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What you get with an Education Subscription
- Access to all CEU courses accredited in your state for SLPs.
- Compliance training (with CEUs).
- Live webinars (may offer CEUs).
- Clinician mobile app.
What you get with a Premium Subscription
- Everything that comes with the Education Subscription.
- Home exercise builder.
- Patient education.
- Patient mobile apps.
With the home exercise builder, you can assign exercises to your patient. You can print them out, or your patient can access them via the patient mobile app.
My love/hate relationship with continuing education
Continuing education is one of the reasons I love being an SLP, but also one of the reasons I sometimes despair.
Why I love continuing education
I love going to work knowing that today will not be a repeat of any other day. Every new person I work with will be unique.
I know I have to keep learning new things, because the knowledge and skills I have today will not necessarily be the best for helping my patient tomorrow.
I love learning new things.
And the specific reason I love continuing education is that I know that every good presenter has spent HOURS pulling together the best information to share with us.
Have you ever looked at the reference list for a CEU course? I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time to read all those resources and then synthesize the information to make it useful.
Instead, let me find a great instructor who understands the topic and has done the work to prepare a great seminar!
But I also sometimes despair
Why? Because I know I will never know everything that could possibly be helpful to my patients. Sometimes, it’s overwhelming to realize just how much I don’t know.
And life is busy! I often feel like I don’t have an hour or two to sit down and take a course. Or longer, if it’s in-person.
And then there’s the cost. We all know that continuing education courses can get really expensive.
But here’s how I look at it
Learning just one new assessment or treatment method today could change the life of someone I work with tomorrow.
If I can complete just one high-quality continuing education course a month, then I’ll know at least 12 new things next year that I don’t know today
And honestly, I always learn more than one new thing from a good CEU course.
How I find the time for MedBridge CEUs
I’ve been taking continuing education courses through MedBridge since 2017.
I watch (or just listen to) the videos in 10 – 20 minute chunks of time, often while doing something else:
- Working out.
- Fixing dinner.
- Washing dishes.
- Driving between patients.
- Taking a walk.
- Doing housework.
Sure, sometimes I have to go back and listen again. But by consuming the videos in small bites, I can finish a course in a super-busy week when there’s no way I could have sat down for an hour or two.
Why I like MedBridge Education
I really like MedBridge’s continuing education courses for several reasons:
- High-quality presenters.
- Wide variety of topics.
- Videos provide great visuals.
- Test questions are interspersed throughout the courses.
- Easy to sign up for a course and download the materials.
- Watch through the website or via the MedBridge app.
- Take the courses at your own pace.
- Complete as many CEUs as you’d like during a year for one low price. As of May 2019, there are 532 courses for SLPs.
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