As an MD, I have to say that I found the ILCA conference I attended highly
informative and, of course, I believe that my colleagues would benefit
from attending.  However, I don't think that it's free admission that's
needed.  MD's need medical continuing education credits, and at most
lactation conferences there are only CEU's for nurses, CERP's for
IBCLC's, perhaps also credits for RD's, etc, but not for MD's.  That's
actually the reason I've been attending the LLLI/AAP Physician's Seminars
and more recently the Symposia sponsored by the ABM: they provide CME's.
If ILCA and other entities which put on lactation conferences
applied for CME credits with the AMA, AAFP, etc and the conference was
advertised to physicians with that feature, perhaps more would come.  Of
course, those that think breastfeeding is not important wouldn't come
anyway.  But it may help those who do but who don't get any lactation in
their regular CME courses but would appreciate and learn from these
conferences.  Just a thought.  Alicia Dermer, MD, IBCLC.