Email your comments

Individual specialty organisations such as the BGS are being encouraged by the various Royal Colleges to develop a portfolio for delivering CME relevant to the specialty.

This portfolio should include scientific meetings, web-based learning and paper (journal) formats. Currently the BGS does not have a paper based mode for delivering CME to its members. Over the last year UKMC and the Education and Training Committee have debated the relative merits of providing the BGS membership with a paper based CME journal, with UKMC accepting a recommendation from E&T Committee that a trial should be undertaken. To embark upon producing this from scratch would be no small undertaking for the Society and is not something that Age & Ageing wish to develop. As the BGS already has links with CME Journal Geriatric Medicine by sponsoring (at no cost to the Society) the lead article in that journal, negotiations were entered into with RILA, the publishers of CME Journal Geriatric Medicine. I am delighted to announce that our Chief Executive has negotiated with RILA that CME Journal Geriatric Medicine will be made available (at no cost to individual members) for a trial period of 18 months. During this trial period our new Director of CPD, Alan Sinclair, will be liaising with the membership to determine the added value of receiving this journal in terms of meeting their CME needs.

Each review article in CME Journal Geriatric Medicine is peer reviewed and provides best of five format MCQs to test the reader’s learning. CME Journal Geriatric Medicine is published 3 times a year and will be mailed to you with the Newsletter. You should receive your first free copy in the summer of 2007. As editor of the journal I will welcome your feedback on the educational content of the journal and recommendations for future topics to be reviewed.

Duncan R Forsyth
Editor
CME Journal Geriatric Medicine