You are the future of intensive care medicine.
Your goal is to provide cutting-edge treatment, push the limits and achieve the highest standards of practice possible.
You deserve the opportunity to excel because the networks, knowledge and skills you acquire now will impact on the quality of patient care in your hospital for years to come.
You deserve every opportunity because you are driven to improve and hungry to learn.
To make that happen, you first need to convince your boss to send you and we can help with that.
FIVE STEPS TO CONVINCE YOUR BOSS THAT YOU NEED TO BE AT SG-ANZICS 2017
Just take the steps, use the letter we’ve already prepared for you, and we’ll see you at SG-ANZICS 2017!
Step 1: Understand what your hospital, your boss and you need.
Make 2 lists: a list of your goals and a list of challenges that your hospital, your boss and you are facing. Study the scientific programme and use the lists to map out your conference, selecting the plenary lectures, thematic sessions, breakfast & lunch symposia and hands-on workshops that will allow you to reach those goals and rise to the challenges.
Step 2: Stress the need to invest in continued education
Stress the need to stay current on the latest and newest knowledge and research while tapping the experience of other delegates. Expound on the benefits of making new friends and network with the invited world renowned expert speakers. There may even be opportunities to discuss about exchange programmes, observer-ships or fellowships to top intensive care units around the world.
Step 3: Tell your boss about the latest equipment & tech available for intensive care units
You will be able to make an informed contribution to discussions on your organisation’s purchasing decisions or arrange for equipment demonstrations back in your country, as many leading vendors are assembled under one roof as part of SG-ANZICS 2017‘s trade exhibition.
Step 4: Use or adapt the letter we prepared for you
When it comes to professional development, most bosses prefer a written request, and we’ve created a letter template to get you started in the right direction. Use and adapt it to suit your individual situation.
Step 5: Promise your boss that when you return, you will share your new found knowledge
What you take away from the conference will vastly improve your skills in assessment, diagnosis and treatment, and the multidisciplinary approach of the conference will open your mind to all the vital connections in science and medicine. But intensive care care is all about team work, so in order to effect change, you will promise your boss to share what you have learnt to make things better.
FROM: [NAME]
TO: [NAME]
SUBJECT: Why I need to attend SG-ANZICS 2017
Dear [NAME],
Following up on our discussion, I would like to formally request to attend SG-ANZICS 2017.
I believe that, as a member of the next generation of intensive care provider, I need the chance to learn. The competence and expertise I acquire now will help my clinical development and hopefully improve the quality of patient care at [ORGANISATION] and the entire region for time to come.
There are so many reasons why my participation at SG-ANZICS 2017 will benefit [ORGANISATION] and my career:
What I take away from the conference will vastly improve my skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of critical care patients – skills that I look forward to sharing with the team at [ORGANISATION].
I strongly believe that I deserve every opportunity to prepare myself not only to make an impact on the future of critical care, but to advance it and be the best that I can be.
I have become inspired by this forthcoming conference – and I hope that these points inspire you to allow me to attend SG-ANZICS 2017. And yes, I promise to buy you a souvenir when I am there!
Here is the cost breakdown in SGD, and I strongly recommend that we take advantage of the Early Bird Rate, in effect until 10 January 2017.
Registration: $___ (Early Bird Rate) $___ (Regular Rate)
Airfare: $___
Hotel: $___
Meals: $___
Total Cost: $___
Please let me know if there’s any additional information required. I’ll be happy to provide.
Very truly yours,
[NAME]
