Travel back with me, if you will, to a blog post Scott wrote back on February 3 to announce our upcoming CME Spotlight with PlatformQ Health. This was the opening paragraph:

While Derek was working on another of his infamous Top 10 lists (coming soon: Top 10 Wordle starters, Top 10 1930s radio shows, Top 10 foods that start with the letter Q), the rest of us at CMEpalooza HQ have been diligently planning actual education for our community. I know, what a concept.

Firstly, how dare he. I only do Top 5 lists.

Secondly, challenge accepted!

Top 5 Wordle Starting Words*

5. CLOSE
4. LEANT
3. CRANE
2. TRIED
1. SLICE

*I don’t use any of these. You didn’t think I would reveal my personal starting word, did you? Never!

Top 5 1930s Radio Shows

5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Dick Tracy
3. Perry Mason
2. National Barn Dance
1. The Jack Benny Show

Top 5 Foods That Start with the Letter Q

5. Quaker Oats
4. Quinoa
3. Quiche
2. Quarter pounders
1. Quesadillas

Thirdly, remember to mark your calendar for 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, February 23 for our CMEpalooza Spotlight with PlatformQ Health on the topic of “Equity in Clinical Trials Is Within Reach: Patient Voices in Medical Education Matter.” While I can’t promise any Top 5 lists (disappointing, I know), I can promise an engaging and educational session. Join us!

I’ll be honest with all of you – I had a fairly lengthy blog post written up, and I ended up deleting it because that’s not why you’re here. You’re here for the CMEpalooza Spring 2022 agenda. The last thing you want to do is read my yammering on and on about how this is the first time in a long time that we put out a call for abstracts, we are delighted with the abstracts we received, this is one of our best agendas ever, etc., etc.  Believe me, I’m with you. Let’s get to the good stuff.

So, here you go: Click here to go to the CMEpalooza Spring agenda

For what it’s worth, we are delighted with the abstracts we received, including those we couldn’t accept. The agenda is filled with new topics, old topics, and topics I can’t remember if they are old or new. Sessions run the gamut from discussing clinician anxiety to something called Dr. McGowan’s Magical Measurement Club. There might even be a Richard Dawson cameo along the way. (Note from Scott: Sadly, the man born as Colin Lionel Emm died 10 years ago. So a cameo is unlikely)

There will be many more details and updates to come in the following weeks. For now, take a look at the agenda and mark down the date of CMEpalooza Spring in your calendar (it’s Wednesday, April 6). We hope you will enjoy the show.

This is it, the final reminder to submit your CMEpalooza Abstract by the end of the day today in order to be considered for the spring agenda.

Click here to read all the details.

Click here to go directly to the Google Form.

That’s all I have. No clever lists of the top 5 concerts I attended in 2021 (5. Flaming Lips, 4. Chris Stapleton, 3. Lord Huron, 2. Avett Brothers, 1. Wilco/Sleater-Kinney) or long expositions on how your Wordle strategy reflects your general outlook on life (constantly changing your starter word = optimist; using one starter word = realist.) We don’t have time to discus the best Starburst flavor (it’s orange) or analyze whether Barry Bonds would have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame if he had simply smiled more (he would have. See: David Ortiz.)

We will have to save all those topics for another time. For today, we need to concentrate on one thing and one thing only: submitting your abstract for CMEpalooza Spring. Go do it now.

Maybe next time we can review my preferred coffee brewing vessel (Chemex) or the proper method for adding absinthe to a Sazerac cocktail (rinse the glass with it.) But that will have to wait for later. We are laser focused today. I’m not even going to mention the best TV show of 2022 (Station 11.) We are all far to busy submitting abstracts for that kind of a distraction.