Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons

doi:10.1136/bmj.320.7232.432

BMJ 2000;320:432-435 ( 12 February )

Education and debate

Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons

Editorials by du Boulay and Asbjørn Holm

Cathy Peck, director of continuing professional development ^a, Martha McCall, executive officer ^b, Belinda McLaren, research assistant ^b, Tai Rotem, research assistant ^b.

^a health-media.net, London EC1R 3DB, ^b Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Correspondence to: C Peck cathy_peck@hotmail.com

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Continuing professional development is the process by which health professionals keep updated to meet the needs of patients,the health service, and their own professional development. Itincludes the continuous acquisition of new knowledge, skills,and attitudes to enable competent practice. There is no sharpdivision between continuing medical education and continuing professionaldevelopment, as during the past decade continuing medical educationhas come to include managerial, social, and personal skills, topicsbeyond the traditional clinical medical subjects. The term continuingprofessional development acknowledges not only the wide rangingcompetences needed to practise high quality medicine but alsothe multidisciplinary context of patient care.

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We obtained information from an assessment of the relevant policies, and interviews with directors of continuing professionaldevelopment of the UK medical royal colleges, the UK Joint Centrefor Education in Medicine, the European Union of Medical Specialties,the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of . . . [Full text of this article]

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