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What is Continuous Professional Development

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Advancing Health Education With Telemedicine
Continuous improvement mindset where professionals guide their own training. Applying self-direction, they assess needs and identify ways of addressing them.
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Focusing on Continuous Professional Development for Health Professionals: The Inward Transformation
Mildred Vanessa López Cabrera (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico), Christian Pérez-Villalobos (Universidad de Concepción, Chile), and Mauricio Alberto Cortes Cely (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 11
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8783-6.ch017
Abstract
The context in which health professionals practice is constantly evolving. The entry of new technologies in medicine has put more than one specialist to the test. It is worth noting that these technologies are rapidly updated, generating new solutions every year. While this contributes to offering quality programs for the training of new professionals, how can a professional even aspire to keep up to date with all these developments? This chapter provides some proposals and reflections to develop professional development goals for health professionals based on a continuous professional development mindset.
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Use of Estimation and Control Techniques for Increasing of Efficiency Training for Public Officers in Russia
Pedagogical methodology, which consists in the approach to “Lifelong Education” in accordance with human needs at every stage of his personal and professional development, providing its adaptation to the changing scientific, technical, industrial and social conditions, continuous personal and career growth.
Published in Chapter: Use of Estimation and Control Techniques for Increasing of Efficiency Training for Public Officers in Russia; From: Handbook of Research on Estimation and Control Techniques in E-Learning Systems
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Participant Evaluation of an Online Course on Language Assessment Literacy
Continuous professional development (CPD) refers to the life-long learning and the learning activities professionals engage in to develop, maintain and improve their knowledge, skills, experience, and understanding.
Published in Chapter: Participant Evaluation of an Online Course on Language Assessment Literacy; From: Emerging Practices for Online Language Assessment, Exams, Evaluation, and Feedback
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