Continuing Professional Development
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Continuing Professional Development is the systematic maintenance, improvement and broadening of knowledge and skills and developing of personal qualities necessary for the execution of professional duties throughout the professional's working life.
Activities contributing to CPD include formalised training courses and less formal educational activities that contribute to the technical or professional experience of the member.
Examples of activities in the access field, which could constitute part of a structured CPD plan include:
- technical and professional conferences, lectures, workshops, seminars and courses
- teaching / tutoring and mentoring
- practice (those in teaching posts)
- writing articles for the technical and professional press
- structured home learning: open and distance learning
- in-house professional study meetings
- research work
- service on relevant committees or working groups
