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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) refers to all activities health professionals undertake formally to maintain, update and develop their knowledge, skills and attitudes in response to the health service needs of the public (Federal Ministry of Health of Ethiopia).

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 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 2

Types of CPD Learning Activities

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