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Background: There was a recognized need and compelling
arguments for an academic continuing professional development (CPD) unit to provide opportunities and support for practicing healthcare practitioners to fulfil their lifelong learning needs and to promote a culture of improvement, accountability and assessment.
Summary of work: Lifelong Learning (L3) was established October 2015, at the University of Alberta, mandated to undertake Lifelong Learning for healthcare professionals, geared towards changing and optimizing healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
Summary of results: Creating a new scientific foundation for CPD, integrating research methods from all disciplines, generating research directions to understand linkages between CPD and population health, transforming knowledge to improve patient care, promoting development of measurement instruments to evaluate CPD effectiveness, encouraging development of health information technology and fostering inter-professional collaboration.
Discussion: With inclusion now of Physician Learning Program (PLP) under the portfolio of Lifelong Learning, opportunities exist to further develop, collect, analyze and disseminate performance metrics to enhance and align physicians’ learning for quality.
Conclusion: It is time to think of learning as a continuum. Physicians must consider themselves as “lifelong learners of medicine�. Medical education establishments must provide meaningful, relevant opportunities for adult learning that are contextual, in real time, are measurable and improve patient outcomes as well as value and costeffectiveness of CPD.
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Take-home message: CPD entities must endeavour to provide
individualized learning opportunities for all health- care professionals, geared towards changing and optimizing health care quality and patient outcomes. L3 is leading the development of evidence-based educational interventions that use innovative techniques and new enabling technology in order to encourage ethically sound application of knowledge.
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