Complement your knowledge and learning at industry events

Events such as conferences, workshops, industry updates and symposiums are valuable for building knowledge and learning. These provide access to industry insights, skill-building opportunities, and expert perspectives that are often unavailable through traditional information sources, such as journals, media or through a workplace.

Build on your knowledge

Lifelong learning comes with the job for medical practitioners. Increasing knowledge, learning and skills are simply par for the course.

On-the-job training, courses, journals and readings, lectures, in-services, are all part of the traditional learning environment. Attending professional events complements and elevates opportunities for building on this learning by exposing medical practitioners to a broader medical community, leaders in the field, new research and findings and best practice.

Events provide gateways to deep dive into areas that can immediately impact patient outcomes. By applying insights gathered at events into best practices, new treatments, and data-driven strategies, medical practitioners can improve patient outcomes and experiences.

Soundboard concepts and ideas

Attending events with your peers is a good way to soundboard concepts, ideas and learnings, particularly when looking to broaden thinking. While our day-to-day colleagues are a great source of immediate support and feedback, the opportunity to broaden networks with like-minded and skilled peers, provides invaluable connections to seek new and unbiased feedback on findings, insights and patient cases.

Sharing knowledge and learnings beyond the event

The learning experience from an event does not end when you leave the room. One of the most beneficial elements of learning is talking to peers and colleagues in your workplace about the insights gathered at the event. This not only helps reinforce your own knowledge but also helps broaden knowledge for those working with and around you, which ultimately benefits the team and patients.

Expand horizons for your CPD requirements

All medical practitioners are required to undertake a number of hours of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) (in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand). Attending events is a constructive way to accrue CPD hours. Depending on the event program, some events offer the ability to accrue hours across all three CPD categories: 1, 2 and 3.

If you are undertaking CPD, remember to spend some time post-event to reflect on learnings and insights gathered, this may assist with CPD activities down the track.

Learning is not a one-way street

While the opportunities for complementing knowledge and learning are significant when you attend an event as a delegate, for presenters and speakers these events are equally beneficial. They provide an opportunity to share insights gathered, best practices and case studies, and new technologies and techniques with peers, positioning them as leaders within their field.

This is an opportune way to build a personal brand, positioning and platform with fellow medical professionals. While the saying goes, knowledge is power, the real power in knowledge is when it is shared with the greater populous.

Events provide medical practitioners with another avenue for further knowledge and learning. Remember to maximise insights from an event by following up on topics that held interest during sessions; reading research papers; connecting with presenters, speakers and other delegates for further discussion and deepen your knowledge.