I have been invited to attend this week's virtual event via Labroots. This educational company sent me an advertisement for a free virtual educational event for scientists. I have never heard of them. Their slogan is: "Let's talk Science. Let's talk medicine."
My question is "What has been your experience and did you get CME, CEU or CE credits? What other educational companies would you recommend for universal CME/CE/CEU's ?
Disclaimer: To my knowledge I do not know anyone associated with this company or educational source personally and have nothing to gain other than the professional opinions of those who answer this question.
Thank you in advance,
Respectfully to ALL,
Jeanetta Mastron
Dear All who may read this.
I attended the first day of the Lab Roots virtual 2 day event all day while at home on the Holiday of Veteran's day November 11, 2015 from 5:30 am to 4:30 pm PST [ http://labroots.com/app_dev.php/virtual-event/id/3 ]. I very much enjoyed it. I found out that the CE's and CEU's are offered at the end of each 1 hour webinar session if you click on the CE icon. BUT NOT ALL webinar speakers were approved for CE or CME. So if you are going to attend only for CE/CME then you will want to look at the 'program' of who is speaking on what and if CE is awarded. in advance and plan your experience. They even had two key note speakers on Day 1. I do not know what they had on Day 2, which was today.
So I got 8 CE for the day.
AFTER the event they send you a link to the recorded webinar that you attended, BUT if you did not attend, you can still go to their home page and find the links to ALL of the webinars that were shown that day the the next day. I could not attend today, so I am looking forward to watching what I missed.
You actually have a choice of webinars to attend in the 1 hour session, just like a real seminar. And they have a virtual trade show that is available in between the 1 hour webinars. So it is like a flash with a help desk, information, videos, live chat etc. I found it very interesting.
I prefer live seminars and trade shows, but unfortunately I can not afford an to attend a live international or global seminar/conference of this magnitude.
I mainly watched webinars related to Cholesterol testing, Cholesterol test interpretations and fallacies, PSCK9 Inhibitors and I watched about FDA Device law proposals. But there were many other possible webinars that I was not so interested in.
Any way I was sent the 'on demand' links today for the recordings. You are given 6 months to watch them and get CE/CME credit for Clinical and other Research Professionals and Medical Doctors.
From what I understand it is the third virtual seminar, all have been free registration, free to participate and attend, the CE/CME is free and if you did not attend or register to attend you can still watch the recorded webinars and obtain free CE/CME up to 6 [six] full months from the date of the seminar. The CE that I tried to obtain was via AACC.
Well that is my report and I think it is a good deal. I would also like to disclose again that I have no financial or other interest other than learning from the seminar and obtaining the CE. I do not know of any one who attended, but they did show the name of the researchers who attended. There were only 99 people attending, but could have been more today. I do not know. That is a shame because it is such a wonderful event. Some of the presentations show the speaker 'live' in the left side of the screen, while others do not show the speaker at all. You can ask a question during or right after the presentation. You can network with ANY of the attendees who respond to your desire to 'chat' or network.
The next two-day international Virtual Event is not specifically for Clinical Research Scientists, but it is called Laboratory Animal Sciences (LAS) Virtual Conference and will take place on February 3rd and 4th, 2016. I am not interested in this, but thought maybe someone reading it would be. The site also lists the next 6 virtual events up to September 2016 : Precision Medicine, NeuroScience, Molecular Diagnostics, Genetics and Genomics [I will probably attend this one] & Microbiology & Immunology.
Hope this helps someone!
Respectfully,
Jeanetta Mastron
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