Simon Jones: Upon reflection

Those maintaining professional registration with the General Optical Council may well still be feeling the warm fuzziness of completing another continuing professional development (CPD) cycle a few weeks back.  

One of the new additions to the 2022-25 cycle was a reflective exercise for registrants. The introduction of the exercise, which was made available in July this year when the majority of CPD points for the cycle had been earned, was to create greater insight among registrants into their practice and what may be some areas to focus on during the next three years.  

The rationale behind the reflective exercise seems perfectly reasonable, but from reading message boards and Facebook groups in recent months, the process seems to have been the bane of registrants’ existence.