Transcript How to be a good professional? Existentialist continuing

Professor Rachel Mulvey
How to be a good
professional?
Existentialist CPD.
The CPD triad
employer
Professional
body
practitioner
CPD as moral duty
• Because ethical practice is about doing
the right thing
• And about making defensible choices in
your professional practice
• And about being the kind of professional
you want to be
Existentialist CPD
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How did I get into this?
Where am I going?
Is CPD minimum requirements activity, or
Opportunity for life-long learning,
challenge and growth?
Cooper, B. (2010)
Competence: proven ability, catch all for what
helps to do a job well, or to get a job done
• Skill:
• Technique that
contributes to a
capacity to do
something well
• Usually learned or
acquired
• Knowledge:
• Outcome of
assimilation of
information through
learning
Knowledge can be
• Propositional: knowing that (savoir)
• Practical: knowing how (savoir faire)
• Procedural:
knowing how to be (savoir être)
Junior Doctors, Episode 4.
BBC Three, 15/3/11, 21h.
“It’s fine with like staff. I do wish I looked a
bit older with patients sometimes. I do
feel they don’t take me seriously. And
they never think I’m the doctor, ever. In
fact I go in and say ‘I’m Suzi, I’m one of
the doctors’. It’s my opening line for
every patient” [Suzi, aged 24, F1]
• Kier: “I wouldn’t even do that. I’d say:
My name is Dr Batchelor”
• Suzi: “But that’s just like, not me
though.” (emphasis added)
Mid-career learning is
where CPD takes place
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Doing things at work
Seeking learning opportunities
Meeting challenges at work
Feeling supported
Confidence and mastery are key
Eraut (2008)
Permitting existentialist CPD
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Not acting but inhabiting the role
Noticing: actions and feelings
Adjusting to my new identity
Allowing myself to become
Being the professional I want to be