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!

I wrote a little poem for everyone.

Roses are red
Some phlox are ash
Send me your steps
And you can win cash*

(*Technically you can’t win cash, since we’re giving away Amazon gift cards, but I had a hard time finding a flower color that rhymes with “Amazon gift card.” )

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 CMEpalooza Multiplicity contest:

• Deborah Mitchell — CME Specialist at Northwestern Medicine
• Georgeanne Ledgerwood — Medical Librarian/CME Coordinator at WellSpan Health
• Jennifer Binon — Continuing Education Analyst at Advocate Health
• Christina Casanova Lider – Senior Director, Educational Outcomes and Supporter Relations, PVI
• LeeAndra Buccalo — Grants Manager, Medlive

Have a great Friday, everyone! Get stepping!

some loudly sing songs
to provide motivation
we write you haikus

back on the street this
October twenty-second
it’s Palooza Fall

it’s no Rocky Run
but STEPtacular Challenge
will get you moving

9 AM ET — Changing Minds, Changing Habits: Education that Goes Beyond the Facts

ch-ch-ch-changes
time may change minds (and habits)
but we can’t trace time

10 AM ET — Grant Anatomy 101: Dissecting A Grant Proposal

unlike Grey’s there’s no
McDreamy or McSteamy
just a LoPresti

11 AM ET — One Step Over the Line? What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and What Falls Into the Grey Area of Accredited CE

check out this session
for the nitty gritty of
accreditation

Noon — Social Listening Success Story: Amplifying Engagement and Uncovering Insights

some success stories
show social listening sows
stronger strategy

1 PM ET — Taking a Clinical Trials Approach to Outcomes Design

don’t touch that dial
outcomes designed by trial
will make you smile

2 PM ET — Time Well Spent: Optimizing Educational Events with Circadian Rhythm Science

the circadian
rhythm is gonna get you
unless you plan well

3 PM ET — The CE Bill of Rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Fair Balance

let’s all hope that no
constitutional scholars
read this mixed title

4 PM ET — Got Questions? Research Has Answers

research vampires
suck up research, but never
generate research

Sponsors

it’s a proven fact
that palooza sponsors have
a higher IQ

Gold

can’t escape Medscape
ubiquitous CME
they are everywhere

new name for this group
it’s Kaplan Medical Ed
KME for short

to no one’s surprise
MLG is back again
welcome back old friends

Silver

with space or no space
AcademicCME
is one of our faves

one key to haikus
creative name editing
like CE Concepts

Daiichi Sankyo
our favorite pharma sponsor
don’t tell the others

DKBmed has
an eye for innovation
and nose CME

GLC is known
for their ability to
combine brains and Braun

everybody knows
a group that’s called Healio
click the link to go

HMP has more
accreditations than we
have silver sponsors

best Pearl Jam lyric
is not about Jeremy
it’s “I’m still Medlive!”

you can get prime ed
from silver sponsor Pri-Med
give it a try, Ned.