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KMID : 0941820220320040281
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Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
2022 Volume.32 No. 4 p.281 ~ p.287
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Continuing Professional Development of Pharmacists and The Roles of Pharmacy Schools
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Park Hye-Min
Yoon Jeong-Hyun
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Abstract
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Pharmacists should maintain professional competencies to provide optimal pharmaceutical care services to patients, which can beachieved through continued commitment to lifelong learning. Traditionally continuing education (CE) has been widely used as away of lifelong learning for many healthcare professionals. It, however, has several limitations. CE is delivered in the form ofinstructor-led education focused on multiple learners. Learning is passive and reactive for participants, so it sometimes does not leadto bringing behavioral changes in workplace performance. Therefore, recently the concept of lifelong learning tends to move fromCE toward continuing professional development (CPD). CPD is an ongoing process that improves knowledge, skills, andcompetencies throughout a professional’s career. It is a more comprehensive structured approach toward the enhancement ofpersonal competencies. It emphasizes an individual’s learning needs and goals and enables learning to become proactive, conscious,and self-directed. CPD consists of four stages: reflect, plan, learn, and evaluate. CE is one component of CPD. Each stage is recordedin a CPD portfolio. There are many practical difficulties in implementing the complete CPD system for lifelong learning ofpharmacists in many countries including Korea. Applying a hybrid form that utilizes CPD and CE together, as in the case of somecountries, could be an alternative. Furthermore, in undergraduate pharmacy education, it is necessary to teach students about CPDand train them on how to perform CPD as a pharmacist.
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KEYWORD
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continuing professional development, continuing education, pharmacist, competency
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