Hello Julia,
This was returned to me so I have resent it.
the Australian Physiotherapy Association has just introduced mandatory
continuing professional development and it has been on trial since January
1999, there is a three
year period to make the 100 points required - well within reach based on
most current physios attendance at professional development events. Reading
literature, inservice education, managing committees etc as well as formal
courses are all included in
MCPD.
Unfortunately, it only applies to members of the APA but eventually, if the
crunch comes, the one with a registered MCPD portfolio will be leaps and
bounds in front both professionally and in job searching.
I think your example of not participating in CPD (not leaving patients) is a
furphy - how can you maintain a high standard of practice - clinical or
otherwise - without it. PP are deluding themselves if they think they are
doing their patients a service by not leaving them to learn and improve.
It has been said that the average daily newspaper has more information in it
than a person received in a whole lifetime pre 18th century so how can you
possibly be at your professional peak if you don't continually update. I
have been in the game long enough to see huge professional changes from my
student days.
Cost can be a factor but it doesn't cost much to read an article or browse
selectively through the web pages or belong to a physio (or other) mailbase.
We need a cultural change - when I worked in the USA, I learnt that physios
and other professionals don't think twice about paying big money for their
courses. Here in Sydney, their has been a history of subsiding course so
they appear cheap and once you start charging proper prices, people baulk at
it.
i understand the APA MCPD development committee did extensive research
before embarking on this project so you could contact them.
Anna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julia O'Sullivan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, 20 May 2000 0:15
Subject: Continuing Professional Development - research re attitudes and
culture
> I am undertaking some research with physiotherapists to investigate
support
> for CPD - this forms part of the CSP's project on CPD & Lifelong Learning.
>
> One of the findings related to the development of work-based learning and
> portfolio-keeping is that physiotherapists are reluctant to take time away
> from treating patients to undertake CPD in the workplace and there seems
to
> be a guilt culture around this. I hope to be able to propose some ways of
> overcoming this.
>
> I am looking for literature/information/references around this attitude
and
> culture - is it just in physiotherapy or does it occur in other
professions
> - therapy, health and beyond?
>
> Any suggestions will be very welcome.
>
> Julia O'Sullivan
> CPD Adviser
> Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
> Tel: 020 7306 6612
>
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