CPD Worldwide
CPD and World Health
SWME advocates for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as a capacity building tool, which connects doctors in developing countries to the training they need to meet local health care challenges, benefit from advancements in global medicine and triumph over barriers to quality medical education in their home countries.
Unfortunately, many of the world’s poorest countries still lack the proper facilities and resources needed to adequately train their medical professionals. The SWME seeks to bridge this gap by creating spaces for doctors from both developed and developing medical communities to come together, exchange information, share best practices and enhance their performance.
Many non-government organizations send medical professionals from the U.S. and Europe into the field to. SWME brings local doctors from the field to major medical association courses and meetings, so that they may have equal access to critical sources of knowledge and training.
Why Advocate for CPD?
Advance Global Health
- CPD improves the quality of healthcare delivery and healthcare systems worldwide
- CPD promotes local, regional, national and global public outreach to raise awareness about the prevention, assessment, and management of diseases
- CPD lays the groundwork for the development of worldwide standards for health care and medical education
Encourage Professional Development and Improve Patient Care
- CPD increases doctors’ knowledge and improves their professional skills, enabling them to achieve better outcomes for their patients
- CPD encourages doctors to assess their skills and performance on an ongoing basis
- CPD helps health care providers identify educational and practice gaps in clinical care and encourages the development of educational programs to bridge those gaps
- CPD emphasizes the importance of maintaining medical certifications and licensure, and encourages governments to enforce requirements and standards
Promote Medical Education
- CPD promotes academic research and scholarship in medical education
- CPD takes a comprehensive approach to education within a health care system, incorporating faculty and staff training on topics such as teamwork and communication, research ethics, practice improvement, administration.
- CPD supports medical schools working to assimilate and train new faculty members
