SEP-1 adapts to volume concerns

by Carolyn Riel

While this isn’t technically my first in-person ACDIS event, it is my first national conference. I first came on board with ACDIS in September 2019, and just two short months later, they threw me in the deep end with that year’s Outpatient Symposium. I think at that point, I had just started to get a grasp on what exactly CDI is. The different nuances between inpatient and outpatient were still beyond me.

Now, two years later, I am finally attending my first annual ACDIS conference. I remember I was overwhelmed at the Symposium with the amount of people in attendance, commenting on that, and then being told, “this is nothing…wait ‘til you see national.”

They weren’t wrong, and I’m told this year’s attendance is lower than normal due to the pandemic, yet I’m still overwhelmed by just how many new faces there are. I guess that just speaks to how dedicated ACDIS’ members are.