{"id":4504,"date":"2023-07-17T16:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2023-07-27T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T16:17:46","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-1-119-128","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2017-28-1-119-128\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2017) 28 (1) 119-128"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Assessment of continuing professional development activities among pharmacists in Nigeria<\/b><\/p>

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Ene O. Daniel-Ebune and Arinola E. Joda<\/p>

Pharmacists Council of Nigeria.<\/p>

Plot 7\/9 Idu Industrial Area, Idu, Abuja.<\/p>

2 Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos.<\/p>

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Corresponding author : Ene Daniel-Ebune<\/p>

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Background: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) was developed as formal lifelong learning systems\u00a0with the aim of updating the knowledge and skills of professionals to meet continual challenge of maintaining\u00a0<\/span>competency in practice as professionals. No pharmacy school program can provide all the knowledge, skills\u00a0<\/span>and abilities that will be required during one’s career as a pharmacist, therefore, the need for pharmacists to\u00a0<\/span>engage in CPD.<\/span><\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> The main objectives of this study were to document the CPD activities that pharmacists engage\u00a0in, find out the reasons for engaging in such activities and determine their satisfaction or otherwise with the\u00a0<\/span>activities.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> The research was conducted using pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire, self-administered\u00a0to pharmacists who have participated in at least one module of the PCN-MCPD program. Descriptive analysis\u00a0<\/span>was carried out using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS).<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> The results showed that 63.4% of respondents participated in other CPD activities apart from the\u00a0PCN-MCPD program. Sixty-four percent attend PSN Conferences, 43% attend workplace organized trainings\u00a0<\/span>while 41% attend both the PSN Technical Group Conferences and Healthcare related trainings. Furthermore,\u00a0<\/span>69% of the respondents were satisfied with their CPD activities while 35.4% were satisfied with the PCN-<\/span>MCPD program.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusion:<\/b> Pharmacists participate in CPD activities. However, they are more satisfied with the other CPD\u00a0activities that they engage in than the PCN-MCPD programme. The PCN-MCPD programme should be\u00a0<\/span>restructured to recognize the other CPD activities that pharmacists engage in.<\/span><\/p>

Keywords:<\/b> Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Pharmacists in Nigeria, Mandatory Continuing\u00a0Professional Development (MCPD), Pharmacists Council of Nigeria (PCN), desire to learn.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Assessment of continuing professional development activities among pharmacists in Nigeria \u00a0 Ene O. Daniel-Ebune and Arinola E. Joda Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. Plot 7\/9 Idu Industrial Area, Idu, Abuja. 2 Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos. \u00a0 Corresponding author : Ene Daniel-Ebune Email: onyene2000@gmail.com Phone +2348037003567 ABSTRACT Background: Continuing Professional Development (CPD) was developed as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}