Continuing Professional Development (CPD), learning, teaching
and training (9)
9.1 Demonstrating a commitment to lifelong
learner-centred higher professional education (HPE) and CPD
through, for example, personal learning and development plans
9.2 Demonstrating a commitment to keeping up
to date with evolving knowledge, news and thinking
9.3 Fostering skills of self-awareness and
self-appraisal necessary to identify one’s own strengths,
weaknesses and learning needs
9.4 Participating willingly and with candour
in regular mentoring or appraisal
9.5 Offering non-judgmental feedback and
advice to colleagues as part of their professional
development
9.6 Using self-assessment and formal
appraisal as a prelude to acquiring explicit competencies and
skills
9.7 Possessing the skills and commitment to
formulate practice development programmes
9.8 Undertaking teaching in its widest sense,
including the education of patients, doctors in training and
colleagues
9.9 Ensuring that patients have genuine
choice over whether or not to participate in the education of
students or doctors in training, and that their care is not thereby
jeopardised
9.10 Understanding the interdependence of
clinical practice, organisation, information management, research,
education and professional development