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The email response to our new weekly CET matters column suggests that the introduction of an online forum would be timely. Comments ranging from 'massive over-regulation and unnecessary bureaucracy for a basically low risk profession' to the contrasting 'my mother can do the CET and she's a cleaner/I can attend the three-day course, party and get all my points/we all pay him a fiver to get the answers' have all been overheard!

The changes are significant and are aimed at making CET do what it is meant to - ensure a continuing level of clinical competency. However, change requires adaptation as well as clarity of purpose and design.

The CET Talk forum offers two things to help here - an opportunity for you to upload any questions or demands for clarification regarding the whole CET area, as well as a chance for you to offer either criticism or support for the changes. Go to the home page of the website and in the Editor's Choice area you will see the tab CET Talk. Click here and it will take you to the link to the forum. Register as a participant and you are away.

You may also notice in the Editor's Choice area a tab for 'Interactive CET'. This week we start an online exercise which will offer the first of your required interactive CET points. Follow the links and you will get to a case study, the first of four on maculopathy over the coming month. Reading through this, you will be asked some questions as you go.

At the end of the four weeks there will be some further questions, successful completion of which will initiate instructions of how you then contact us to gain your interactive point. As the new CET cycle progresses, we will be running a variety of different modalities so keep an eye on our weekly column CET Matters for further announcements. ?