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Happy New Year to you and lang may your lum reek!

Say what now? This Scottish saying simply means long may your chimney burn, or long may you live! Whatever it means, I truly hope 2024 is a terrific year for you and yours.

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Lessons Learned in 2023

Like many folks, I have a process that I use to reflect on my life and work at the end of the year. It’s the same 3-step process I use for 90-day planning—reflect, review, redirect.

At the end of 2023, I joined Dr. Alaina Szlatchka and seven other business owners for a conversation on what learning and professional development leaders should focus on to improve our work in 2024.

My 3 lessons were:

1. Embracing Quality over Quantity
2. The Power of Learning by Doing
3. The Importance of Small Steps

You can listen to replays of this event here.

What lessons did you learn last year and what will you do differently in 2024?

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Measuring Outcomes

Are you overemphasizing the design and measurement of learning events versus learning processes?

Watch Dr. Alaina Szlachta from Measurement Made Easy break down how to focus your time and resources to predictably improve learning outcomes.

Design and Measure the Right Things to Predictably Improve Learning Outcomes

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And by the way, Alaina will soon be a guest on the Write Medicine podcast. Alaina is a Learning Architect and founder of By Design Development Solutions, helping learning leaders and professional development agencies improve the results of their learning programs through data enablement. She hosts Measurement Made Easy on YouTube.

Submit your questions here on Write Medicine's new podcast website.

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🎙️On the Podcast

Are you curious about how artificial intelligence (AI) can augment medical writing? Or are you wondering how AI could change the way we approach continuing education for health professionals?

Listen in as Núria Negrão PhD returns for the third and last in our AI series to share tangible strategies for content creation.

​Medical Writing in the Age of AI: Threat or Opportunity?

By the way, 2023 was a growth year for the Write Medicine podcast. We joined the Health Podcast Network, streamed across 25 countries, and grew listenership by 647%. Read more...

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Until next time,

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Alexandra Howson PhD, CHCP, FACEhp is a writer, researcher, and podcaster who shares her deep expertise in health care and education with new-to-the-field or CME-curious professionals to help them create educational content with confidence. She hosts Write Medicine, the premier podcast for CME/CPD professionals like you, wherever you are in the content creation process. Alex teaches Fundamentals of Writing and Research Ethics in the Professional Education Program in Medical Writing and Editing at the University of Chicago.

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