What are the benefits of CPD?

CPD helps health professionals improve their knowledge and skill through continuous learning for better performance in order to provide high “quality” services to their clients.

Who is CPD for?

CPD should be recognized as an integral part of health professionals’ practice for all types of health cadres in all fields of health sciences in Ethiopia. The required Continuing Education Units (CEUs) per professional category can be obtained in “CPD guidelines for health professionals in Ethiopia, FMoH” .

Credit Allocation and Requirements

Continuing Education Unit (CEU), the value attached to a CPD learning activity, is the measurement for credits of a particular course in Ethiopia.

• Professionals in health science fields are required to earn at least 30 CEU per year and 90 CEU per three years to get a re-licensure
• The maximum credit point that can be earned from a single CPD course shall not exceed 15 CEUs
• Credit points should be earned from a particular course only once within a licensure period
• CPD points collected during one budget year cannot be transferred to another year

What is CPD ?  Continuing Professional Development (CPD) refers to all activities professionals undertake formally to maintain, update and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes in response to the service needs of the respective sectors.

Features of CPD

• CPD denotes to the period of education and training of health professionals commencing after completion of basic or postgraduate health professional training.
• CPD is a broad concept referring to the continuing development of the multi-faceted competencies inherent in health services covering wider domains of professionalism needed for high-quality professional performance.
• It aims to maintain and develop competencies of individual health professionals essential for meeting the changing needs of patients and the health service system and responding to the new challenges of emerging/re-emerging health problems and scientific development.

CPD occurs when there is a clearly identified need

The content of CPD courses should be tailored to fill gaps in knowledge, skills, and attitudes, need to be diversified depending on each category of health and other sector professionals nature of practice and may include theoretical knowledge skills, and attitude in the area of professionals’ practice, team building and leadership, communication, professional ethics, teaching, research and administration.

Types of CPD Learning Activities

• Formal (for the time being we focused only on formal learning activities to measure and manage easily)
• Informal

CPD Guiding Principles at ABH partners

1. The mastery learning approach-ABH provides CPD-related training in the realms of health and social development where 100% of the trainees master all the knowledge and skills necessary by providing adequate time, using different training methods, and role modeling and learning by doing.
2. Conducive environment:-ABH’s CPD environment, at its headquarters located near Bole international airport behind the DH Geda building, is conducive to effective learning where physical facilities, skills training equipment, course schedule, and trainers are regularly updated for their appropriateness in providing up-to-date context and situations for CPD.
3. Tailor-made and need-based-ABH develops and organizes tailor-made and need-based training and CPD courses in Public health and clinical medicine, accounting and finance, HR, Business administration, management and leadership
4. Development of training packages- ABH develops a complete package including a reference book, trainer’s manual, and participant handbook for different topics in health and social science fields in English, and other local languages on a need-basis for use in adult-learning principles.