It’s always nice when our moderators get into the spirit of our ultra-casual dress code, but no one has quite nailed it like Kurt Boyce, our recent guest in the CMEpalooza Spring “5 Minutes With…” preview series. Kurt, who currently serves as Director of CME & Compliance at Applied Clinical Education, will be part of a 2-person team that will present during the 1 p.m. ET session on the topic of Achieving Level 7 Outcomes: A MEC Perspective.

Kurt has a long history in CME, which he talks about in our “hard-hitting” interview.

Among other gems, you’ll find out:

• What CME was like in the late 1980s (yes, there was actually a precursor to PowerPoint that cost thousands of dollars every time you used it)
• How Kurt has gone from designing education to measure Level 1 outcomes to designing education to measure Level 7 outcomes during the span of his career
• How smart Derek seems when he isn’t talking (he doesn’t say a word the whole time but just smiles glumly — he must have been following the Phillies getting shut out once more in spring training on his iPhone)

Check out Kurt’s video below:

When you are stuck in the rut of meeting day-of-day deadlines, it’s easy to forget the wealth of help that is available in the CME community to not only make your professional life easier but often to make it better. I caught myself looking through the CMEpalooza Sponsor listings the other day and marveling at the diverse range of services they provide, so in a personal effort to make the lives of our dedicated audience easier, here is a general classification and description of our current sponsors (with more coming soon!):

Pharmaceutical Companies

• Genentech

Medical Education Companies

• CMEMatters
• CMEology
• CME Outfitters
• Forefront Collaborative
• Global Academy for Medical Education, LLC
• Imedex
• Impact Education
• PlatformQ

Service/Technical Providers   

• ArcheMedX
• Decision Simulation
• Educational Measures
• HighMarksCE
• Intelligent Medical Decisions, Inc.
• infograph-ed

You can find out more information about all of these companies (some even have videos — how high tech!) on our Sponsor page.

This week we truly begin our “5 Minutes With…” video series with the person who I personally thought wrote the most entertaining abstract of all those submitted — Jason Olivieri. Jason is the Manager of Outcome Services at Imedex and will be presenting at 11 AM ET on Secrets of CME Outcome Assessment…Revealed. We had an action-packed five minutes with Jason, which included:

• A story of criminal masterminds collecting chemical waste
• My lovely co-producer and moderator Scott going AWOL for a few minutes during the middle of the video
• Jason’s bird voicing his opinion in the background
• The word “sexier” being used to describe Level 7 outcomes

Check out Jason’s video below: