Below is a guest post from the esteemed moderator of our The Brief, Wondrous Life of a Grant Request session, Riaz Baxamusa. 

We are going to open this season’s CMEpalooza with a bang, but first, you have a homework assignment. If you haven’t downloaded your electronic copy of The Insider’s Guide to Medical Education Grants please do so and give it a quick review before our 10 AM session. Our goal is to answer as many of your questions as we can and hopefully provide you with a few tips and tricks along the way. The lineup of insiders we have on this panel will flip the presentation on its head to make sure you get your questions about the grant submission and review process answered first. Please use the form below to submit your questions:

And if we have extra time we may cover topics such as:

• What happens after you hit submit?
• What are some of the best practice processes from large and small pharma companies that you may be able to incorporate into your company’s process?
• What is the life cycle of a grant?

So don’t be shy — let us know questions you have about grant requests. We’ll do our best to answer as many of them as we can!

The people clamored for it (no one clamored for it).

Scott loves it (he hates it).

I’m tired of it (I love it).

It’s CMEpalooza Haiku!

 

coming up next week

it’s CMEpalooza

october nineteen

 

please light a candle

for google hangouts on-air

killed by youtube live

 

how much must I pay

for such wonderful programs

silly guy they’re free

 

the brief wondrous life

of oscar wao? no, a grant

poor junot diaz

 

casual convos

folks talkin’ ‘bout CME

no jacket requir’d

 

therefore never send

to know for whom the TELMS tolls

TELMS it tolls for thee

 

two four six and eight

c’mon all let’s innovate

time for something new

 

confirmed or busted

CME mythbusters know

tune in to find out

 

ce conundrums

common and not-so-common

presented at 3:00

 

twenty slides twenty

seconds auto-advancing

that’s puntua lortu

Like most men, there are few things I find more enjoyable than a long, emotional conversation about life issues that end with tear-stained hugs.

Whenever I board a plane for a long trip, I’m always excited by the possibility of sitting next to someone really interesting whose life story I can delve into hour after hour while we ride the skies.

I’d write more, but I’m busy talking out my office window to the woman whose dog just peed on my front stoop. We’re 2 hours into our conversation (did you know that city dogs live longer than country dogs? I didn’t, but I find it totally riveting).

Ah, screw it. No witty introduction to today’s blog post.

One of the new, unique session designs we’re including within the CMEpalooza Fall agenda on Wednesday, Oct. 19 is called “Casual Conversations in CME.” This one will begin at 11 a.m. ET. Clearly, it’s not a session I would likely have personally volunteered to be a participant in, but I’m nonetheless looking forward to being an educational eavesdropper and hearing what our panelists have to say.

For this session, we’ve paired 3 panels (2 people each) and really given them carte blanche to talk about whatever they want to for 15 minutes each. Presumably, it will have something to do with something related to CME, but beyond that, I really don’t know what to expect (OK, I have a little bit of any idea – I mean, we do talk to these people before our live broadcast date).

What I think will be interesting about this session is that we’ve purposefully created interesting pairings of people. For instance, Jann Balmer and Ron Murray worked together for many years and will (hopefully) fall easily into a casual banter. Our other two panels — Hilary Schmidt and Rob Bartel along with Mike LoPresti and Ro Brual — only met due to our matchmaking ability (my yenta grandmother would be so proud!) and have had to both “get to know each other” as well as figure out what they want to talk about during this session.

Frankly, I have never seen anything quite like this session, and I’ll be very interested to see how it goes. You should be too. So tune in.

Just don’t try to talk to me if we ever sit next to each other on a plane.