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:

We are now just a shade under one month away from CMEpalooza Spring (yikes!), so we thought it would be a good time to introduce a new feature on the blog called “5 Minutes With…”. These will be quick interviews with an individual from each of the CMEpalooza Spring sessions and we’ll be asking them each two questions:

1. What is your CME story?
2. What can we expect from your CMEpalooza Spring session?

To kick things off, I forced Scott to do a “5 Minutes With…Scott Kober” session so we could practice. He was less than thrilled about it, but was a good sport and did a nice job. I, on the other hand, am battling a vicious cold which has left me stuffed up and a little loopy and prone to ramble (at least, that’s what I’m blaming it on…). Anyway, here’s the video. Enjoy!

Since the initial Palooza quiz I developed back in the fall using Sporcle was so widely praised and played, I figured I’d create a sequel. My logic is that sequels are always better than the original (see Godfather 3, Police Academy 5, etc.).

Here is the link to the quiz — http://www.sporcle.com/games/bakeet14/palooza2.

There is even a hook this time around — get 100% on the quiz on your first play and get a free registration to CMEpalooza Spring. Since the quiz is hard and no one got 100% on the fall quiz, I’m not that worried. But maybe I’ll alert our Accounting Department just in case.