What do we mean by CPD?
“Registered and student clinical members should regularly monitor and evaluate their clinical skills and actively extend their knowledge base and their own personal development through continuing professional development.” The Society of Homeopaths’ Code of Ethics and Practice, Paragraph 17
CPD occurs every time you learn anything of relevance to your homeopathic work. For example, it happens when you see a patient, work on a case, make sense of the outcomes of your treatment in a follow up, reflect on what occurred in your interaction with a patient or participate in a proving. It happens when you consider how to manage and grow your practice, design your information leaflets or website, manage yourself in relation to your practice or consider your effectiveness as a practitioner.
Learning with others, formally or informally, plays an important part in this process. This requires an investment of time but it doesn’t necessarily have to cost much. Whatever you do – participate in peer-group supervision, research a remedy for yourself, take a regular yoga class or attend a seminar – the test for whether it counts as CPD lies in how useful and relevant it becomes to how you practise and whether it helps you improve your effectiveness as a practitioner.
And remember, what you learn in the context of clinical practice not only contributes to your own professional development, you may also be able to make a contribution to the profession as a whole when sharing your findings with a wider audience (e.g. in a Society publication or at a CPD day).
The new programme of workshops is now available: click here
The aim the Society of Homeopath’s CPD Department is to foster a culture in which CPD is seen as an essential part of being a professional homeopath and to develop, facilitate and promote a wide range of opportunities to support members in their CPD.
Registration Induction Days for Newly Registered Members
The Society’s system of registration through continuing professional development provides a framework within which practitioners can establish and develop their practice. The Induction Days involve activities specifically designed to support you in understanding how best to benefit from the registration process and help you in the production of your initial CPD plan.
For Newly Registered Members, the cost of the introductory workshop is included in the application package.
The new programme of workshops is now available: click here
To view a list of events that can be booked online: click here