103. CME Secrets: Unlock International Travel with Dr. Courtney Downes

Point Me To First Class

Devon Gimbel MD

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5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Are you a medical professional looking for ways to leverage your CME funds for travel? I'm joined by Dr. Courtney Downes, a board-certified emergency medicine physician, Points and Travel strategist, and founder of Prescription to Travel MD. She helps healthcare professionals optimize credit card points and travel hacks for accessible leisure, adventure, wellness retreats, and CME.

Discover how to tap into your CME allowance for unforgettable trips, from wellness retreats to international adventures. Dr. Courtney breaks down the options available and shares tips for navigating employer restrictions. She also reveals her favorite credit card perks and benefits that can elevate your travel experiences.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Point Me to First Class, the only show for employed professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners who are looking to optimize their higher than average expenses to travel the world.
0:10.9	I'm your host, Devin Gimble, and I believe that your expenses are your greatest untapped asset, if you know how to leverage them.
0:17.8	Ready to dive into the world of credit card points and miles so you can travel more, travel better, and travel often. Let's get started.
0:30.1	Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Courtney Downs,
0:35.5	an emergency medicine doctor with a love for all things
0:38.2	travel. After discovering that she could use continuing medical education or CME and credit card
0:43.9	points to create time and save thousands on travel and new experiences, she was inspired to share
0:49.0	what she had found with others in her shoes. In today's episode, Courtney discusses the importance
0:53.6	of taking time off for rest and
0:55.3	travel. She shares tips for overcoming the challenges professionals face and balancing work with
1:00.1	personal time. And she provides valuable insights into leveraging CME for travel and how to make
1:05.2	smart use of credit card points and perks. I hope you enjoy this conversation. Hi, Courtney. Welcome to the podcast and thank you
1:12.9	so much for being here today. Thanks for having me, Devin. It's really so good to be here. I'm so excited
1:18.8	to learn more about you, share more about your story, what you do with all of the podcast listeners.
1:24.0	Now, one of the things that I know about you is that you have made it your mission to enable
1:28.9	doctors to take time off and rest, travel more now, and live better. You encourage the use of
1:35.5	CME courses and conferences and health and wellness and adventure retreats. Why is this so important
1:41.5	to you? Well, you know, so I'm an emergency medicine doctor and burnout is sort of like a buzzword within
1:48.6	our community, within the physician community.
1:50.4	And so I just feel like it's so important to just take time off yourself and take time to reset.
1:57.9	And I think that travel is one of the tools that can sort of help us combat this. And I love
2:03.3	that using points make some of this so much more attainable for so many of us. So yeah, you mentioned
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