As I have been telling you all along, the beautiful thing about running your own virtual conference is that you get to make up your own rules and do whatever you want. So, when you suddenly realize you have 21 presentations scheduled and almost 10 hours of presentation time, rather than panic and wonder how to squeeze everyone in to one day – you just extend the conference to the next day and…voilà! CMEpalooza is now a multi-day conference!

Click here for the schedule for March 20 and here for the schedule for March 21. We will be starting promptly at 10 AM ET both mornings and finishing up somewhere between 3:00-4:00 PM ET. I have built in two small breaks each day, mostly to act as a buffer in case we get off-schedule. Presenters have been warned that they’re allowed to do pretty much anything during their presentations EXCEPT run over time. I plan to be fairly ruthless about ending at scheduled times, which I can do since all it takes to end a session is clicking the OFF button (ahh…if only all of life was so easy).

And, yes, you can still order a CMEpalooza T-shirt if you’re interested. $15. Any size, any color. Just send me an email with your specifications and mailing address.

On a whim, I asked my brother-in-law, Greg – owner of the fantastic GreAT Signs in Bird-in-Hand, PA (yes, thats the name of a real town, shut up) – if he could whip up a CMEpalooza T-shirt using the Lollapalooza font. I thought it would be funny. This is what he came up with and I think it looks great! I posted a picture of it on Twitter and, to my surprise, a couple people asked about buying one. I hadn’t really considered that, but, yeah, sure, Greg says he can do that. So, if you want to purchase one, just send me an email at dwarnick@theCMEguy.com and we’ll make it happen. Cost is $15.

I’m currently working on the schedule for CMEpalooza and hope to have something by the end of the week. Since we now have 21 presentations scheduled and almost 10 hours of presentation time, it’s very likely that I will be spreading it out over two days (March 20-21). Stay tuned for updates!

***UPDATE: I’m told you can choose “any color you want” for the T-shirt and PayPal is an option for purchase. What a world we live in.

I’m thrilled to announce the latest addition to the CMEpalooza agenda, Patient-level Outcomes: Dos and Don’ts, Whys and Hows by Greg Salinas, PhD, Director of Research and Assessment Services, CE Outcomes, LLC.

This brings the total number of presentations to ten, which, I have to admit, blows me away. Several people have asked me if there is still room for more presentations. Absolutely! That’s the beauty of a virtual conference – I can add as many presentations as I want. There’s still plenty of room for more sessions on March 20 and if that fills up (which I doubt will happen), I can just extend it to the next day. So, yes, there’s still room for more presentations. Please feel free to submit your idea, but remember, the deadline to submit is one week away (Feb. 1). Might as well submit it now!