ASHP's continuing education activities can help you increase your knowledge and improve your skills. As you identify your own professional needs and create your individualized CPD plan, ASHP can be a vital partner in helping you achieve your professional goals. Whether you're participating in a live meeting or webinar or one of our self-study CE activities, you won't just be getting CE, you'll be immersing yourself in the kind of meaningful learning that can truly improve patient care.
We support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in their efforts to maintain and enhance their competencies in order to provide patient care that ensures optimal medication therapy outcomes. For more information about ASHP's activities to support practitioners interested in the CPD approach, please contact our Educational Services Division at educserv@ashp.org.
In June 2004, ASHP's House of Delegates approved the following professional policy on Continuing Professional Development:
To endorse the concept of continuing professional development (CPD), which involves personal self-appraisal, educational plan development, plan implementation, documentation, and evaluation; further, to strongly encourage the development of a variety of mechanisms and tools that pharmacists can use to assess their CPD needs; further, to support the efforts of individual pharmacists to understand CPD (including the fact that various options are available for self-assessment) and to implement CPD; further, to collaborate with other pharmacy organizations in the development of effective strategies for piloting the implementation of CPD; further, to strongly support objective assessment of the outcomes of implementation of CPD; further, to encourage colleges of pharmacy and accredited pharmacy residency programs to teach the principles, concepts, and skills of CPD.
*CPD definition: Continuing Professional Development is the lifelong process of active participation in learning activities that assists individuals in developing and maintaining continuing competence, enhancing their professional practice, and supporting achievement of their career goals.