CME Subscriptions Now Available! [Sale]
I’m excited to announce the launch of a CME subscription tier for this newsletter!
For several years I’ve tried to find a good way to offer CME, but there have been a lot of obstacles along the way.
As far as I can tell, this is one of the first CME products in which the content is distributed solely via email newsletter (as opposed to a conference, lecture, or online blog-style course).
Here’s how the logistics will work for those who choose to become CME-tier subscribers:
Read the cases every Monday as usual.
At the end of each month, CME-tier subscribers will get a course evaluation via email.
Simply fill out the course evaluation, and a CME certificate will be automatically sent to you via email.
I’ve really tried to make this process as simple and easy as possible:
You don’t have to take a quiz about the cases in order to get your CME credit, you just have to fill out a course evaluation. When I tested this process, it took about 60 seconds. I don’t want to supervise you like a kindergarten teacher and force you to do quizzes, I know that physicians are able to read and learn from these cases like professional adults.
If you are busy and can’t read the emails until later, it’s totally fine. You’ll have up to one year to go back, read them, and collect your CME credit. My email inbox gets cluttered liked everyone else, so feel free to save the cases into a folder and come back to them later.
Now for the uncomfortable part: it’s really expensive to offer CME.
I’ve spent a lot of money to do this without any guarantee that I’ll make it back.
The CME-tier subscription is going to be $465/year.
However, for one week I’m going to run a launch discount for $395/year.
This gets you an entire year of cases and the associated 12 CME credits.
I know that not everyone will want to subscribe to the CME tier, and that’s fine.
For the entire life of this newsletter I’ve given away half of my cases for free, because I know there are lots of students and residents who can’t pay. I have no plans to change this because I think the content is valuable and I know I would have loved reading these cases when I was at that stage.
For those who are already paid subscribers, you can upgrade your subscription to CME-tier for a prorated amount (this Substack support article explains how they calculate the prorated amount at the bottom).
If you’re already a paid subscriber but don’t want to upgrade to the CME tier, nothing will change. You’ll still get to read all the cases, but you won’t get any CME credit.
Here are the details that I’m obligated to provide, explaining the learning objectives and absence of any conflict of interest (I don’t take any pharma money).
On Monday I’ll send the first case that will qualify for CME credit.
It concerns a topic that I’ve purposefully avoided until now: COVID.
Have you noticed I’ve published zero COVID cases so far? I started writing this newsletter in the depths of the pandemic and 5 years later it’s time to finally look at one of the more wild COVID lawsuits I’ve found.
It’s about a patient with viral symptoms and ischemic EKG changes, early in the pandemic when we had to send tests to a state lab and it took days to get a result.
Here’s a sneak preview from her discharge summary:
The case will go out on Monday, and CME-tier subscribers will be able to claim their CME credit for all February cases at the end of February.