Lifelong Learning: Claiming credits through your daily activities

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It’s no surprise that as ophthalmologists, we have a shared passion for lifelong learning and a commitment to our patients to provide the highest quality of care. As simple as it is to write, fulfilling our professional development and medical practice requirements may be cumbersome at times and challenging to fit into our tight schedules. Accomplishing these learning goals requires a bit of finesse to balance other, less professional areas of our lives, such as family or our social lives….

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What's the point of Continuing Medical Education anyway? Looking beyond content experts.

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What's the point of Continuing Medical Education anyway? Looking beyond content experts.

Much of last week was devoted to the annual and somewhat annoying task of reporting my Continuing Medical Education (CME) activity, referred to here in Canada as Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Between that and working on my year-end tax paperwork, it really has not been a fun week! Of course the purpose of this exercise is not just to file paperwork but rather to help us continue to develop as physicians. I had originally intended to write this article on how best to use technology to track these activities but this has evolved into a discussion on how to better ourselves as physicians through CPD activities.

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