries.
Continuing Education Recognition Awards:
Physicians: All programs are reviewed for Prescribed Credit for continuing education by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Dentists: PES is a CERP Recognized Provider by the American Dental Association and is authorized
to confer FAGD/MAGD credit with the Academy of General Dentistry and is a provider for California
Continuing Education credit. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental
professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not
approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours
by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider
or to ADA CERP at www.ada.org/goto/cerp.
Nurses: PES is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses to authorize continuing education contact hours of credit for nurses (provider No. CEP 5428).
