Normally I don't pay attention to ANY meetings. Not even the ones in my own specialty, let alone someone elses' on the other side of the International Date Line. But my reader Rebecca (thank you, Rebecca!) brought this one to my attention.
All these meetings are composed of various lectures and workshops you sign up for, and this one is no different. Here's a sampling of the exciting courses available:
If anything sounds more stimulating than a course on coagulation management, I don't know what it is. Oh wait, I do. A can of Diet Coke.
But if you scroll farther down the list, there IS a stimulating course:
Of course, caffeine isn't the only thing you can learn about at the meeting. If your anaesthesia machine (the one that goes "ping!") is all tuned up, why not work on...
After that course, a few cups of coffee, and a bathroom break you'll be ready to move on to...
Of course, there's always my way...
13 comments:
Fantastic! Now thats what I call a conference! Sign me up...or was this released on April Fools day..?!
Gah! Read that headline and thought for a second you were headed to my hometown! I guess yak herders don't need bicycle maintenance courses, huh..
REI offers Bike Maintenance in stores much closer to home. But there are those times when we all wish we were Australian.
$150 for a 90 minute coffee course??
Is there a course explaining why they put beets on hamburgers?
Sounds like a typical Aussie conference to me. Been to a few but not in the medical field but they do things like this. Glad to see they are sharing their convict heritage with everybody, as it is no longer necessary to have a prison record to enter the country.
If you have ever tried driving in Melbourne you will know why they need caffine and a well maintained bike to cope with all those trams and other drivers.
a kiwi with a slight chip
And do you get CME for those courses?
Ha! April Fools!
I'd rather the Great Ocean Road optional tour myself!
As for the Kiwi "with the slight chip", remember Melbourne is the World's most liveable city! ;p
How do we get this coffee gig for our next AAP meeting? Had my son only seen this he might have thought twice about not applying to medical school!
Y'know, these courses are for the most part the same ones listed for many of those in different medical professions (i.e. pharmacy schools, critical care, cardiology, etc.) so the big idea is to get the practice to pay for any old seminar ..., and the spouse gets a free second honeymoon outa da deal? Sometimes, they're 'get your CME on the sea', or 'CE on the Yukatan'. When are the yak herders going to get together for CE in a Yurt?
Haunted Mansion!
I’m disturbed the coffee/caffeine course which I doubt counts for any CEUs cost more than all other courses you listed.
Supply and demand I suppose....
Ah, those madcap anesthesiologists.
But if I could rack up $150/person for teaching a coffee class, I'm in the wrong end of the business.
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