Continuing Professional Development / Continuing Education (CPD/CE)
What is PD?
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Professional development (PD) is the continual learning and develop that we undertake throughout our careers. This is important to keep our skills and knowledge up to date to ensure that we are able to work safely, legally and effectively. It is essential in order to maintain high levels of competence within our scope of practice and to enable us to competently expand our scope of practice. By doing this we will benefit ourselves, health organisations and our patients.
How do I complete my PD?[edit | edit source]
Your PD should consist of a range of learning activities that are relevant to your current or future practice. The most common type of learning activity completed is the attendance on a course, however, in relation to Physiopedia the learning activitiy might be the reading of an article, contributing to an article or initiating a discussion in relation to an article. As long as you reflect upon these experiences and implement any new learning into your practice you can consider yourself to be professionally developing.
PD Portfolio
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These PD experiences should be evidenced and recorded in your professional portfolio. Using a portfolio to record your learning experiences will encourage your reflection and learning as well as building evidence to support your professional development. It can then be used to share with others or be drawn upon to produce other documents such as a CV, profile or statement
If you do not have a portfolio you can use this free online portfolio system.
Proformas
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User Proforma (link to word doc) - use this proforma if you have learnt from reading physiopedia.
Contributer Proforma (link to word doc) - use this proforma if you have learnt by contributing to physiopedia
