As a parent I would need to arrange child care, change office hourse for traveling (loss in revenue) , and then the financial burden of travel expenses on top of the actual class itself.  This would force me to take classes that may not benifit my practice or stregthen my knowledge of anything if I am foced to find a weekend that works for my family and then what would be affordable at that time.  This does not mean I have not done in person classes at all, just means I have more freedom to choose when I might be able to do so and find classes that would benifit myself and my patients.  I have learned a great deal online classes, it allows me to pause to take notes, rewatch segments I may not of understood the first time or grasped, and allows me to have direct contact to ask questions when I think of them.  Everyone has different learning styles and we should embrace that, being stuck in a convention all for 8 hours a day sitting still is not how I am able to focus.  If it is a hands on technique then yes I am in person, but not things that benifit our profession needs to be hands on.  If this becomes a new rule it should be across the board.  We are under the board of medicine then it should be everyone who licensed with the board then should have to do their CEUs in person and not be singled out.