Continuing Professional Development in Healthcare Sector

Human resource management in health care
sector
Task 2

Table of contents
• Introduction
• What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
• Differences between training and development
• Identifying individual mandatory training and development needs
• Benefits of CPD
• Key principles of CPD
• Relevance of CPD
• Constraints of CPD
• Evaluation of own role and training of staff
• CPD plan to improve own and staff training and development
• Facilitating CPD and linking it to institutional development
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
Continuing professional development refers to process of tackling and
documenting skills, knowledge and experience that is achieved by an
individual in both formal and informal manner. It includes the on-going
procedure developing and maintaining professional skills. In context of
this project, it will focus on continuing professional development and
its benefits, contains and relevance for staff.

What is CPD? Core concepts of CPD
CPD stands for continuing professional
development which can be defined as an
intentional development and
maintenance of skills as well as
knowledge level to perform
professionally in effective manner.
It includes the criterion of continuous
learning and training to enhance skills
and abilities for improving performance.