SACME Virtual Journal Club March 2025

Session Overview

Join us for this interesting session, the final one in the series we have been hosting with a number of authors who contributed publications to the recent Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions (JCEHP) supplement themed “Conceptual Advances in Continuing Professional Development in the Health Professions.” We will have an opportunity to hold conversations with scholars in our field who are examining and challenging some of the prevailing assumptions and proposing new empirical and theoretical insights.

During this session, the presenting authors will critically analyze and reframe existing literature on assessment in continuing professional development (CPD) through the lens of the health professional as a person. This perspective encourages a reconsideration of the fundamental educational purpose of CPD. Assessment will be presented as a key strategy to actively engage health professionals in their personal journey of lifelong learning and professional growth.

Specifically, they will aim to:

1. Define the core educational purpose of CPD and its role in fostering lifelong learning among health professionals.

2. Evaluate the impact of adopting a person-focused approach to CPD.

3. Analyze how assessment practices must be reframed to engage health professionals in sustained educational growth.

As always, we welcome your thoughts and perspectives and hope to see you engaged in our VJC.

Presenters

Helen Toews, MSc RD, PhD student 

Wilson Centre for Health Profession Education Research

University of Toronto

Walter Tavares, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Health and Society

Wilson Centre for Health Profession Education Research

University of Toronto

Host & Facilitator

Mila Kostic, CHCP, FACEHP

Primary Reference and Pre-Reading

Toews H, Pearce J, Tavares W. Recasting Assessment in Continuing Professional Development as a Person-Focused Activity. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2023 Fall;43(4S):S35-S40. doi: 10.1097/CEH.0000000000000538. PMID: 38054490.

https://journals.lww.com/jcehp/fulltext/2023/04341/recasting_assessment_in_continuing_professional.6.aspx

Additional Recommended Reading

Biesta GJJ, van Braak M. Beyond the Medical Model: Thinking Differently about Medical Education and Medical Education Research. Teach Learn Med. 2020 Aug-Sep;32(4):449-456. doi: 10.1080/10401334.2020.1798240. Epub 2020 Aug 15. PMID: 32799696.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10401334.2020.1798240?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org 

Billett, S. (2022). Learning in and Through Work: Positioning the Individual . In: Harteis, C., Gijbels, D., Kyndt, E. (eds) Research Approaches on Workplace Learning. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89582-2_7