Like any mature, sophisticated man, nothing brings out the 4-year-old in me like some good potty humor. And so, while recording our moderator interview with Sandy Bihlmeyer, MEd, you can imagine my level of excitement when she started talking about a “hands-in” (her phrase, not mine) educational initiative focused on digital rectal exams.

The awful puns continued with things like “without further adieu-doo,” “butts in the seats,” and other gems. Feel free to come up with other inappropriate lines and add them to our comments if you want to entertain yourself.

Alas, the session Sandy is moderating, our kickoff to CMEpalooza Fall entitled “You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Can Get What You Need (From Faculty),” is unlikely to be quite so juvenile, so you’ll have to get your chuckles out now while you can.

only six weeks ‘til
cmepalooza fall
here’s the agenda

faculty problems?
sandy, denise, anne, and eve
are here to help you

have questions about
why your grant was rejected?
watch at 10 am

get prepared today
for learners of tomorrow
some born yesterday

join us at lunchtime
to learn about patient ed
no sandwich required

why yes Virginia
there really is more than moore’s
(levels of outcomes)

twenty slides, twenty
seconds each, auto-advance
that’s pecha kucha

are your grand rounds still
speaker, slide deck, and donut?
time to make a change

With only about 6 weeks to go until CMEpalooza Fall and summer vacation officially over, our internal promotion team will be furiously working over the course of the next few weeks to give you a flavor of what to expect on Wednesday, October 21. Expect to see airplanes with colorful banners trailing behind in a city near you.

But first, we have our initial moderator interview with Erik Brady, PhD, CHCP, of Clinical Care Options ready to whet your appetite. The theme for this year’s interviews is “The Best and Worst of…” where you’ll hear a little bit about our moderators’ best (and worst) experiences in CME. This may entail a project that went fantastically well (or flopped miserably), a presentation of their own that rocked (or rolled), or something else along those lines. We give people latitude to interpret the theme as they see fit.

During these interviews, we’ll also be knocking off a little bit of the rust from our production team, as you may note from some of the spotty camerawork. Hey, that’s what you get when these are recorded the day before a holiday weekend.

Derek’s Commodore 64 finally crapped out so he was unable to join us for this broadcast, but in happier news, if you are in the market for a circa-1987 floppy disk drive, he’ll sell you one for cheap!