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Reasons Behind the Island Farmacy CPD program

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Put a plan in place to prevent healthcare professionals from deskilling and stagnating without ongoing professional development."

 

If you take care of your people , your business is more likely to succeed. That is the ethos behind Island Farmacy's push to ensure you and your employees have a plan of action to keep them moving forward in their careers.

The challenge is to keep everyone motivated, and a CPD plan is one of the most important tools for doing so. One of the most significant investments is in your employees' well-being and development. It should be ingrained in your culture.

 

Together, we develop, together, we grow.

Strengthen

I’ve always promoted the importance of CPD, but when the General Pharmacy Council confirmed that ongoing training would become a regulatory requirement for all pharmacy professionals, it became clear to me that we had a bigger task on our hands.

Thinking beyond the 30 people i coach ( or so) , I wanted to provide everyone with a CPD facility to encourage and track their personal learning and development progress. That’s when I turned to developing bespoke CPD modules.

The Island Pharmacy is an evolution of this in Mauritius. I already knew that the CPD platform was modern, functional and could help take Mauritius pharmacy professionals to the next level. The Pharmacy Council's approval gave all 600 or so colleagues access to this CPD portal, as well as professional recognition and a wide range of additional benefits.


Because of its user-friendliness, the Island Farmacy CPD platform is a popular option. If you sign up for and finish a continuing education course, for instance, the necessary paperwork will be taken care of for you. All you have to do is log in, complete an activity, and submit an assessment to have your CPD points sent automatically to the Pharmacy Council at the end of each calendar month.

 

It is possible and likely that the system's "seminar" or "webinar" courses will help people remember information and get used to new ways of doing things. Additional 'impact' credits are awarded, similar to 'learning,' if it can be shown that behaviour has changed, and the CPD total can improve further if the changes have a positive impact on routine procedures. All of this information can be recorded easily through the portal, and supplementary materials like learning logs and certificates can be uploaded in under two minutes.

Closing the Loop

For a long time, it has been hard for businesses and regulatory bodies to figure out how to measure the effectiveness of training to figure out a return on investment. It's not always the training itself that is ineffective; rather, it's the lack of follow-up on trainees' progress that causes many companies to fail. Our review of visual demonstrations, reflective practices, and online assessment all work together in a closed-loop model to make sure that knowledge is really learned.

 

For a long time, it has been hard for businesses and regulatory bodies to figure out how to measure the effectiveness of training to figure out a return on investment and set standards. It's not always the training itself that is ineffective; rather, it's the lack of follow-up on trainees' progress that causes many companies to fail. The combination of visual demonstrations, reflective practices, and online assessment in a closed-loop model guarantees that knowledge is truly internalized.

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