What counts as a CPD in pharmacy?

What counts as a CPD in pharmacy?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the process by which pharmacists and pharmacy technicians keep up-to-date through learning.

What should a CPD plan contain?

What do I want/need to learn?

• Steps you are going to take over the next few years that will bring you closer to your career goals.
• What specific skills, knowledge, and experience you need to develop in order to achieve these goals.
• What activities you are going to do to fulfil the goals.

What is a planned CPD?

A Planned CPD record shows development of your practice (knowledge and/or skills) based on a learning event or activity that you knew was going to occur.

Why is CPD important in pharmacy?

Engaging in both formal and informal CPD activities can help pharmacists develop the necessary habits of self-directed lifelong learning in order to keep pace with current innovations and ensure the very highest standards of professionalism and patient care.

How do you write CPD?

Here are our five tips to help you write effective reflective statements for CPD.

1. Use the competencies wheel. Your reflective statements need to cover learning activities and personal development.
2. Set aside a specific time to reflect.
3. Think about your everyday work tasks.
4. Reflect on your working week.
5. Take notes.

How do you start a CPD?

Plan. Planning your CPD starts by making an honest assessment of your current situation and determining your professional development goals for both the current year and the medium term e.g. next 2 to 3 years. Because the needs of each individual will vary, there is no prescribed programme.

What is the order of the 4 stages of a CPD cycle?

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a continual process of lifelong learning. It follows the four-stage cycle of reflection, planning, action and evaluation.

What is the difference between PDP and CPD?

Simplistically the key difference between PDP and CPD is the focus; PDP is about how we plan our personal learning in support of our careers and professional development and helps you to plan your CPD, CPD is about our learning but also about the relationship between what we learn, the needs of clinical teams and the …