Hey folks, this is Sue Yom from the University of California San Francisco. This year's clinical Co-chair for the ASTRO 2024 Refresher Course. I'm gonna tell you some of the reasons why I think this is a great experience and why after all these years in the business, I still look forward to the Refresher Course. First of all, it is great that we have all these on-site meetings again. I'm not kidding. I love seeing people again. I was so happy and relieved to be able to do that, but it's also a lot. You gotta make an airplane reservation, you gotta do your hotel, you gotta make sure your expense tracking is all set up. This is just extra to think about. ASTRO Refresher-- you just sign up April 17th to 19th-- it'll be all right there for you live on screen, but you don't have to go anywhere, you don't have to make any arrangements, it's very straightforward and you can focus on you. You can focus on learning. It's great to be on-site, but people will be texting you, Where do you wanna go lunch? You wanna meet up? People will be walking by, you got all this networking. It's just a lot of extra. Let's face it, how educational is some of that? But ASTRO Refresher--just for you-- just to help you learn and catch up on everything that's new this year. That's what I like. I had a lot of FOMO in college. I had a really hard time getting through college because it was like, ok, number one, I didn't want to always have to take a shower and dress up and then go somewhere. I would really like to have been able in my day to put on a background and imagine I was in, say, Onomea Bay in my comfortable clothes, and furthermore, I always had this feeling of FOMO; too much to do. How should I use my time? ASTRO Refresher isn't like that. It's just one thing and frankly, if you did have to miss it, if you had to step out, if you had to go do something, check a film, who knows what, drive your daughter to their appointment, you can just come back and you can watch the rest onDemand. So there's some really convenient stuff there and you got to admit, fits really well into the lifestyle. Now let's get into the nitty gritty. If you sign up, you get 12 site- specific reviews, which are always great and those are live or onDemand. You get three eContouring modules on sites we haven't done recently like head and neck, CNS and sarcoma, that's a tricky one, and you get onDemand access. Anytime later you can go back and watch it at your leisure. Not to mention--bonus--pediatrics, if you need that, will be covered in a special additional onDemand offering and altogether you get 22 CME credits. As someone who's run a lot of courses, I'll tell you that is a passel of credits and also who can pay any attention when you're at the meeting? I mean, you want people around, you want to feel like you're part of the gang, but you don't necessarily want to be distracted and chattering when you've paid hundreds of dollars to sit there on this course. So, I have a special offer for you--a free giveaway. If you register now--between now and April 17th before the course and you contact me, I will personally send you these two limited edition paper bobble heads. They look great on the wall and you can put them up and you can just feel like you're part of the crowd, you know, for those of you who like that experience and you want to feel the little community, Paul and I are going to be right there with you. But this is a limited time offer and time is running out. So register now before the date of April 17th when ASTRO Refresher goes live so that you've got your slot. Hope to see you there.
