Continuous professional development for psychiatrists

Continuous Professional Development for Midwives

The South African government implemented a compulsory one year community service strategy to address the shortage of human resources in the health sector since 1998. Medical practitioners (1999), dentists (2000) and pharmacists (2001) and other seven professional groups followed in 2003 and in July 2004. The nursing profession followed after the Health Minister’s announcement, the processing of...

Keeping my professional development continuous

A new comprehensive model for Continuous Professional Development

BACKGROUND It is generally agreed that continuing professional development (CPD) for GPs is important for quality of care. Internationally, however, different approaches to identify the learning objectives and the CPD content have been chosen. OBJECTIVES To improve GPs' CPD in Denmark we explore how general practitioners' (GPs) self-experienced learning needs can be combined with learning nee...

Postgame analysis: using video-based coaching for continuous professional development.

BACKGROUND The surgical learning curve persists for years after training, yet existing continuing medical education activities targeting this are limited. We describe a pilot study of a scalable video-based intervention, providing individualized feedback on intraoperative performance. STUDY DESIGN Four complex operations performed by surgeons of varying experience--a chief resident accompanie...

Language Learning Materials Development for Teachers’ Professional Development

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...