PMLS MT101 - Continuing Professional Development (LESSON 10)

Lifelong learning

to maintain competence, enhance professional skills, and keep pace with rapid advancements in healthcare science and technology.

Lifelong learning

the continuous, voluntary, and self-directed pursuit of knowledge, skills, and professional competencies from graduation until retirement. It extends beyond formal education and includes professional training, seminars, workshops, conferences, research activities, self-study, and other educational experiences.

ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF)

regional framework developed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to facilitate the comparison of educational qualifications among ASEAN Member States (AMS)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

The ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF) is a regional framework developed by the ____________ to facilitate the comparison of educational qualifications among ASEAN Member States (AMS).

ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF)

a common reference that promotes transparency, comparability, and mutual recognition of qualifications across the region

ASEAN Qualifications Reference Framework (AQRF)

- Establish a common reference framework for comparing qualifications

- Promote transparency and mutual understanding of national qualifications systems.

- Support the recognition of qualifications to improve professional and workforce mobility

- Encourage lifelong learning by providing flexible pathways for education, training, and career advancement.

- Enhance the quality, relevance, and international competitiveness of education and professional qualifications throughout the ASEAN region.

Continuing Professional Development

- Ensures the competency of professionals

- Extension of knowledge, expertise and competence

- Longest phase of professional education

- Provides a structured framework to ensure improvement, progression, and career growth.

- The development of one's knowledge, skills, and attitude significantly relevant to capability and competency of a professional.

Continuing Professional Education

- A training that is linear and formal

- Focuses in learning a particular skill or set of skills to improve professional competence.

Benefits of CPD - Individual

- Builds confidence and credibility

- Showcases Achievements; useful for appraises

- Achieves career goals by focusing on training and development.

- Copes positively with changes by constantly updating knowledge and skill.

- Improves productivity and efficiency by reflecting learning and highlighting the gaps in knowledge and expertise.

Benefits of CPD - Organization

- Maximizes staff potential

- Helps employees to set SMART (specific, measurable, realistic, and time-bound) objectives

- Promotes staff development

- Add value for reflecting; helps staff to consciously apply learning to their role and for the organization's development

- Linking to appraisals; helps employees focus their achievements throughout the years.

Executive Order No. 266

Executive Order of Continuing Professional Development

Issued: July 25, 1995 Effective Date: November 13, 1995

Issued and Effective date of Executive Order No. 266

Executive Order No. 266; President Fidel V. Ramos

_______ signed by former __________, institutionalized the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs for regulated professions under the supervision of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

Continuing Professional Development

- Institutionalized the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs of the various Professional Regulatory Boards (PRBs) under the PRC.

- Prepared Filipino professionals to remain competitive in an increasingly globalized workforce.

- Required registered professionals to earn 60 CPE credit units as one of the requirements for the renewal of their Professional Identification Card (PIC).

- Promoted continuous professional growth through organized educational and training activities.

RA 10912 (Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016)

Republic act of the Continuing Professional Development

Approved: July 21, 2016 Effective Date: August 16, 2016 Implementation Began: March 15, 2017

RA 10912 (Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016) was approved, effective, and implemented when?

RA 10912 (Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016)

strengthened the country's Continuing Professional Development system by making lifelong learning an integral component of professional practice.

RA 10912 (Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016)

- Strengthened the implementation of CPD programs for all PRC-regulated professions.

-Created a CPD Council for every regulated profession to oversee the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of CPD activities.

- Ensured that Filipino professionals continuously improve their competence in accordance with national and international standards of professional practice.

- Promoted lifelong learning as a fundamental responsibility of every licensed professional.

Lifelong Learning

Learning activities undertaken throughout life for the continuous development of professional's competencies, knowledge, skills, and qualifications.

Continuing Professional Development

The acquisition and enhancement of advanced knowledge, technical skills, professional competence, and ethical values through post-licensure education, specialization, interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary learning, self-directed research, and other lifelong learning activities that are integrated into professional practice.

1. Continuously enhance professional competence

2. Promote lifelong learning

3. Ensure the quality and relevance of CPD programs

CPD aims to:

CPD Council

the body responsible for managing and supervising the Continuing Professional Development program for each regulated profession.

CPD Council

- Developing policies, standards, and guidelines for the implementation of CPD programs.

- Evaluating, accrediting, and monitoring CPD providers and learning activities.

- Ensuring that CPD programs meet established educational and professional standards.

- Recommending policies that promote continuous professional growth and lifelong learning.

- Monitoring compliance with CPD requirements for professional license renewal.

Chairperson, First Member, Second Member

The CPD Council is composed of:

Chairperson

A member of the Professional Regulatory Board (PRB) of the profession.

First Member

A representative nominated by the Accredited Integrated Professional Organization (AIPO).

Second Member

A representative from the academe or another qualified sector with expertise in the profession

MT First Member

President of the PAMET

MT Second Member

President of the PASMETH

CPD Council

ensures that Continuing Professional Development programs remain relevant, accessible, and responsive to the evolving needs of professionals and society.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

a requirement for the renewal of the Professional Identification Card (PIC) of all registered and licensed professionals regulated by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

Professional Identification Card (PIC)

CPD isa requirement for the renewal of the__________ of all registered and licensed professionals regulated by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC)

15 CPD credit units every three (3) years

Current minimum requirement for professional identification license renewal

45 CPD credit units within a three-year renewal period (equivalent to an average of 15 units per year)

previous minimum requirement for professional identification license renewal

Structured Learning Activities, Non-structured Learning Activities

Enumerate the types of CPD Programs

Structured learning activities

such as seminars, conferences, workshops, training programs, certificate courses, and formal academic studies

Non-structured learning activities

including self-directed learning, authorship of publications, research, professional presentations, online learning, and other educational activities with clearly defined learning objectives and outcomes.

CPD Activities

have measurable learning processes and intended learning outcomes that contribute to the continuous professional growth of licensed practitioners.

CPD Challenges

- Limited access to CPD opportunities

- Time constraints

- Financial Limitations

- Need for greater government support