Training to change practice : behavioural science to develop effective health professional education /
"Continuing professional development (CPD) is an umbrella term, covering all kinds of activities that help health professionals learn and develop throughout their careers (e.g., Peck et al. 2000, HCPC 2015). Among the most widespread CPD activities are the structured education opportunities tha...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
2023.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Continuing professional development (CPD) is an umbrella term, covering all kinds of activities that help health professionals learn and develop throughout their careers (e.g., Peck et al. 2000, HCPC 2015). Among the most widespread CPD activities are the structured education opportunities that we will describe in this book as CPD training courses, although also called educational meetings or workshops (Forsetlund et al. 2021) As long ago as 2002, the UK NHS was estimated to directly spend approximately £1 billion annually on workforce CPD (Brown et al. 2002). CPD is seen as crucial to developing the more flexible, multidisciplinary health workforce envisioned in the recent NHS Long Term plan (Karas et al. 2020). Given how much is invested in CPD, it is even more important that CPD is designed in such a way as to maximise practice improvement, so that the benefits of all this investment can be fully realised in terms of improving care delivery and ultimately health outcomes"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781119833505 1119833507 9781119833499 1119833493 9781394172214 1394172214 |