the hero deserved
not the hero that we need
palooza haiku

coming in one week
cmepalooza spring
what could be better?

9 AM ET – Can You Define and Articulate the Value of Your Education?

value does not mean
all about the benjamins
build better stories

10 AM ET – Outcomes Standardization Project: One Year Later

it has been one year
since these guys started working
are we standard yet?

11 AM ET – The MECC Reborn: Our Present and Future

rising from the ash
of new york times articles
the mecc is reborn

Noon ET – The Multi-day Medical Education Program: The Rationale for Longer-Term Courses

consider this thought
maybe instead of smaller
it should be bigger

1 PM ET – Lighten the Load! Designing Efficient, Engaging Education Based on Cognitive Principles

both of these speakers
are much smarter than I am
cognition science!

2 PM ET – You Can Do It! Busting Myths About the Use of Audience Response Technology

just like ray parker
busting (myths) makes us feel good
don’t ghost this session

3 PM ET – Nobody Puts Outcomes in the Corner

stop dirty dancing
with needless outcomes levels
it’s time to align

4 PM ET – CME Overview for the CME Professional

oldhead or newbie
here’s an overview for all
(we’re all young at heart)

Sponsors

a couple haikus
for gold and silver sponsors
scott is making me

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when you think silver
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A quick reminder for those of you who like free money: Entries for CMEpalooza Pursuit, our annual Sponsor event, are due on Friday, April 12 at 11:59 p.m. ET. You can get all of the information you need to enter by reading last week’s announcement available here.

Here is what some of the early entrants have been saying about CMEpalooza Pursuit:

• “What a great way to learn about some of the companies who develop CME programs. I wasn’t familiar with a few of these companies, and it was a fun way to learn about them.”
• “A good excuse to stop doing real work for a few minutes. And American history? Wow.”
• “I got some good ideas for our future programs just by looking through what other providers are doing.”
• “You suck” (this was Derek’s entry, which was disqualified for many, many reasons)

Hey gang, just a quick note to let you all know that today is not the last day to register for CMEpalooza, because, well, we don’t have registration at CMEpalooza. You can just drop by whenever you want on Wednesday, April 17, click on the live video stream, and start watching. It’s wild.

Of course, if something truly awful happens that prevents you from watching CMEpalooza live – like if you have a burst appendix or perhaps accidentally eat a piece of white chocolate and have to go to the ER – you can always watch the archive of all the presentations later that day (or any other day). Again, no registration and no charge. The advantages of a virtual conference.

Scott and I briefly toyed with the idea of trying an actual in-person, live meeting CMEpalooza. Rather, I toyed with the idea. Scott thought it was a dumb idea from the very beginning, which is probably right. Anyway, I checked out a potential venue last week. Here’s my picture from inside the Wells Fargo Center, home of the Arena Football League’s Philadelphia Soul. Also, apparently a couple teams named the Flyers and 76ers play there. News to me.

Frankly, I’m not sure if this space is big enough to accommodate us. Is the Astrodome still around?

Speaking of the 76ers, Sixers legend Bobby Jones was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame this past Saturday. While Bobby Jones looked like a high school AP calculus teacher even in his prime playing days, he was surprisingly athletic and a nasty dunker. Whenever he passes on from this world to the next, I imagine his conversation with St. Peter at the Pearly Gates will go something like this:

St. Peter: “Name?”

Bobby Jones: “Bobby Jones.”

St. Peter: “Reason you should be let into heaven?”

Bobby Jones: “I dunked on Larry Bird.”

St. Peter: “Uh…didn’t you start a sports ministry for at-risk youth??”

Bobby Jones: “Yes, but…” [whips out cellphone and plays this video]

St. Peter [with a small smile]: “OK, you’re in. Next!”

Did I just write this entire blog post for the sole purpose of showing a video of Bobby Jones dunking on Larry Bird and knocking him on his butt?

Only St. Peter knows for sure…