Sir, I really do thank you for providing regular verifiable CPD articles in your journal. As a working Mum with young children it was very easy to grab my copy of the BDJ and do my CPD either in my lunch break at work or whilst sitting in the car waiting for the daily after school activities to end.

However, in the last two copies of the BDJ, one article has not been readily available and has needed downloading in order to answer the questions. This therefore makes things less flexible and not so easily manageable.

Please do not make this a regular format and please print BOTH CPD articles fully in the BDJ.

The Editor-in-Chief responds: we have received several responses from amongst our 10,000 plus registered CPD users making a similar point to Dr Black. I am sorry to learn that some users do not at present find this new system as convenient a way of achieving CPD as when both papers were in the print version. We introduced this change together with other developments, as explained in my Editorial in December (BDJ 2006; 201: 739) in the hope that as a result more readers will go online and explore the advantages of the BDJ site and of electronic publishing in general. There is a lot of additional content and value in the BDJ site and we feel that this may be one method of prompting readers and users to explore it. The internet as a source of reference, information and education for the professional will continue to grow in content and significance whether we like it or not and part of our intention is to encourage connection and familiarity with this, as our new series in the journal also indicates (see p.255).

As one of the CPD papers is still in the print form, participants who for whatever reason do not want to go online to study the other paper, still have the opportunity to accumulate 24 verifiable hours per year, which is in excess of the current GDC requirement of an average of 15 hours. Alternatively, of course, it is possible to print a copy of the online-only CPD paper and read it in the conventional way. In addition, from June 2007, we will be introducing CPD in BDA News, which will be in the print version, so that BDA members will have a further way of accumulating CPD hours in the conventional way.

I am grateful for feedback as we are carefully monitoring the effect of this development, and the other changes that we have made from the beginning of this year. None of them are set in stone and we may need to make adjustments as time progresses.