Educational Topics

These education topics are designed to help orthopedic and musculoskeletal practice leaders strengthen their foundations, branch into new opportunities, and cultivate thriving teams, operations, and patient relationships. Whether you’re planting the seeds of business growth, tending to compliance and culture, or nurturing data-driven decisions, each session provides practical strategies to help your practice—and the people it serves—reach new heights.

This is just a sampling of sessions, and the website will be updated on a rolling basis starting in November 2025.

Ancillary Services

Flourish and thrive by adding and expertly managing ancillary services— imaging, therapy, DME, and more—to diversify revenue, streamline care, and elevate the patient experience in your orthopedic practice. 

• The Business of DME: Metrics, Models, and Market Forces 
• NEW! Masterclass format:  Grow a Thriving Rheumatology Service Line—From Seed to Scale Masterclass (separate registration required)

Artificial Intelligence

Our AI track helps your practice flourish—from big-picture strategy to decision points and real-world wins. Leave with a clear roadmap, guardrails for safe adoption, and quick wins you can plant right away to grow capacity, access, and ROI. Nurture sustainable growth by deploying AI for business operations.

• Practical AI Operational Applications for the Orthopedic Practice
• AI in Orthopedics: Current State and Future Impact Agentic
• Smarter Tech, Stronger Growth: AI Strategies to Scale with Ease
• The AI Dilemma: Staff More, Outsource, or Automate?

Business Development

Grow and prosper with business development education sessions that turn 
market insights into action—equipping your ortho/MSK team to expand 
referral networks, unlock new revenue, and win in your local market.

• Strategic Patient Targeting for Practice Growth
• Strategic Planning for the Modern Orthopaedic Practice
• Diversification as a Strategy for Preserving Practice Independence
• NEW! Masterclass format   Direct-to-Employer Contracts Masterclass (separate registration required)  

Culture

Assess different ways to manage office culture and how to implement changes at your own practice. Cultivate a thriving workplace where people feel valued, engaged, and ready to grow together.

• Building a Culture People Want to Be Part Of 
• The S.H.A.R.P. Approach to Employee Retention and Job Satisfaction
• Workforce of the Future: Preparing Orthopedic Practices for Gen Z

Data Analytics

Use data to improve satisfaction and patient outcomes. Learn how to leverage one’s own data to benchmark against other practices. Cultivate insights that help your practice thrive and stand tall among industry benchmarks.

• Benchmarking in Action: How Data Drives Practice Succes
• Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data to Improve Orthopedic Practice Performance
• Secrets from Top Performing Practices

Finance

Assess how small non-financial changes, such as increasing efficiency, can 
have a positive impact on the bottom line. Strong roots support bold growth. These sessions strengthen your foundation—so your practice can flourish.

• An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
• Measuring What Matters: KPIs for Revenue Cycle Success

Human Resources

Analyze current human resources practices and determine which should be updated, removed, or added in order to improve morale, increase patient satisfaction, or otherwise make positive changes in the practice. These sessions help you enrich your team’s growth environment.

• Leading Remote Teams Effectively
• Winning the Talent Battle: Private Practice Recruitment Tips
• Workforce of the Future: Preparing Orthopedic Practices for Gen Z  

Leadership

True leadership is less about control and more about cultivation—creating the conditions where people, ideas, and organizations can take root, grow strong, and truly flourish.

• Developing a Team of Problem Solvers
• From Clinician to Leader: Making the Transition
• Leading Without a Title: Influence Across Physicians and Staff

Marketing & Communications

Discuss different tactics for marketing, communications, and social media; including the advantages and disadvantages of each and how they could impact one’s practice. Cultivate strategies that help your message blossom and your audience connections thrive.

• Mastering Visibility in the New Era of Patient Search  
• Establishing a Strategic Growth Plan in Today’s Challenging Landscape
• Strategic Patient Targeting for Practice Growth

Operations

Help your practice thrive with operations sessions that cut friction, boost efficiency, and free your team to focus on patient care. Tend your practice like a garden. Smart operations make growth sustainable and stress less likely.

• Preventing Procedure Cancellations Through Smarter Prior Authorization Workflows
• Smarter Access and Smoother Schedules Through Automation and Integration
• The AI Dilemma: Staff More, Outsource, or Automate?