ABSTRACT
Busy professionals cannot absent themselves for study on the same basis as full-time undergraduates. Many professional societies and colleges now accredit activities such as discussion meetings and workshops as well as more formal courses. The keeping of portfolios and the videoing of practice are also coming to the fore. Other activities such as study trips to centres (or persons) of excellence will also need to be accredited and encouraged. As discussed earlier in this chapter, technology can help to provide study flexibility, although this requires new skills and approaches and supporting resources. Assessment, appraisal and monitoring will come to the fore, and events will go full circle with the need, already recognized by the GMC and alluded to earlier in this chapter, for undergraduates to become accustomed to this climate of appraisal, professional updating and responsibility.
