We are now officially less than one month away from CMEpalooza Fall – woohoo! In honor of the occasion, I made a little one minute tribute entitled, “Spend the Day With CMEpalooza” (side note: you don’t technically have to spend the whole day with us since each session will be archived and you can come back and watch them whenever you want – but let’s not get caught up in the details, OK? OK.)

I’m pretty sure this is the only CME-related video you will watch today set to Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day”, but I suppose I could be wrong. Remember to mark your calendars for October 15 and plan to spend at least part of your day with CMEpalooza Fall!

 

Just a quick update to let you all know that Medical Meeting posted a really nice feature article on CMEpalooza this week (The DIY Movement’s Answer to CME Provider Meetings). I thought it was a nice summary of the origin and motivation behind CMEpalooza and that some of you might be interested in reading it. Many thanks to Sue Pelletier for the write up!

Next up in our series of (short) interviews with each of the CMEpalooza Fall moderators is Allison Gardner, Vice President of Educational Strategy and Content at Med-IQ and moderator of the Have We Forgotten About the Content in Continuing Medical Education? session. Here are a few snippets from the interview:

On the future of CME:

I’m optimistic about the future of CME because there have been a lot of changes in healthcare and it’s a very dynamic landscape and I think that forces us out of our comfort zone to come up with really interesting platforms for our education.

On what she believes to be an important change in CME over the past 5 years:

I think there is a growing focus on putting the patient and patient perspective into education and making sure we’re including them in the fold of the team that’s making clinical decisions.

On why people should tune in to the Have We Forgotten About the Content in Continuing Medical Education? session:

What I hope will happen in this session is that we’ll get a great conversation going about how all the different panelists – in their different roles developing CME – how they tell a story, how they can make information interesting, and how they help make it stick.

You can watch the full interview below.