AMEE Update: The Workplace as an Inspiring Social Continuing Professional Development Environment

CE News (10/22) Filipe, Helena; Kostic, Mila

The 2022 Association of Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) Annual Conference hosted a workshop examining the workplace's capacity to encourage continuing professional development. Presenters Helena Filipe, MD, MMEd, at the University of Lisbon and Mila Kostic, CHCP, with the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, USA write that the session "focused on the value of weaving professional networking, potentially enhanced by technology, and creating structured conversations at the workplace as pathways to develop professional development opportunities and creating value to the organization." They contend that workplace-centered learning should consider social channels for developing structured dialogue that yields and proliferates knowledge for practical application. "Peer-to-peer conversations deviate from giving/receiving advice to focus on assimilating the experiences of peers that inspire thinking about one's own experience from a new perspective," Filipe and Kostic write. "Generative questions are the gold standard of learning from experience because they surprise us, engage both heart and spirit, build relationships, and reframe reality." The session also featured "practice talk" opportunities for narrative-based dialogue that progressed toward professional engagement via social learning spaces where colleagues trust and uphold individual views and goals.

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