Money too tight to travel? Seminars never come close to your home town? Or maybe you've been burned by sloppy instructors or too crowded courses?
Read below about
one facility's decision to pass on travel for aquatic therapy training
in 2009.
INTERVIEW with Aili Pare, PT, Southlake Regional Health Centre, New Market, Ontario
ARN: Why did you first decide to bring continuing education to your facility instead of sending your people out for training?
PARE: It was a more practical option for us as there is little to no aquatic training offered for therapists in Ontario. It enabled us to train our staff and with outside registrants it helped to offset the cost.
ARN: With the economy problems looming, do you see custom seminars as an up-and-coming trend for 2009?
PARE: For our facility it makes sense. I think it would work well for facilities that don't have the funds to send all of their staff to a course or perhaps two or more facilities in the same area that don't have easy access to courses offered in major city centres.
ARN: Why did you pick ARN for training?
PARE: We were very impressed with the resources available online, Andrea Salzman (ARN Founder) seemed very knowledgeable and friendly and they offered a great hands-on course that could be tailored to fit our specific needs.
ARN: Did/will you open up the seminar to outsiders? Did this completely/partially cover your costs? Did you make a profit?
PARE: We did open the course to outsiders which offset the cost of the course for our staff and we did have a little money left over to purchase some pool equipment. We are holding a paediatric aquatic therapy course March 6-7, 2009 which will also be open to the public, so people can call Carrie Anne at (905) 895-4521 ext. 2389 for information.
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