The ArmchairMedical.tv Virtual Conference Pass
began with two ideas:
"Better care for patients starts with easier education for doctors"
and
"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed"
It was 2013, we were sitting in a small seminar room at the Sydney Hilton Hotel watching the 20 or 30 GPs who had given up their Saturday to attend a face to face educational event, furiously taking notes.
It was clearly an event that was making an impact with the attendees, and we were pleased it was making a difference. But it was sobering to realise there were 40,000 or so Australian GPs that due to circumstances beyond their control, couldn't be in the room.
Thousands of GPs and their patients were missing out on this practice changing education.
We knew then and there, that we had to find a way to share the education that a 'lucky few' were getting, with the rest of Australia.
We needed to implement a way for GPs like you to have access to everything we recorded rather than have you purchase access to single conferences as was the norm a decade ago.
We also had to remove the barriers to make it easier for GPs to learn.
Months later, ArmchairMedical.tv was born.
It started life as a simple website with a little over 300 lectures and a yearly subscription.
Today, GPs like you can attend dozens of conferences and other independent educational events a year without travel or sacrifice.
You can watch conferences in half of the time of live events, you can watch lectures while exercising or listen to them while in the car commuting.
Now every GP across Australia has access to exactly the same learning opportunities regardless of where they live.
To paraphrase famed author William Gibson, the future of medicine is already here, and it is now evenly distributed.
Welcome to the ArmchairMedical.tv Virtual Conference Pass, Australia's only GP Conference Subscription program that allows you to attend dozens of this year's best conferences and catch up on hundreds of recently finished events.
It has been designed to save you time and money while dramatically increasing your access to the very latest developments in medicine.
We hope you enjoy it!
PS If you would like to talk to us about your upcoming event or have questions about our conference pass,
please email [email protected] or phone our office on 02 9016 7116.