Today’s the last day to get those steps in! The CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge ends tonight.

Click here for all the details.

Good luck, and step to it!

It’s Friday. We’re all tired and want to go home, CMEpalooza Fall is next Wednesday, and this is my third blog post of the week. So, let’s do something fun before I nudge you about the CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge. With Halloween just a few days away, let’s do a quick monster ranking. Here are the Top 5 All-Time Most Despicable Monsters:

5. Larry Bird
4. Sidney Crosby
3. Michael Irvin
2. Tom Brady
1. Joe Carter

(You see, the joke here is that these aren’t actual monsters. They are the names of some of the most hated rival players in Philadelphia sports history, and I got to refer to them as “despicable monsters.” This would have been much funnier for you if you knew anything about Philly sports. I regret that, yet I still got to laugh out loud when I wrote it. At least I had a good time.)

Getting back to our main topic, this is a reminder to everyone that the CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge wraps up Sunday night (click here for more info). I know everyone loves to wait for the last day (and sometimes after the last day) to send me their step counts — and that’s fine — but you don’t have to wait for the last day. You can send them to me right now, if you want. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. You’re an adult, you can do what you want. Just make sure you send them to me.

And just to prove that people do participate in our contests and that we do have actual winners, here is the list of winners of our sponsor event, CMEpalooza Multiplicity, that wrapped up last week:

• Jen Atchison, Director of Continuing Medical Education and Recognized Accreditor Programs, Colorado Medical Society
• Vanessa Gray, DHA, MHA, CHCP, CMP, Director, Continuing Medical Education, Center for Educational Enhancement, Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences
• Jeannine Creazzo, , MLIS, MBA, AHIP-D, Director, Medical Library, Continuing Education, and Research, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset
• Jess Henry, CHCP, Continuing Medical Education Specialist, Northwell Health
• Brittane Strahan, MSN, RN, CCRP, Freelance Medical Writer

Have a great Friday, everyone! Get stepping!

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know the smooth sounds of Wang Chung?
a Gen X haiku

catch Palooza Fall
on October twenty-one
you won’t regret it

don’t forget your steps
STEPtacular Challenge ends
this coming Sunday

9 AM ET: From Courses to Conversations: Lessons from Building an AI Clinical Assistant for CME

very nice of them
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Allen Iverson

10 AM ET: Grant Anatomy 201: More Grant Proposal Dissection

101 last Fall
but there was so much to say
more time was needed

11 AM ET: Treating the Moment vs. Transforming the Journey: Why Only Funding Treatment-Focused Education Is Failing Patients

a good reminder
it’s not the destination
it is the journey

Noon ET: Ties That Teach: Connecting Clinician and Patient Education

blest be ties that bind
our patient education
to our clinicians

1 PM ET: CME Time Machine: Whatever Happened to Our Biggest Ideas?

some ideas work
some ideas fade out like
Power Rangers pogs

2 PM ET: The Late Show Top 10 List for CME Professionals: Things We Wish We’d Known Earlier

Letterman tribute
but no stupid human tricks
maybe for next time

3 PM ET: Miles from the City but Minutes from Learning: The Power of CME in Rural America

CE should always
be location agnostic
rural or urban

4 PM ET: Ask Us Anything: Live Rewind

a session in which
Scott and Derek seek answers
from smarter colleagues

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