The dramatic expansion of the clinically related neurological sciences over the past decade has inevitably demanded improved opportunities both for the dissemination of new original data and for postgraduate education—known to many as Continuous Medical Education (CME). This has led to a surfeit of meetings of scientific societies which cover a multitude of neurological subspecialties, and in addition there are many meetings sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. Encouraged by medical publishers, this trend has spawned a variety of new journals which not only lend scientific respectability to these societies, but also help to deal with the dramatic annual increase in the number of scientific papers submitted to scientific journals worldwide.

With the expansion of clinical neuroscience centres, neurologists are increasingly working together in packs, enabling individual neurologists to subspecialise, in addition to carrying out their general neurological duties. This, therefore, imposes a range of external CME requirements, which would normally include attendance at the …