Last October I wrote a blog post appealing to everyone to stick around for the last session of the CMEpalooza day and play a little CME Pop Trivia. Did everyone listen? No…but a good amount did. Enough for us to exceed the capacity of our Poll Everywhere account, which, er…sorry about that. Scott I We sort of forgot about that limitation until it was too late. Oops.

Anyhoo, we have upgraded our Poll Everywhere account (huge thank you to our ARS sponsor PeerAudience!) to accommodate everyone so I am again putting out a call for lots of people to stick around and play CME Pop Trivia II at 4:00 pm ET on March 24. Why? Because it’s fun!

I, Derek (not Scott), will once again serve as the all-knowing Quizmaster for four rounds of CME trivia…and a sprinkling of pop culture, too. Our four noble Questionmasters did such a great job last time that I asked them all to return and, remarkably, they all said yes! They will each develop four questions in their topic:

• From Questionmaster Brian McGowan: CME Legends & Lessons Learned
• From Questionmaster Scott Gorman: Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education
• From Questionmaster Tricia Wilson: Faculty Management
• From Questionmaster Jon Simmons: CM-Editoriana

After each set of 4 questions, there will be an extra question based on some piece of arcane pop culture trivia that will have no relation to anything else. Why? Because it’s fun!

There will be music. Why? Because it’s fun! (Here is the Spotify playlist from CME Pop Trivia)

There will be drinking. Why? Because it’s fun! (make sure you revisit last year’s post for my overly-long description of how to create an excellent Manhattan, the perfect complement for trivia playing.)

There will be prizes. Why? Because of the generous support from our prize sponsor Academic CME! (First place gets a $250 Amazon gift card. Second place gets $150. Third place gets $100.)

As noted, we will again be using Poll Everywhere, so if you want to be super-prepared, you can go ahead and download the Poll Everywhere app.

Hey.

You.

Yes, you, reading this CMEpalooza blog post.

I want to tell you something.

It’s something very important, that we all need to hear.

Good job.

That’s it.

Just…good job.

It’s been a weird year.

It’s been a hard year.

Harder for some than for others.

But hard for us all.

There are days when work is hard.

And communicating is hard.

And parenting is hard.

And living alone is hard.

And getting out of bed is hard.

And doing anything is hard.

And that’s ok.

We all feel like that sometimes.

But here you are.

Reading this.

And that alone is something.

You made it this far.

And that’s great.

Good job.