Aspetar Healthcare Professions’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program Mission Statement

Aspetar is accredited as a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) provider by the Department of Healthcare Professions (DHP), formerly the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP) of the Ministry of Public Health since June 2016. We were recently re-accredited for five years in December 2021. We are extremely proud of this partnership.

Overall purpose:

The Aspetar Medical Education Department and its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Unit co-create and deliver a Sports Medicine and Science education ecosystem that develops healthcare practitioners’ skills and knowledge through comprehensive, evidence-based, and interprofessional life-long learning. We commit to a Healthcare Professions’ education CPD program that delivers excellence to all stakeholders, aligned to Aspetar’s mission and strategic objectives.

Mission:

The mission of the Aspetar Healthcare Professions’ education CPD program is to:

1. provide comprehensive, evidence-based, and interprofessional education and training grounded in cutting-edge Sports Medicine and Science to healthcare practitioners and stakeholders
2. facilitate the on-going professional development of Aspetar healthcare practitioners:
   1. to improve their role-specific competencies, and
   2. to ensure re-licensing according to the Qatar Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Healthcare Professions - Accreditation Section (DHP-AS) National CPD Framework.
3. maintain Aspetar’s DHP-AS-accredited CPD Provider status
4. manage an effective and efficient CPD activity accreditation process at Aspetar
5. develop and disseminate healthcare professions’ education research.

Audience:

• Aspetar healthcare practitioners
• local, regional, and international healthcare practitioners
• other stakeholders
   

Types of activities offered include:

• synchronous conferences, workshops, symposia, seminars, courses, live webinars, assessment activities, and regularly scheduled educational rounds such as lecture series and journal clubs
• self-directed learning opportunities, including online access to peer reviewed journals and evidence repositories, feedback, and other material for asynchronous learning.

Learning formats are highly interactive, sequenced for learning, and promote retention.

Expected results:

The Aspetar Healthcare Professions’ education CPD program commits to engage stakeholders in co-creating and delivering Sports Medicine and Science CPD activities that are:

• objective and balanced
• free of commercial and other forms of bias
• improving knowledge, skills, performance, and the intention to change practice, and
• promoting retention.

This will ultimately contribute to better patient outcomes.

We continuously evaluate CPD activities according to one or more of Kirkpatrick’s Hierarchy of evaluation domains:

1. satisfaction (do participants respond favorably to the activity?)
2. learning (do participants acquire the intended knowledge, skills, and attitudes?)
3. behavioral change (do participants apply what they learned?), and
4. impact (do the expected outcomes occur?)