My understanding is that the proposed amendment to our CEU requirements are to prevent isolation, as well as maintain high standards to keep our providers out of trouble, as was stated in the email we received a few weeks ago from Dr. Foley. 

Bad providers exist in every profession. This remains true, regardless of the setting they practice in, opportunities for connection, as well as their requirements for CEUs. As noble as the intention is, modifying CEU requirements simply will not weed out bad chiropractors.

Respectfully, connection and fighting isolation is not the purpose of a CEU. A CEU is intended to expand upon our knowledge and skill base to promote clinical excellence. Connection should be encouraged through local gatherings by profession-specific and locality-specific groups (for example the UVCA). 

As many of the other commenters have stated, a requirement for in-person CEU credits will only prove to be restrictive for many in practice. In my personal experience, there are not adequate in-person CEU opportunities within reasonable distance within my specialty (pediatric and prenatal). This would require me to travel, which means significantly more time and money, as well as time away from my family. In a two-chiropractor household, with young children and no family to help care for them when we are away for continuing education, this would be absolutely debilitating. Potentially even career-ending.

The current set up of CEU requirements allows my husband and I to grow in our field while continuing to serve our community as well as our family. Please do not take this away from families who are trying to grow, serve in their community, and not burn out in the process.