Abstract
The ‘Enhancing Hospital Laboratory Standards for Continuing Professional Development: A Quality Improvement Toolkit’ project, which was funded by the European Union’s Lifelong Learning Leonardo Program, has successfully developed several novel continuing professional development (CPD) activities for use by Biomedical Scientists within European hospital laboratories. This paper reports on transnational evaluation of the third European CPD activity which is based on the pre-analytical phase, by hospital laboratories in Croatia, Czech Republic, Malta and the United Kingdom.
Highlights
While a wide variety of different types of activities including work based learning, professional activity, formal/educational and self-directed learning [1], are appropriate for inclusion in a Biomedical Scientists continuing professional development (CPD) portfolio, for many Biomedical Scientists, CPD has mostly focussed on individual activities
This paper is one of a series of studies which report on transnational evaluation of each of the novel CPD activities which were developed as part of the tangible outputs of the project
Both the first CPD activity which was developed by the UK [5] and the second CPD activity which was developed by Croatia [6] have already received very positive transnational evaluation
Summary
While a wide variety of different types of activities including work based learning, professional activity, formal/educational and self-directed learning [1], are appropriate for inclusion in a Biomedical Scientists continuing professional development (CPD) portfolio, for many Biomedical Scientists, CPD has mostly focussed on individual activities. The benefit of collegial interaction as a method of CPD has previously been highlighted in the healthcare arena where a group of general surgeons clinical expertise was enhanced by discussions with colleagues via videoconferencing [3]. This project sought to have CPD activites carried out by mutli-disciplinary groups of Biomedical Scientists in their own countries and to follow this up with interaction with the newly developed European Biomedical Scientist CPD Providers Community of Practice. Partners carried out pilot trials [5, 6] of the new CPD activities in their own organisations with every pilot trial including evaluation by both trainees and trainers in partner countries
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