Continuing Education and Maintaining Professional Competence

Continuing education and maintaining professional competence.

The credentials of new graduates in occupational therapy are determined by the degrees earned, the completion of fieldwork education, and the result of a national certification examination. Professional competence beyond graduation or after entry into the field is not formally or routinely assessed. Maintaining professional competence is a continual process, which combines cognitive knowledge, ...

Maintaining Professional Competence in Innovation Organizations

Public organizations concerned with planning and implementation of developmental activity, education, research and development, as well as private firms delivering professional services and operating in a rapidly changing socio-economic environment are often concerned mainly with innovation, problem solving and learning rather than with the production of any tangible outputs. The income streams...

Maintaining Professional Competence : Approaches to Career

Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons.

Maintaining Vitality: Pharmacists’ Continuing Professional Education Decision-Making in the Upper Midwest

Continuing professional education (CPE) plays an important role in continuing professional development of pharmacists for providing quality pharmaceutical care but also to maintain professional and organizational vitality and meet changing community/population needs. The study objective was to describe and understand factors of importance in selection of CPE credit hours among Upper Midwest pha...