Quality Control in Continuing Education

Fostering Quality in Continuing Education

This paper presents the quality development initiative set out by Swissuni, the umbrella organisation of the continuing education centres of Swiss universities. It describes how continuing education networks can influence national policies with regard to quality, despite the fact that they may only formulate suggestions for government agencies and for their own members. Swissuni’s strategy rest...

Quality of Continuing Education: a Quebec Example in Teacher Education

Confronted with the diverse problems that university continuing education is facing, our presentation focuses on the continuing education of primary and secondary school teachers which indeed, is experiencing two problems: a decrease in government funding, and a decline in numbers, for university continuing education seems irrelevant for teachers who register in it. We choose to broach the ques...

Continuing education: a quality assurance approach.

In the arena of accountability measures in health care recertIfication mechanisms are bezng evaluated for their cost-effectiveness in occupatzonal therapy. The use of continuing education as one recertification option raises concern about the efficacy of educational activities. One measure of program quality is the continuing educatzon unit. Criteria for its award are delineated. Several method...

Continuing Professional Development in Primary Health Care Quality Development integrated with Continuing Medical Education

Foundations of Continuing Education An Anatomy of Continuing Interprofessional Education

Continuing interprofessional education is the means by which experienced health, social care, and other practitioners learn with, from, and about each other, formally and informally, to improve their collective practice and to cultivate closer collaboration. It applies principles of interprofessional education through media commonly employed in continuing professional education grounded in team...