Bishoftu General Hospital

Mr. Tadesse Watse, CPD Director

About CPD

Health professionals must maintain, update and enhance their knowledge, skills, and attitude to adequately deliver quality health care. This is particularly important due to a changing disease pattern in which diseases that had been eradicated are now reemerging, as well as an increase in non-communicable diseases. There is a need for CPD to maintain professional competence in an environment of numerous challenges, rapid organizational changes, information technology, increasing public expectations, and demand for quality and greater accountability.

Currently, CPD activities in Ethiopia are fragmented as there are no standardization, regulation, and accreditation mechanisms. Besides, CPD activities have never been linked to the re-licensure of health professionals. Hence, the Ministry of Health believes that CPD should be systematically organized, tied to the relicensing system, and occur in concerted with other developments in the healthcare system to improve the quality of health services.

Finally, in the implementation of different initiatives and reforms, Bishoftu General Hospital is the most known Hospital at both the regional and national levels that goes to the climax of winning different rewards and recognitions from different bodies on different packages. Health education-related activities were carried out in the Hospital through the IPPS team prior to the establishment of the CPD - training center then after the establishment of the CPD training center all these activities are included and conducted through the CPD center in collaboration with the government and nongovernmental organization.

Our CPD - the center is providing training on

Maternal and Child Health,
Emergency and rehabilitation,
PHCU,
PHEM,
Hospital reform,
TB,
HIV,
Laboratory,
Pharmaceutical
Leadership and Governance
Nursing and Midwifery care service
Quality
Dease prevention and other training.

We are committed to providing an educational environment that fosters the continuing professional development of all its audience through diverse learning opportunities that promote their skills as well as facilitating opportunities for self-directed assessment and learning, to ultimately enhance patient care.
The CPD center has its own coordination office, two well-equipped training halls, one meeting hall, and a well-functioned cafeteria. In one well-equipped Clinical Skill lab, there is one Director, a focal person, one secretary, one IT professional, and more than 75 trainers at the CPD - center. The involvement of high-quality and experienced health professionals and some other positively influencing factors make us the best well-organized CPD- Center. So currently we are running different training in which many unexpected building ideas from the trainer, trainee, and governmental body is given to us.

Vision

To enhance practice improvement through innovative, practical, and evidence-informed continuing professional development leading to better healthcare outcomes. “Enhancing healthcare through CPD”

Mission

Our mission is to provide challenging and innovative interprofessional educational opportunities, to meet the learning needs of healthcare practitioners in our region, and to promote evidence-informed, cost-effective, collaborative, patient-centered healthcare.

Enable and support the effective lifelong learning of physicians, medical educators and scientists, and other healthcare professionals by:

Addressing professional practice learning and performance needs
Promoting self-directed learning with a competency-based framework
Integrating best evidence
Integrating patient perspective
Promoting scholarship and research
Incorporating appropriate educational technologies
Embracing social accountability by integrating the needs of our diverse stakeholders and communities
Recognizing the bilingual character of our community