The General Optical Council has invited registrants to have their say on the future for continuing education and training (CET) and how it might be linked to the proposed revalidation scheme.
The Council has contacted all registrants asking them to complete one of two online surveys - one for optometrists and one for dispensing opticians - on what changes they would like to see to CET. 'Following a successful 2007-09 CET cycle, we are now looking at how we can improve our CET scheme and how it will form part of revalidation from 2013,' it said.
The surveys ask registrants which of a given list of competencies and different learning formats they would like more CET to be available, whether practitioners should be required to gain a minimum number of points in certain specified competencies, and whether points should be checked each year rather than at the end of a three-year cycle.
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