If your continuing medical education (CME) program is like our program — committed to bringing valuable, high-quality, relevant and practical education to your learners as a means of improving practice and patient care — then, like us, you look at your CME mission statement as your battle cry.

It was 2009 and conversations had begun regarding whether becoming jointly accredited would be positive for the continuing education (CE) program at my university. Becoming jointly accredited can be positive for an organization.

Welcome to 2020, a new decade. As your new Almanac editor, I am entrusted with the opportunity and responsibility to serve your professional information needs, especially as they relate to our online footprint.

In this interview, we sit down with Dr. Jane Scheetz to discuss her most recent JCEHP article, “A Randomized Trial to Increase the Assessment Accuracy of Glaucoma and Optic Disc Characteristics by Orthoptists”.

The previous article in this series reviewed the role of failure as a learning tool, and explored case vignettes as an experiential learning methodology that can be used in CME/CPD activities to offer HCPs opportunities to try and fail without negative consequences to patients.