Continuing Professional Development - DPC

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a training scheme initiated by the Hospital, Patients, Health and Territories (HPST) law in 2009 and adapted by the Health System Modernization law in 2016.

Dedicated to French healthcare professionals (as defined in the French Public Health Code, Chapter IV), CPD is a regulated training scheme.

All healthcare professionals must follow a CPD program to fulfill their three-year obligation.

Public

The professions concerned are as follows:

Orderly,
Audioprosthetist,
Medical biologist,
Dental surgeon,
Childcare assistant,
Dietician,
Epithesist,
Occupational therapist,
State-qualified nurse,
Medical electroradiology manipulator,
Physiotherapist,
Physician,
Ocularist,
Optician,
Orthopaedic surgeon,
Speech therapist,
Orthoprosthetist,
Orthoptist,
Chiropodist,
Pharmacist,
Podiatrists,
Pharmacy Preparer,
Hospital pharmacy technician,
Psychomotrician,
Midwife,
Medical laboratory technician.

Objectives

It enables :

to enable healthcare professionals to play an active role in their own training,
encourage inter-professional cooperation and decompartmentalization between different types of practice (town, hospital).

The objectives of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are to:

assessment and improvement of professional practices and risk management,
maintaining and updating knowledge and skills,
taking account of public health priorities (e.g. PAERPA).

Contact

For more information on this scheme, please contact us.