Built a PM&R Continuing Education Radar
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. ...