title: Teaching and continuing professional development: an Italian experience.
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.
authors.affiliation: Continuing Professional Development Training Unit, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy. giovanni.putoto@sanita.padova.it
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Putoto
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D007558:Italy; D011787:Quality of Health Care / Q000639:trends*; D013192:Staff Development; D013663:Teaching; D000078329:Workforce