Extending the Strategic Reach and Impact of Healthcare Professional CPD

Abstract

This chapter provides a theoretical insight into the nature of continuing professional development within the health and medical professions. Ensuring the critical relevance and meaningful nature of CPD for clinical practitioners and the assessment mechanisms used to assess its effectiveness remains challenging in terms of how to engage professionals with timely, relevant, and tailored CPD content. The philosophical basis of constructivism is used to provide a theoretical lens through which knowledge construction and application can be integrated into the lifelong learning of post-qualifying members of the workforce.