don’t forget about
the STEPtacular Challenge
step this way for cash

some like limericks
but Whitney and I save all
our love for haiku

final reminder
CMEpalooza Spring
coming April 12

9 AM ET — Fostering Partnerships and Collaboration in a VR World

you know that we are
living in a VR world
does Madonna know?

10 AM ET — ChatGPT: Medical Education’s Savior or Newest Stand-Up Act?

Scott showed how poorly
ChatGPT writes haiku
med ed can’t be worse

11 AM ET — Conundrums in CME: You Be the Jury

will these conundrums
in CME be humdrum?
the jury is out

Noon — Advancing and Defining the Value of CPD with Data that are EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL AT ONCE

is that a raccoon
under your hat or are you
just a panelist?

1 PM ET — Meaningful and Sustainable Strategies to Address Disparities through CEhp: Are We There Yet?

a free tip for all:
question mark in the title
helps build up suspense

2 PM ET — What is Fair Balance Anyways?

no thumbing the scales
real talk about fair balance
Dike is watching

3 PM ET — We Don’t Talk About Bruno: Laying Bare Actions Harming Our Industry

fantastic session
but this friggin’ song is an
eternal earworm

4 PM ET — FADE Out HIV – Connecting Black Barbers, Their Clients and Community Clinicians

this session will show
sometimes the best ideas
are unexpected

Sponsors

some of you might think
sponsor haikus are easy
some of you are wrong

Gold

Academy for
Continued Healthcare Learning
two thirds a haiku

take CCO plus
PCE plus ProCE
equals CEA

I am watching you
Grzybowski, always watching
you and MLG

Silver

weather report for
Academic CME
cloudy and Hayes-y

DKBmed with
an “I” for innovation
improves nnovation

Haymarket Med Ed
and sister myCME
sibling rivalry?

what’s the dealio
with the group at Healio?
click link to find out

it’s PlatformQ Health
or shorten to PQH
mind your P’s and Q’s

woke up, fell out of
bed, wrote a haiku about
our friends RedMedEd

Back in the days before cellphones were less ubiquitous in our everyday lives and a smartwatch meant one of those sweet Casio calculator watches (side note: in elementary school, my friend Jerry got a Pac-Man watch for his birthday, one that you could actually play Pac-Man on, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever invented. How could you ever be bored again with a Pac-Man game right on your wrist??), I dropped an old school pedometer in my active 8-year-old’s pants pocket to see how many steps he would record in a normal school day. When he came home, I took it out to see how he did.

30,000. He took 30,000 steps between leaving for school in the morning and returning home around 3:30 pm. He might have broken the pedometer if I had left it in his pocket for the rest of the day.

Fortunately, child labor laws demand that 8-year-olds attend school rather than seek employment with any CME/CE companies, thus rendering them ineligible for the CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge and giving the rest of us a chance to win.

What is the CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge you ask? Allow me to elaborate.

• The challenge begins today (April 3) and will go until the end of the day on Sunday (April 9)
• The challenge is to record at least 10,000 steps a one day. For each day during the challenge period that you record 10,000 steps, please send in a screenshot of your step-counting device with the number of recorded steps, either by email (thecmeguy@gmail.com) or text (267-666-0CME [0263]). Please include the following information:
  • Screenshot of number of steps
  • Name
  • Email
  • Physical mailing address
  • T-shirt size (please remember to include this!)
• Each screenshot submitted is an entry into a random drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card (there are five gift cards; you cannot win more than one.) Winners will be drawn during the week of CMEpalooza Spring.
• The person who records and submits the most steps in one day wins a $250 Amazon gift card
• Everyone who enters will receive a CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge performance T-shirt from Talem Health. They’re pretty great, see?
  
• In lieu of an entrance fee, we are asking everyone to please consider joining CMEpalooza and Talem Health in making a donation to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). The recommended amount is $25, or whatever you are comfortable giving. Please follow this link to make a donation.

Thanks everyone and good luck!

CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge sponsored by:

My 16-year-old daughter sent me this Never Have I Ever: Retro Edition that’s been circulating around the various social networks recently.

I scored zero points. Scott scored 1 point — he wasn’t cool enough for a MySpace account.

(Quick side note: my daughter was completely baffled by my description of a floppy disk, especially when I started expounding on the differences between a 5.25″ floppy and a 3.5″ diskette.)

Not wanting to be left out of the fun, I put together my own Never Have I Ever list. I thought you might enjoy it, too.

Never Have I Ever: Video Conference Edition
Give yourself 1 point if on a video conference you have never…

• Started talking at the same time as another person and then both said “Go ahead” at the same time
• Started talking while muted
• Told someone they were talking while muted
• Yelled at a cat/dog/kid/spouse/partner/etc. while you thought you were muted, but you were not muted
• Had a cat/dog/kid/spouse/partner/etc. accidentally pop on screen
• Turned off your camera and folded laundry/emptied dishwasher/some other household chore
• Turned off your camera and reclined on a couch/bed/floor
• Turned off your camera and gone into the bathroom
• Been the only person with their camera on
• Been the only person with their camera off
• Been the only person in a meeting and then realized you got the time wrong
• Apologized for leaving early because you had another meeting, but you didn’t actually have another meeting
• Realized your shirt was inside out when you saw yourself on camera
• Given a presentation and asked “Can you see my slides?”
• Watched a presentation where the presenter kept their slides in “normal” mode rather than “slide show” mode
• Heard someone arrive late and interrupt the person speaking by loudly saying something like “HELLO? THIS IS [PERSON’S NAME]. SORRY I’M LATE. I HAD TROUBLE GETTING ON THE ZOOM/WEBEX/TEAMS/ETC.”

Once again, my score is zero. Hopefully, our collective score for CMEpalooza Spring will be much higher (except for cats and dogs on screen. The more cats and dogs on screen, the better. Kids, too, I suppose. Not spouses and partners, though. They’re annoying.)