Aug 13, 2024
Continuing education (CE) activities may affect clinicians’ knowledge, skills, self-efficacy, and/or performance. Studies have suggested that self-efficacy may moderate or mediate the relationship between knowledge/competence and performance. Some results have shown that increases in knowledge/competence contributed...
Jul 12, 2024
In continuing professional development (CPD), educators face the need to develop and implement innovative assessment strategies to adhere to accreditation standards and support lifelong learning. However, little is known about the development and validation of these assessment practices. We aimed to document the...
May 31, 2024
This article examines the development and key recommendations embedded in a CE Educator’s toolkit created to evolve CPD practice and foster a learning experience that promotes self-awareness, self-reflection, competency, and behavioral change. The toolkit highlighted three intervention formats: facilitation of small...
May 21, 2024
This novel study of physician certification suggests that the accuracy of physician performance increases with higher stakes, even as self-reported confidence in their knowledge declines. It suggests that physicians may be more engaged in higher-stakes compared with lower-stakes assessments. With medical...
Apr 19, 2024
In this supplement, scholars were invited to examine continuing professional development (CPD) in the health professions critically and innovatively as a means of stimulating the field. The objective of the invitation was to promote intellectual space to question existing ideas that may be widely accepted, but in need...