The increasing importance of continuing medical education (CME) in psychiatry is discussed. The need to take account of the principles of adult education (AE) and also of the diversity of current psychiatric practice and individual differences when developing CME programmes is emphasised. The relevance of mandatory CME to the assessment of practitioner performance is also discussed.
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