Paving the Way Forward for Evidence-Based Continuing Professional Development.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-17-2023

Publication Title

The Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Keywords

continuing professional development, competency, education, toolkit, knowledge translation, faculty development

ISSN

1554-558X

Abstract

Continuing professional development (CPD) fosters lifelong learning and enables health care providers to keep their knowledge and skills current with rapidly evolving health care practices. Instructional methods promoting critical thinking and decision making contribute to effective CPD interventions. The delivery methods influence the uptake of content and the resulting changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavior. Educational approaches are needed to ensure that CPD meets the changing needs of health care providers. This article examines the development approach and key recommendations embedded in a CE Educator's toolkit created to evolve CPD practice and foster a learning experience that promotes self-awareness, self-reflection, competency, and behavioral change. The Knowledge-to-Action framework was used in designing the toolkit. The toolkit highlighted three intervention formats: facilitation of small group learning, case-based learning, and reflective learning. Strategies and guidelines to promote active learning principles in CPD activities within different modalities and learning contexts were included. The goal of the toolkit is to assist CPD providers to design educational activities that optimally support health care providers' self-reflection and knowledge translation into their clinical environment and contribute to practice improvement, thus achieving the outcomes of the quintuple aim.

Comments

The authors thank members of the advisory committee, members of SACME, focus group participants, and the reviewers for their valuable contributions to this project. The authors also thank the ACCME for their support of this work.

DOI

10.1097/ceh.0000000000000500

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