Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions

Introduction: Supervising in the workplace plays a key role in increasing the skills of the trainee. The shift to competence-based medical education requires both clinical expertise and pedagogical skills from the supervisor. These are distinct types of expertise. We know only a little of how compet…

Introduction: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…

In this article, we examine assessment as conceptualized and enacted in continuing professional development (CPD). Assessment is pervasive throughout the life of an individual health professional, serving many different purposes compounded by varied and unique contexts, each with their own drivers a…