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On doclift, specialty events are CME-certified and free for participants. The fair question is: how does that add up?
A look at the program shows the range: a colloquium on psychotherapy and psychosomatics from University Hospital Zurich. Neurofeedback for depression from Heidelberg University Hospital. A neurology symposium for primary care from Balgrist University Hospital. Fatigue and long COVID from Kantonsspital St. Gallen.
These aren't leftovers — they're regular teaching formats from university hospitals, worth between 2 and 9 credits. The full list of partner hospitals shows who's behind them.
For the institutions, reach is the payoff. Education that happens anyway reaches a multiple of the thirty people in the lecture hall — at no extra effort. That strengthens the institution's profile and affects referrals and recruitment.
In this model, the participant isn't the product — she's the reason the whole thing works: no clinicians, no reach — and no reach, no value for anyone else involved.
Free doesn't mean unconditional. Whoever attends is registered and generates usage data. What matters is how transparently that's handled — not whether it happens.
Access to university-level teaching shouldn't fail because of budget. This isn't charity — it's a trade: knowledge for reach. Find the upcoming dates in our monthly overview.
