Ever since becoming a resident, looking for continuing education courses has hit the same pain point every time: ultrasound, manual therapy, foot and ankle, neuro, pediatric rehab… The courses are scattered across a dozen society and institution websites. I’d have to refresh the sites every few days, and I was never sure if I’d actually seen a particular post before.
Later on, I set up web scrapers for these course pages in my Home Assistant at home to automatically notify me of new courses, and things finally got a lot easier. But realizing I’d be completing residency soon, this little tool sitting at home wouldn’t be able to keep reminding the junior residents. Figuring I had Claude anyway, I just asked it to scrape all the courses and announcements from these 17 rehab-related societies and institutions, aggregate them in one place, update automatically every 3 hours, and put it on the web for everyone to use.
And so, this website was born:
👉 https://courses.drpwchen.com
What’s on the site:
- 📅 Latest courses: See everything on one page. You can sort by event date, exclude past events, and filter by category and source.
- 🗓️ Event calendar: See at a glance what courses are happening this month.
- 📣 Latest announcements: Catches the latest announcements from the various societies too.
- 🔔 Subscribe for notifications: If you want to be notified, you can subscribe via RSS or ntfy. New courses get pushed to you automatically, so you don’t have to patrol the websites yourself.
A few notes:
- The data is automatically aggregated from the public announcement pages of each society and institution. It only shows titles and links, routing you back to the original site. This is an unofficial aggregation; please refer to the original announcements for the actual information.
- No login required. Clicking on an event directly opens the original announcement page.
It’s purely a tool I built for myself that I’m opening up, hoping it helps everyone in our specialty too~
If you notice any missing societies or institutions, or if you think of any features, feel free to let me know and I’ll add them in! 🙌
If this tool has saved you some time, feel free to buy me a boba tea to keep the server spinning 🧡
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