Continuing professional development (CPD)

Most popular learning and CPD articles of 2015

Practical articles on topics of everyday relevance prove popular in 2015…

How to make the most of your CPD and learning opportunities

Pharmacy professionals have to complete continuing professional development (CPD) activities as a requirement to remain on the pharmacy register. How can they best capitalise on these opportunities for learning?…

Highlights of CPD and learning in 2015

Try our clinical quiz, taken from this year’s learning articles, and check your knowledge of subjects ranging from hormonal contraception to Scarlet fever.…

Helping to support a transforming pharmacy workforce

Following the launch of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s first workforce vision in five years, Catherine Duggan, director of professional development and support, explains to Julia Robinson how the RPS will be providing a ‘one-stop shop’ for supporting the development of the…

Reflecting on practice is an important part of continuing professional development

Clinicians constantly reflect on what they do, but it is important that these thoughts are documented.…

Pharmaceutical Journal Publications’ learning and CPD strategy

On the various article types with a ‘learning element’, and the concept of ‘learning object’ adopted by Pharmaceutical Journal Publications.…

RPS publishes strategy for future pharmacy workforce

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has published a strategy document for the future of the pharmacy workforce, which sets out the objectives of the Society and defines the quality of education required for students, trainees and pharmacists.…

Five-year review of pharmacists’ CPD to be kept for now, says GPhC

The pharmacy regulator has decided to keep to the existing five-year cycle for pharmacists to present evidence of their continuing professional development while it works out what the future “call and recall” system should look like. …

Faculty process is too complex

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has got revalidation and its Faculty raison d’etre wrong. Firstly, revalidation will not demand the level of scrutiny by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) that the RPS Faculty sets. There are three rather tortuous levels to be achieved by the…

Postgraduate education gives pharmacists an edge

Continuing professional development (CPD) is an essential pathway for pharmacists to evolve their knowledge and skills and I welcome initiatives by the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education to provide a variety of postgraduate courses for pharmacists. However, investment in postgraduate t…