Workshop: Tools to identify your learning needs and make your own personal learning agenda!

Research indicates that traditional CME is not effective in changing performance. Multifaceted interventions are needed to change performance. The progressively growing medical knowledge and changing demands on the society form an ethical obligation for all doctors to update there knowledge and skills, but also to perform in practice according to what they have learned. Traditional CME has to be enriched with assessment of one’s own work and practice performance to identify the real learning needs, a concrete learning plan has to be formed and followed to achieve continuous professional development. A desired change in performance is the objective of any learning process. The EURACT CME/CPD –Committee (Continuing Medical Education/Continuous Professional Development) has developed this model workshop. Participants first identify their learning needs in practice using qualitative tools, make their own learning agenda and develop a concrete plan for learning, reviewed by colleagues. As tools in this workshop we will use consultation diary, self-reflection of competence using position mapping and significant event analysis, As a result of this workshop, the participants will understand some basic concepts of continuing professional development, as planned and peer-reviewed learning agenda based on identified learning needs. They will be able to use the introduced tools and methods in their own practice and in the training of others.