ANALYSIS OF PROFESSIONAL CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES IN HEALTH CARE

Margarita Puķīte

doi:10.17770/sie2014vol3.713

Authors

Margarita Puķīte Rīga Stradiņš University Red Cross Medical College (LV)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2014vol3.713

Keywords:

health care, professional continuing education

Abstract

Any health care specialist – physician, physician’s assistant,nurse, nurse’s aid, midwife and other professionals of this field have to improve their professional skills, therefore it is important to go on learning to acquire the latest medical ideas and topicalities in the speciality, to get new knowledge, skills and competences. Professional growth and compliance with the respective field are assessed by a certification commission of any association and a certificate awarded which allows to do work in a health care field. The awarded certificate to a health care specialist serves as acknowledgement to one’s knowledge, skills and competences. In order to ease the ways for a specialist to improve knowledge, skills and competences, various courses, seminars and conferences are organized. By participation in these events specialists are awarded continuing education points, which have to be summed up thus giving an opportunity to prolong the the term for the acquired certificate. Themes for continuing education programme are offered specifying particular fields of health care .It allows a specialist to choose those programmes which give a chance to ease the solution of the most topical problems in practice

References

Blank, L., Kimball, H., Mc Donald, W., Merino, J. (2003). Medical professionalism in the new millennium: physician charter 15 months later. Ann Intern Med. 138:839-841.

Blank, L., et all. (2002). Medical professionalism in the new millennium: a physician charter. The Lancet. Volume 359, issue 9305, pp 520-522.

Brennan, T., et all. (2002). Medical professionalism in the new millennium: physician charter. Ann Intern Med. Volume 136, issue 3, pp 243-246.

Commission of the European Communities: "Adult learning: It is never too late to learn". COM (2006). 614 final. Brussels, 23.10.2006.

Department of Education and Science (2000). Learning for Life: White Paper on Adult Education. Dublin: Stationery Office

Davis, D.A., Mazmanian, P.E., Ford M., Van Harrison, R., Thorpe, K.E., Perrier, L. (2006). Accuracy of physician self-assessment compared with observed measures of competence : A systematic review. JAMA , 296:1094-1102

Fischer, G. (2000). Lifelong Learning - More than Training. Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Volume 11 issue 3/4 pp 265-294

Heron, J. (1992). Feeling and personhood. Psychology in another key. London:Sage

Kroplijs, A., Raščevska, M. (2004). Kvalitatīvās pētniecības metodes sociālajās zinātnēs, RaKa, 178