winter ski conference?

[Intubate]

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Hi guys.
My wife wants to go snowboarding out west this winter, and I need to do some CME and have some vacation weeks to kill. Anyone know of a conference happening that would accomplish both of these goals? Hopefully more snowboarding, less CME.

Thanks

 

[rsgillmd]

Hi guys.
My wife wants to go snowboarding out west this winter, and I need to do some CME and have some vacation weeks to kill. Anyone know of a conference happening that would accomplish both of these goals? Hopefully more snowboarding, less CME.

Thanks

There is one in Colorado, called CRASH (Colorado Review of Anesthesiology and Ski Holiday). It was in February this year. I heard it will be in March in 2009. My chairman is a fan of snowboarding. He, and some other colleagues that went, all said they enjoyed it. Basically it was lecture in the morning, slopes in the afternoon, then lecture again in the evening.

http://www.cucrash.com/

I realize Colorado is not exactly west. But that's the best I can think of at this time.

 

[usnavdoc]

I hear the Crash conference is good. Emory puts on one everyyear at steamboat as well. They haven't put out the 2009 brochure yet, but here is the 2008 brochure.

http://www.med.emory.edu/CME/course/08/08-AN0210.htm

 

[Kubed]

If you can stand hanging out with us DOs, Nevada does a conference every January at the base of heavenly in south lake tahoe. Classes are scheduled around lift hours 😀

 

[dbiddy808]

Check out this link below. Also...Northwest Anesthesia Seminars has conferences that are not always listed on the ASA website. I went to a Duke conference at Breckenridge last year and it was great.

http://events.asahq.org/cgi-bin/calendar/finder.cgi

 

[bubalus]

I've heard CRASH is good. I've known a couple people who have gone to NWAS seminars and had a good time.

Utah does one in Park City in Feb. This year is the 54th annual meeting. It's held at The Canyons, so most people would ski/board there, but Park City is just down the road, as is Deer Valley (no snowboards). You could drive 45 min or so and hit Snowbird, Solitude, Brighton (lots of snowboarders), Alta (no snowboards). Might be nice to stick around an extra week and hit all the resorts.

http://medicine.utah.edu/anesthesiology/postgrad/index.html

 

[MTGas2B]

I hit up the Utah Conference in 2007. It was pretty nice, talks in the AM, and afternoon, free from 10am to 4 pm. I was able to ski at park city and canyons during the day and still hit up all the talks.

They offered up decent talks and workshop on ultrasound guided regional. The big thing is the TEE talks. The last two days or so was all echo, and it divided into beginner and advanced. The chair, Cahalan, is a big echo guy.