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PROFESSION
Engaging with CPD I RECENTLY came across a CPD record card from 1998 and, having ‘reflected’ upon its contents and the report from the RCVS Education Committee (VR, March 21, 2015, vol 176, p 300), wished to respond. The profession has come a very long way since I qualified 20 years ago and it is perhaps important that we remember that. While browsing through those journals accessible via the most excellent RCVS Knowledge website, is it more important that I record every journal, every article that I read and how many minutes it took, or that I read and
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digest them? We could all very easily spend many hours per annum filling in forms, on the RCVS website, but would it not be better spent pursuing knowledge? I am quite sure we would all welcome some clarity on how records might be kept in a simple and timeefficient manner. The world at large appears obsessed with recording ‘selfies’ to prove that they have been somewhere or seen something. Meanwhile they often miss the value of that which they are experiencing or have travelled to see. Albert Einstein once said ‘Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.’ Could we perhaps learn from him and not find it necessary to summarise the value of learning into 140 characters or less simply to satisfy the completion of a form, or prove that we have reflected? Might I request on behalf of the profession at large that we keep things ‘as simple as possible, but not simpler’? Gareth W. Harries, Gareth Harries Surgical Referrals, 12 Grange Park Drive, The Paddocks, Biddulph, Staffordshire ST8 7XU e-mail: [email protected] doi: 10.1136/vr.h1648
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Engaging with CPD Gareth W. Harries Veterinary Record 2015 176: 340
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Letters
PROFESSION
Engaging with CPD I RECENTLY came across a CPD record card from 1998 and, having ‘reflected’ upon its contents and the report from the RCVS Education Committee (VR, March 21, 2015, vol 176, p 300), wished to respond. The profession has come a very long way since I qualified 20 years ago and it is perhaps important that we remember that. While browsing through those journals accessible via the most excellent RCVS Knowledge website, is it more important that I record every journal, every article that I read and how many minutes it took, or that I read and
340 | Veterinary Record | March 28, 2015
digest them? We could all very easily spend many hours per annum filling in forms, on the RCVS website, but would it not be better spent pursuing knowledge? I am quite sure we would all welcome some clarity on how records might be kept in a simple and timeefficient manner. The world at large appears obsessed with recording ‘selfies’ to prove that they have been somewhere or seen something. Meanwhile they often miss the value of that which they are experiencing or have travelled to see. Albert Einstein once said ‘Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.’ Could we perhaps learn from him and not find it necessary to summarise the value of learning into 140 characters or less simply to satisfy the completion of a form, or prove that we have reflected? Might I request on behalf of the profession at large that we keep things ‘as simple as possible, but not simpler’? Gareth W. Harries, Gareth Harries Surgical Referrals, 12 Grange Park Drive, The Paddocks, Biddulph, Staffordshire ST8 7XU e-mail: [email protected] doi: 10.1136/vr.h1648
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Engaging with CPD Gareth W. Harries Veterinary Record 2015 176: 340
doi: 10.1136/vr.h1648 Updated information and services can be found at: http://veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/176/13/340.1
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