Let CMEpalooza Buy You Lunch

Tis’ the season of CMEpalooza giving…

First, we had last week’s special sponsor event, CMEpalooza Meets the Golden Bachelor, where we gave away $500 in Amazon gift cards. We’re in the midst of the CMEpalooza STEPtacular Challenge, sponsored by Talem Health, for all of you exercise types (it ends Friday so still time to “step on up” to the challenge). That’s another giveaway of $500 in Amazon gift cards.

And now I’m here today to announce another special giveaway event that is going to put some food in your belly and keep some change in your pocket (does anyone keep change anymore? Let’s just assume for now that the answer is yes). It’s the return of our CMEpalooza Feeds the People promotion, this year sponsored by epocrates®.

I am not a breakfast guy so I consider lunch personally to be the most important meal of the day. I love a good sandwich and will often search far and wide to add a new stop to my list. My friends and family are probably tired of hearing me talk about my favorite sandwich in the whole wide world (it’s called Give Me Liverty or Give Me Schmaltz! and is served at Kenny and Ziggy’s New York Delicatessen in Houston, TX). I desperately wish I could have it delivered to me, but it’s a few thousand miles door to door. Probably a good thing for my cholesterol level.

But that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy my favorite sandwich, or whatever other lunch delicacy seems particularly enticing, when CMEpalooza Fall rolls around next Wednesday, Oct. 18. And best of all, we’re picking up the tab!

Here are the very simple “rules” of CMEpalooza Feeds the People:

  1. Click on this link to sign up for your $20 Grubhub gift card
  2. It’s a very simple registration process. You don’t have to do any research or complete any onerous tasks. Just give us your email and tell us why you eat three bowls of Count Chocula for breakfast every morning.
  3. We’re giving away 75 of these gift cards – that’s a lot of free food! One per customer.
  4. For our “winners,” we’ll be sending a electronic Grubhub gift card over early in the morning of CMEpalooza Fall. Our hope is that this giveaway will allow you to order lunch delivery so that you can watch each and every session of CMEpalooza Fall without leaving your home or office. You never know what tidbit you might miss that will revolutionize your professional life, so better to nosh and listen through your noontime meal.
  5. Based on previous years, we expect this promotion to fill up quickly, so probably best not to hem and haw too much. Again, click here to sign up.

CMEpalooza Feeds the People sponsored by:

I’d Haiku Anything For Love (But I Won’t Haiku That): It’s CMEpalooza Haiku!

Steven Tyler loves
the STEPtacular Challenge
walk this way for cash

like Meat Loaf I would
haiku anything for love
but there is a line

in case you forgot
CMEpalooza Fall
October 18

9 AM ET — Organic Partnerships That Lead to Real World Connections: A CE Case Example

the healthiest things
are certified organic
even partnerships

10 AM ET — My Data Wants Out!

do you suffer from
bad data complexity?
this could be the cure

11 AM ET — Do We Really Need Another Session About AI?

this is like asking
if we need more Phillies wins
yes of course we do

Noon — Reaffirming Our Relevance: Myths and Misconceptions about CME and Implications for Our Industry

if you combine myth
and misconception, it is
a mythconception

1 PM ET – Think Again: Challenging the Path of Least Resistance

my grandpa would say
give your problem a good think
and then think again

2 PM ET – Case Conundrums in CME

this will be our fifth
case conundrum session, yet
spelling eludes me

3 PM ET – Improving Patient Care for the LGBTQ+ Community through Continuing Education: A Panel Discussion

this title is not
clever, witty, or cute, but
then neither are we

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

a sponsor haiku
guarantees business success
send complaints to Scott

Gold

ACHL a
learning academy not
police or awards

CEA uses
four company acronyms
a haiku nightmare

just like the show Friends
MLG gold sponsorship
will be there for you

Silver

to those who don’t know
Academic CME
Tim Hayes will amaze

question of the day
what name does the K stand for
in DKBmed?

if shopping for hay
Haymarket Med Ed might be
a disappointment

Mister Mister sang
oh Healio liaison
or something like that

you can trust this group
since their name literally
is Integrity

Kurt Russell stars in
my fav CME movie
Medscape from New York

PQH creates
digital education
Johnny 5 approves

RedMedEd: hard-core
yet lovable just like Scott
but more lovable

CMEpalooza Meets the Golden Bachelor: Winners of the Roses

We wrapped up another successful sponsor event on Friday, with thousands of entries into our CMEpalooza Meets the Golden Bachelor event pouring in from around the world. But alas, while everyone may have wanted the golden rose–or in this case, the $100 Amazon gift card–there could only be a few lucky winners.

Here they are:

  • Cindy Davidson, Editorial Manager, Scientific Affairs, Global Learning Collaborative
  • Javeshia Melton, BS, CME Program Specialist/ Medical Library, UF Health St. Johns
  • Dana Zook, Assistant Director, Program Development, ASHP
  • Courtney Samples, Continuing Medical Education Coordinator, CME Services, Legacy Health
  • Melissa Ketchum, CHCP, FACEHP, Director, Continuing Education, Annenberg Center for Health Sciences at Eisenhower

Thanks to everyone who entered, and congrats to our winners!