Also, be mindful of the need to remain up to date with all information provided on legal and compliance subjects, and make sure you familiarise yourself with legal bulletins and notices sent out by your department heads, by the companies' legal advisers, the managing editor's office or by other senior executives.
An adequate knowledge infrastructure is needed to support the professionals to remain up to date.
Regarding specialization, Small (2011, pp. 79) argues that it is difficult for mixed-methods researchers to remain up to date on a broad range of methodological developments.
Considering that the total number of mutations is continuously growing, the reader is encouraged to use online databases (such as OMIM) in order to remain up to date.
It is becoming increasingly challenging, both technically and financially, to remain up to date with the latest developments of analytic procedures.
This new approach – CATHEDRAL – is nearly 1000 times faster than SSAP allowing CATH to remain up to date with the PDB.
First, physicians mentioned almost unanimously the impossibility to remain up to date with scientific information, because of the abundance of new literature and information sources.
Older participants sought CPD access for professional stimulation, as a mechanism to remain up to date with evidence based clinical practice and as a remedy for professional isolation.
This is also thought to be the case for poorly performing doctors who are less likely to remain up to date and more likely to work in isolation [ 29].
One explanation may be that experience alone does not sufficiently maintain clinical knowledge and skills and that a doctor needs to make a conscious effort to remain up to date [ 6, 26].
However, it is also the case that there is large amount of new musculoskeletal research published on a frequent basis, and one could argue that clinicians need to read widely to remain up to date with the best available evidence.
