I’ll be honest with all of you – I had a fairly lengthy blog post written up, and I ended up deleting it because that’s not why you’re here. You’re here for the CMEpalooza Spring 2022 agenda. The last thing you want to do is read my yammering on and on about how this is the first time in a long time that we put out a call for abstracts, we are delighted with the abstracts we received, this is one of our best agendas ever, etc., etc.  Believe me, I’m with you. Let’s get to the good stuff.

So, here you go: Click here to go to the CMEpalooza Spring agenda

For what it’s worth, we are delighted with the abstracts we received, including those we couldn’t accept. The agenda is filled with new topics, old topics, and topics I can’t remember if they are old or new. Sessions run the gamut from discussing clinician anxiety to something called Dr. McGowan’s Magical Measurement Club. There might even be a Richard Dawson cameo along the way. (Note from Scott: Sadly, the man born as Colin Lionel Emm died 10 years ago. So a cameo is unlikely)

There will be many more details and updates to come in the following weeks. For now, take a look at the agenda and mark down the date of CMEpalooza Spring in your calendar (it’s Wednesday, April 6). We hope you will enjoy the show.

While Derek was working on another of his infamous Top 10 lists (coming soon: Top 10 Wordle starters, Top 10 1930s radio shows, Top 10 foods that start with the letter Q), the rest of us at CMEpalooza HQ have been diligently planning actual education for our community. I know, what a concept.

We should have at least an initial draft of our CMEpalooza Spring agenda ready in the next few days — and thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract for consideration — but in the meantime, we have a special announcement.

At 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, February 23, we will be hosting our first of (hopefully) several CMEpalooza Spotlights in 2022. This one is being sponsored by the fine folks at PlatformQ Health and will focus on the topic of “Equity in Clinical Trials Is Within Reach: Patient Voices in Medical Education Matter.”

Separately, both diversity and the patient voice are hot topics in CME, so it kinda only makes sense to mush them together into an educational session (anyone else have the “Who put their chocolate in my peanut butter commercial?” playing in their head right now? No? Hmm, moving on…).

In this 30-minute session, we’ll mix together peanut butter and chocolate… er, I mean, diversity and the patient voice… and explore how providers can not just include patients in their education, but the right patients from the right backgrounds. We’ll not only get the perspective of the provider, but also a representative from a patient advocacy group, a patient who has participated in CME programming, and other folks.

As with all CMEpalooza sessions, this is free for anyone to attend. You’ll just need to go to our LIVE page at 11 a.m. ET on Wednesday, February 23 to watch. We’ll see you there.

 

This is it, the final reminder to submit your CMEpalooza Abstract by the end of the day today in order to be considered for the spring agenda.

Click here to read all the details.

Click here to go directly to the Google Form.

That’s all I have. No clever lists of the top 5 concerts I attended in 2021 (5. Flaming Lips, 4. Chris Stapleton, 3. Lord Huron, 2. Avett Brothers, 1. Wilco/Sleater-Kinney) or long expositions on how your Wordle strategy reflects your general outlook on life (constantly changing your starter word = optimist; using one starter word = realist.) We don’t have time to discus the best Starburst flavor (it’s orange) or analyze whether Barry Bonds would have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame if he had simply smiled more (he would have. See: David Ortiz.)

We will have to save all those topics for another time. For today, we need to concentrate on one thing and one thing only: submitting your abstract for CMEpalooza Spring. Go do it now.

Maybe next time we can review my preferred coffee brewing vessel (Chemex) or the proper method for adding absinthe to a Sazerac cocktail (rinse the glass with it.) But that will have to wait for later. We are laser focused today. I’m not even going to mention the best TV show of 2022 (Station 11.) We are all far to busy submitting abstracts for that kind of a distraction.