Conference Confidential Maximizing learning opportunities for your practice credits, adding to their appeal and inspiring an urgency to attend. But, professionals, including chiropractors, are busy people who may not have time T for the full range of conference offerings. Furthermore, attending these events involves expenditures, which can make them cost prohibitive, compounded with having to close up shop for a few days – or arrange for a replacement – while away. Additionally, the need to send staff members for learning events can be seen as a further inconvenience, as this incurs more costs and results in being short-staffed while workers are out. However, the plain truth is that, in every profession, a good continuing education event – conference, workshop, seminar, lecture or even a webinar – can be a useful in-vestment for a practice/business. These events represent opportunities to enhance one’s knowledge and skill sets, network with colleagues or services that could benefit the practice/business, get away from the office to gain a clearer perspective on challenging issues, and more. Determine what you want to get out of your continuing education choices in order to calculate how much time, effort and expense you want to put into them. Many writers and speakers present ideas on how to maximize the benefits of confer-ence attendance; these can be found in great numbers on bookshelves and all over the Internet. The goal of this article is to collate some of those ideas and initiate a strategy for DCs who wish to identify, partake in and benefit from the various learning events offered throughout the profession. 8 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR | SEPTEMBER 2010 www.canadianchiropractor.ca he month of September ushers in a new season of seemingly interminable con-tinuing education (CE) and professional development events in all industries and professions – chiropractic is no exception. Some or all of these may offer CE Maria DiDanieli feature
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