Aileen Barrett

1 Introduction Continuing medical education (CME) is defined as ‘any activity that serves to maintain, develop or increase the knowledge, skills and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public or the profession’ [1]. Hence, CME is often viewed as a lifelong learning process necessary for the professional development of medical providers [1-3].

Changing jobs, taking on new and exciting roles, is always challenging. Doing so in a pandemic is a whole other level of challenge. So when Annette and Paul kindly invited me to reflect on the changes I had seen at TCT in the last few years, my first memories are of firefighting, constantly trying to keep up, grappling with how to get ahead and wondering how to move from managing to future-proofing and innovating.

1 BACKGROUND Faculty development (FD) is integral to the implementation of educational programmes.1, 2 However, engaging existing faculty in new initiatives or attracting new faculty is challenging.