Continuing professional development (CPD) is learning activity that all responsible medical professionals undertake to keep patients safe and deliver a high standard of care.
Aesthetics is a rapidly evolving, relatively new area of medical practice. CPD is a personally defined experience and ultimately your responsibility to direct and complete. With a plethora of training options, regulatory requirements, as well as the associated cost and time investment required, CPD in aesthetics may seem daunting. Here, we discuss CPD in more detail.
CPD is defined as ‘the process of lifelong uninterrupted learning and self-improvement for individuals and teams, which enable medical professionals to expand and fulfil their potential in maintaining a high medical standard and an ever-improving quality of care that meets the need of patients’.1 Apart from new learning, it may also reinforce and maintain existing good practice. Going beyond traditional continuing medical education (CME), it incorporates knowledge and practical skills, as well as broader concepts of…
