Continous

Professional
Development

[Zayadi Zainuddin, MD, M.MedEd]

[Monday, 6 January 2014 ]
[Medical Program Study Of Bengkulu
University]

Aim Objectives
Aim
At the end of this lecture the participants
are expected to have information about
continuous professional development (CPD)
and its importance for medical doctors
Objectives
Explain differentation of CME and CPD
Discuss the half life of medical
knowledge
Explain the CPD cycle
Explain barrier and benefit of CPD
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I've learned that in medicine

nothing is "never" and it's
certainly never "always."

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Example of outdated
knowledge

Infectious hepatitis now hepatitis A

Serum hepatitis now hepatitis B
Non A non B hepatitis now hepatitis C
Diabetes was checked formerly by
urine ketones instead of blood glucose
Alcohol bad for the liver but good for
the heart?

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 50 years ago radical mastectomy

and radiotherapy Now lumpectomy
HRT was used to protect the heart
now considered harmful
Flu vaccine under age 5 was
routinely recommended in the past
Chest x-ray to scean for lung cancer

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 Rapidly advancing medical

technologies, higher patient
expectations, and the availability of
abundant patient health information
on the Internet are all forcing
doctors to update their education on
a regular basis.

 An increase of time for patient

consultations and a decline of time
for personal development

What is mean of CPD?

Continuing Professional
Development (CPD) or
Continuing Professional
Education (CPE) is the means by
which members of professional
associations maintain, improve and
broaden their knowledge and skills
and develop the personal qualities
required in their professional lives
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Continous Medical
Education (CME)

Educational activities which serve to

maintain, develop, or increase the
knowledge, skills, and professional
performance and relationships that a
physician uses to provide services for
patients, the public, or the profession
[source: ACCME: Accrediting Council
Continuous Medical Education]

CPD refers to
development of competencies
relevant to the practice profile of a
practitioner that may change over the
years, and professional development
endeavours are directed at enhancing
his quality of care and the delivery of
safe standard of practice

CPD for medical

professionals

CPD includes all activities that

doctors undertake, formally and
informally, in order to maintain,
update, develop and enhance their
knowledge, skills, and attitudes in
response to the needs of their
patients.

 CPD is any learning outside of

undergraduate education or
postgraduate training that helps you
maintain and improve your performance.
It covers the development of your
knowledge, skills, attitudes and
behaviours across all areas of your
professional practice.
It includes both formal and informal
learning activities

Why CPD is important for

doctors

Its helps you update what you learnt

at medical school and during
postgraduate to reflect :
- changes in practice,
- changes in the needs of patients and
the service, and
- changes in societys expectations
It enables you to keep up to date and
fit to practise, and maintain the
professional standards required of you.

Some key purposes of CPD

to ensure the standards of
professional practice,
to demonstrate to the public and
employers
that each doctor is up-to-date with
modern practice and knowledge,
thus ensuring patient safety,
too be accountable to regulatory
authorities and to the profession

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What is the half life of

medical knowledge?
Any new information we may gather
has a half-life of 5 years.
Emanuel E. "A half-life of 5 years" Can Med Assoc J 112:572,
1975

Lifelong learning is important, but no

more important than clinical
judgement, common sense and a
critical evaluation of new information.
A. J. MACGREGOR. Half-life of medical knowledge. CMA JOURNAL/MAY 17, 1975/VOL. 112
1165
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In 2000
285 of 474 conclusions (60%) were
still considered to be true,
91 (19%) were considered to be
obsolete,
and 98 (21%) were considered to be
Poynard T, Munteanu M, Ratziu V, Benhamou Y, Di Martino V, Taieb J, Opolon P. Truth Survival
in Clinical Research: An Evidence-Based Requiem? Annals of Internal Medicine
false.
2002;136(12):888-895

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One study:
The half-life of truth was 45 years
the rate of loss of truth is 0.75%
per year

Platell C, Hall JC. Half-life of truth in surgical literature Lancet

1997; 350:1752

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The CPD Cycle

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CPD Log

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Sources of CPD

Textbooks
Medical literature (journals)
Short term courses
Long term trainings (Masters, PhD)
Educational meetings (Conferences,
panels..)
Information from the media
Exchange of experience with colleagues
Reviving personal experience
Collecting experience out of school
Learning on own initiative
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Examples of CPD activities

include:
professional development meetings
development items in staff and team meetings
attending external conferences and
courses
attending internal conferences, courses
coaching and mentoring
participating in networks or projects
providing
opportunities for professional
development
discussions with colleagues or pupilsto reflect
on working practices, and
research and investigation

Barriers towards attending

educational activities

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http://www.aare.edu.au/07pap/sid07623.pdf

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Benefits of CPD
Build confidence and
credibility
Earn more
Achieve your career goals
Cope positively with change
Be more productive and
efficient

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How CPD benefits the

organisation

Helps maximise staff potentialby linking

learning to actions and theory to practice.
Helps set SMART (specific, measurable,
achievable, realistic and time-bound)
objectives
Promotes staff development.
Helps give a positive image/brand to
organisations.

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Thankyu

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