Why Choose CME Getaways?

You have plenty of options when choosing Continuing Medical Education.

So why choose CME Getaways?

Because we believe a CME conference should deliver more than credits.

It should provide clinically relevant education, experienced faculty, transparent accreditation information, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a schedule that allows you to make good use of your time away from work.

And if you’re going to travel for CME, we think the destination should be somewhere worth experiencing.

That’s the idea behind CME Getaways:

Learn. Travel. Recharge.

1. Clinically Relevant Continuing Medical Education

The destination may get your attention.

The education should be the reason you register.

CME Getaways is designed around practical continuing medical education for physicians and other healthcare professionals, including clinicians involved in hospital medicine and inpatient care.

Hospital-based clinicians encounter an enormous range of conditions.

A single stretch of shifts may involve:

• Hypertension
• Heart failure
• Atrial fibrillation
• Anticoagulation
• Pneumonia
• Sepsis
• Acute kidney injury
• Diabetes
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Neurologic disease
• Electrolyte abnormalities
• Respiratory illness

That breadth makes staying current challenging.

Our approach to Hospitalist CME is to create dedicated educational time in which clinicians can step outside everyday workflow and focus on important clinical topics.

The goal isn’t simply to collect credits.

It’s to spend your CME time learning information relevant to the patients you care for.

2. Transparent CME Accreditation Information

Accreditation matters.

Before paying for registration, booking a flight, or reserving a hotel, clinicians should understand the CME credit associated with an educational activity.

That’s why we make CME accreditation and credit-designation information available to prospective attendees.

When evaluating any CME conference, clinicians should review:

• The accreditation statement
• The credit designation
• The number of credits available
• The intended audience
• Participation requirements
• How credit is claimed

Individual licensing, certification, credentialing, and professional requirements can vary.

If you’re attending specifically to satisfy a particular requirement, verify that the credit is appropriate for your individual circumstances.

We believe those details should be clear before you register.

3. Destinations You Actually Want to Visit

If you’re going to travel for continuing education, location matters.

Traditional medical conferences sometimes treat destination as an afterthought.

We don’t.

CME Getaways intentionally combines professional education with destinations that give attendees worthwhile options outside scheduled educational sessions.

Depending on the conference calendar, that can mean experiencing destinations such as:

Chicago

Restaurants, architecture, museums, entertainment, shopping, and the energy of one of America’s major cities.

Orlando

Resorts, restaurants, golf, entertainment, and numerous options for attendees considering a family trip.

San Diego

Beaches, waterfront areas, outdoor activities, restaurants, and Southern California scenery.

Hawaii

Beaches, hiking, water activities, natural scenery, and opportunities to extend a CME trip into a longer getaway.

The destination doesn’t replace the educational program.

It complements it.

That’s why your CME destination matters.

4. A Schedule Designed With the Destination in Mind

Being somewhere beautiful isn’t particularly useful if you’re inside a conference room from early morning until evening.

That’s why conference scheduling matters.

CME Getaways emphasizes a format designed to provide dedicated educational sessions while preserving meaningful personal time outside the scheduled program.

Depending on the destination, that might give you time to:

• Explore the city
• Spend time outdoors
• Visit local attractions
• Meet colleagues for dinner
• Relax
• Spend time with family
• Extend the trip before or after the conference

Attendees are still responsible for participating in the educational activity as required and claiming only the credit appropriate to their participation.

But outside scheduled sessions, your time is yours.

For many clinicians, that can make destination CME much more appealing than a traditional all-day conference format.

5. An Opportunity to Combine CME With Travel

Healthcare professionals have limited time.

Taking time away from clinical practice for continuing education is already a significant commitment.

Destination CME creates the possibility of making that time serve more than one purpose.

You can attend the educational sessions.

You can learn from faculty.

You can interact with colleagues.

And outside those sessions, you can experience the destination.

That’s part of why hospitalists are choosing destination CME conferences.

Professional development and an enjoyable trip do not have to be mutually exclusive.

6. Bring a Spouse, Partner, or Family

A CME conference doesn’t necessarily have to be a solo trip.

Depending on your circumstances, you may decide to bring a spouse, partner, friend, or family member.

While you participate in scheduled educational sessions, traveling companions can enjoy the destination.

Afterward, you can spend time together.

Some attendees may also decide to arrive early or stay after the conference and add personal vacation days.

That can be especially attractive for clinicians who find it difficult to schedule separate time for continuing education and travel.

The professional and personal portions of the trip should still be treated appropriately, particularly when employer reimbursement is involved.

But there is no reason a professional trip cannot also include meaningful personal time.

7. Connect With Other Healthcare Professionals

One of the major advantages of live CME is human interaction.

Online education can be extremely convenient.

But it doesn’t completely reproduce being in the same place as faculty and other healthcare professionals.

Live conferences can create opportunities to discuss:

• Clinical cases
• New evidence
• Hospitalist workload
• Patient safety
• Scheduling
• Career development
• Technology
• Leadership
• Quality improvement
• Challenges in everyday practice

Sometimes the most memorable insight from a conference doesn’t come from a slide.

It comes from a conversation.

Professional interaction and networking are among the benefits of attending a Hospitalist CME conference.

8. Step Outside the Everyday Clinical Environment

Healthcare professionals spend enormous amounts of time caring for other people.

Hospitalists in particular may work long shifts involving complex patients, admissions, discharges, documentation, difficult conversations, nights, weekends, and constant decision-making.

A CME conference does not fix the systemic causes of clinician burnout.

Nor should travel be presented as a treatment for occupational burnout.

But dedicated time away from normal clinical workflow can provide something useful:

space to focus on learning.

Instead of reviewing new evidence between pages and admissions, you have scheduled educational time.

Instead of discussing medicine only in the context of the next urgent task, you can talk with colleagues about broader clinical and professional issues.

That change in environment can make continuing education feel different from another item on a crowded to-do list.

9. Education That Reflects a Changing Profession

Hospital medicine is evolving.

Hospitalists increasingly contribute to:

• Clinical leadership
• Patient safety
• Quality improvement
• Care coordination
• Medical education
• Informatics
• Technology implementation
• Hospital operations
• Transitions of care

Emerging developments in artificial intelligence, new clinical trials, evolving guidelines, new medications, and changing models of care mean clinicians need to continue learning throughout their careers.

As we discuss in The Future of the Hospitalist, the modern hospitalist is increasingly more than an inpatient physician.

Continuing education should reflect that changing role.

10. Make Your CME Time Count

Clinicians have limited time away from work.

We believe CME should respect that.

Before choosing a conference, ask:

Is the education relevant to my practice?

Have I reviewed the accreditation information?

Is the faculty appropriate for the material?

Does the schedule work for me?

Is the destination somewhere I want to visit?

Can I participate fully in the educational program?

Does the total cost make sense?

Could I combine the trip with family or personal time if I want to?

The right CME experience should satisfy your professional needs first.

Then it should make the time you’ve committed to education feel worthwhile.

CME Getaways vs. Traditional CME

The difference isn’t that traditional CME is bad.

There are many excellent continuing medical education programs available in a variety of formats.

The difference is the experience we’re trying to create.

Traditional conferences may primarily answer:

Where can I earn CME credits?

CME Getaways asks an additional question:

If you’re already dedicating time to continuing education, how can we make the overall experience more valuable?

Our answer is to bring together:

Relevant education.

Transparent CME information.

Experienced faculty.

Live professional interaction.

Travel-friendly scheduling.

Destinations worth experiencing.

That combination is the CME Getaways model.

Who Is CME Getaways For?

CME Getaways may be a particularly good fit for healthcare professionals who:

• Prefer live educational experiences
• Value interaction with faculty and colleagues
• Want clinically relevant education
• Plan to travel for CME
• Enjoy combining professional travel with personal experiences
• Want time outside scheduled educational sessions
• May want to travel with family or companions
• Prefer destination-based conferences over traditional convention experiences

It may not be the right format for everyone.

If your only priority is completing education from home with no travel, online CME may be more convenient.

If you value live education and want to experience the destination, the CME Getaways model may be worth considering.

How to Choose Your CME Getaway

Start with your educational needs.

Then consider your travel preferences.

Some clinicians may want a major-city experience.

Others may prefer beaches and outdoor activities.

Some may want a destination that works particularly well for family travel.

Others may be looking for somewhere they can extend the trip.

Our guide to the best CME locations for physicians can help you compare different destination styles.

Once you’ve identified the right combination of education, dates, and destination, review the conference details carefully before booking travel.

Why Choose CME Getaways?

Because continuing medical education is important.

And your time is important too.

We believe clinicians should be able to pursue high-quality professional education without treating the rest of the trip as wasted time.

Learn during the educational sessions.

Connect with colleagues.

Experience the destination.

Bring someone with you if it works for your trip.

Stay a few extra days if your schedule allows.

Then return to practice with new information, new perspectives, and hopefully some good memories from the journey.

That’s what we mean by:

Learn. Travel. Recharge.

Find Your Next CME Getaway

Ready to choose your next continuing medical education experience?

Explore upcoming CME Getaways conferences and compare destinations, dates, and educational opportunities.

Choose the program that fits your clinical interests.

Choose the destination that fits your travel style.

Then make your next CME trip something worth looking forward to.