What Do I Do for a Living?

I often have a difficult time describing just what I do for a living to my friends and family. It should be simple, but it just never is. I always start out by saying that I work in continuing medical education; and, like it or not, that is what I do. But then I try to describe it more fully, with the intricacies of academic providers and private providers, the debate around fee-based activities and commercially supported activities, the benefit of “one and done” activities as opposed to