Editorial – New Journal Title

This journal started life as the Journal of European CME (JECME) in 2011. It now has a world-wide readership and attracts articles from far beyond the borders of Europe and in increasing numbers year on year. Article downloads in 2020 – 22195, in 2021 – 32773 and in 2022 – 43924. We want our submissions to continue to rise and felt that non-European authors might be discouraged from submitting by the journal title. Therefore, we now have the new title of the Journal of CME (JCME).

We have resisted the move to replace CME with CPD because we think the distinction between the two should be preserved and because almost all our papers deal with education rather than professional development, important although that is. We hold that CPD reflects the adjustments professional people make in response to their individual circumstances. As such it can only happen in the context of these circumstances and is unlikely to be helped by scholarly articles not directed at specific learners and their professional relationships.

We have also held fast to the old traditional name of CME, but we have added a strapline, “An international journal on CME-CPD across the health professions” to indicate that the journal recognises both CME and CPD, that it relates to all the health professions and is not solely or even mainly directed at physicians.

Having cast off the “European” shackle, JCME can now be unreservedly proud of its Special Collection guest editors. These have comprised two Europeans, Reinhard Griebenow and Peter Henning, two Americans, Don Moore and Kathy Chappell and for this year an Australian, Lisa Sullivan who has an Irish name. We can now announce that for 2023, the JCME Special Collection will be devoted to “Expanding the voices in CME-CPD”. This theme reinforces our new strapline and emphasises our commitment to listening to the voices in the CME community that come from people who are not physicians. We want to hear from nurses and other allied health professionals, pharmacists, accreditors, regulators, and most all from the patients.