Medical conferences can be valuable tools for continuing medical education. They give doctors a chance to learn from leading experts so that they can keep up-to-date , and remain aware of what's happening at the cutting edge of their field. However, the problem is that lots of medical conferences are badly organized.
They waste a lot of time on unimportant things like the inauguration ceremony; or waiting for the chief guest, who is often an unpunctual politician. This means the audience is not respected , as a result of which the amount of time which is spent in educating the doctor is much less as compared to the total amount of time the doctor needs to spend at the conference ( and I am not even counting the time wasted in travelling to the conference hall !). This is why the real value of the medical conference as a means for effective continuing medical education is often lost.…
