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Planning Travel to State Rheumatology Conferences

Joseph Cantrell, JD  |  

Much more than just CME, state society meetings offer a way to expand your professional network, explore what other states are working on and even build in some leisure time or family activities.

Glucocorticoids in RA

David S. Pisetsky, MD, PhD  |  

The historical & continuing roles of glucocorticoids in the treatment of RA are discussed. 

RheumMadness 2023: The Results Are In

David L. Leverenz, MD, MEd  |  

RheumMadness is an online tournament in which a bracket of teams, representing key learning concepts in rheumatology, compete against each other in a series of head-to-head matchups, much like basketball teams in the NCAA’s March Madness. The 2023 tournament theme was The All Star Season. Each team represented one all star article competing to be…

Ignite the Spark of Joy & Discovery

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A Roshi (i.e., master) apparently said that in Zen, “there is nothing to believe and everything to discover.” Interestingly enough, I have never been able to confirm who actually said that, which makes this saying about belief and discovery particularly apt. Regardless, I think about those words at least twice a day when I am…

The ACR & ARP Relaunch the Advanced Rheumatology Course

Benjamin J. Smith, DMSc, PA-C, DFAAPA, Marcy Bolster, MD, Sonam Kiwalkar, MD, Julie Lahti, Anneke Smith & Sharon Ross  |  

The ACR and the ARP are preparing to relaunch the Advanced Rheumatology Course (ARC) with a fresh look and an enhanced format to facilitate the learner experience. Since its debut, the ARC, formerly the Nurse Practitioner and Physician Assistant Postgraduate Rheumatology Training Program, has been a valuable resource for hundreds of nurse practitioners (NPs), physician…

Benefits & Challenges of, & Potential Solutions for, Hybrid Conferences

Jamie E. Collins, PhD, Richard Conway, MB, BCH, BAO, PhD, Mrinalini Dey, MB, BChir, MA, MRCP, Laura B. Lewandowski, MD, MS, Jean W. Liew, MD, MS, Kaleb Michaud, PhD, Noelle A. Rolle, MBBS, Didem Saygin, MD, Grant S. Schulert, MD, PhD, Julia F. Simard, ScD, Beth I. Wallace, MD, MSc, & Kristen J. Young, DO, MEd  |  

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientific and medical conferences began to be canceled or postponed. Later, once the pandemic endured beyond the scope of weeks to months, many organizations shifted conferences to a virtual format. Now, as the federal government has ended the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, effective mitigation measures, including vaccination, rapid testing, masking…