As a clinician how do you learn and stay updated? Do you read journals, either in print or on-line? Do you wait for systematic reviews from Cochrane? Do you attend meetings and conferences (or at least wish you could attend more or see the presenters' summaries)? Or do you wish you were alerted to new knowledge (via email or even Twitter) or have easy access to clinical guidelines and important research and innovation?

If your CPD strategy has mainly been to read the main journals in psychiatry or wider mental health you might need to think again. Read this blog by Paul Glasziou, a GP and professor of evidence based medicine, entitled 'How many journals do you need to read?' which might make you think.  

Welcome therefore to our Learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) area. Along with our 'Library' section (linking to journals, clinical guidelines and more) and 'Conversations' (linking to our blog, Twitter and more) this section hosts our videos, with recorded highlights of Institute events as well as one-to-one interviews with key speakers. We hope you enjoy viewing the recordings of some of our events and feel inspired to come along and take part in the many seminars and conferences that are held throughout the year.

For example scroll down to see

• Prof Mike Cooke's Q&A on how a busy Trust CEO stays updated
• Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer, along with Prof Mike Cooke, Prof Nick Manning and Prof David Greenaway, speaking at the opening of the IMH building in May 2012 (with a tour of the building too)
• Speakers at the MHRN 2012 conference
• Examples of KUF training content
• Prof Muir Gray speaking at the 2010 CLAHRC conference