Continuing professional development (CPD), also known as continuing medical education, has been around since the earliest days of institutionalized medical instruction. After graduation from medical schools, physicians continued to learn by meeting with their peers. Hospital-based grand rounds, case discussions, and meetings to discuss published medical papers made up the bulk of the continuing...

Continuing professional development (CPD) or continuing professional education (CPE) refers to lifelong learning, which is done for professionals in order to update specialized knowledge, skills, attitudes, ethical issues, and moral values after admission to a particular profession. Therefore, due to the increasing growth of knowledge in all areas of specialization, particularly in the field of...

OBJECTIVE To examine the psychometric validity and reliability of the incident reporting culture questionnaire (IRCQ; in Chinese) following an exploration of the reporting culture perceived by hospital nurses in Taiwan. DESIGN Scale development with psychometric examination and a cross-sectional study. SETTING Ten teaching hospitals. PARTICIPANTS A total of 1064 nurses participated with a...

Commendations: · The school has made considerable progress since the previous Teaching and Learning Audit particularly in the domains of Analysis and Discussion of Data and An Expert Teaching Team. · The involvement and contribution of the significant numbers of volunteers is exceptional. Volunteers assist teachers to differentiate their pedagogy for individual students or small groups within c...