Teaching and Continuing Professional Development: an Italian experience
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Giovanni Putoto
Abstract
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a key factor for effective implementation of Clinical Governance. The development of a quality system is, in fact, strictly related to the development of competencies of healthcare professionals. Lifelong learning has emerged as a new paradigm that underlines the need to maintain and continuously improve knowledge, competencies and attitudes in the changing scenario of healthcare systems. CPD accreditation is another fundamental issue and a variety of voluntary and compulsory approaches can be recognised at an international level. The experience of the University Hospital of Padova may be useful to demonstrate that CPD can be addressed to implement a Clinical Governance project.
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- Foreword
- Evidence-based policy-making
- Clinical Governance – from rhetoric to reality?
- Realising the developmental potential of Clinical Governance
- Re-energising Clinical Governance through Integrated Governance
- Clinical Governance: from clinical risk management to continuous quality improvement
- Involvement of patients in Clinical Governance
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- Clinical Governance and Laboratory Medicine: is the Electronic Medical Record our best friend or sworn enemy?
- Technology to improve quality and accountability
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- ISO 15189:2003 – Quality management, evaluation and continual improvement
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