Continuous Professional Development
The mission of the CPD-HP (QU Health) program is to ensure the delivery and dissemination of high quality, non-degree, evidence-based educational programs that meet the existing and emerging educational and professional needs of practicing health care professionals in Qatar.
The Continuing Professional Development of Health Professionals (CPD-HP) Program of Qatar University Health reflects the commitment of the three QU colleges (College of Medicine, College of Pharmacy and College of Health Sciences) to the continuing professional development of health professionals in the country. The goal of the CPD-HP (QU Health) Program is to support the lifelong learning of all practicing care providers to ensure optimal patient care. The CPD-HP Program achieves its mandate, in part, through the provision of educational programs that will improve and expand the competency of health professionals, researchers, physicians, dieticians, nutritionists, scientists, nurses, pharmacists and allied professionals involved in healthcare practice.
Initially, the College of Pharmacy at QU was the first accredited CPD program in Qatar in 2011, delivering training to all health care providers. In February 2017, and due to the well-established track record throughout the health care community and to the high quality continuing education to all health practitioners in Qatar, this accreditation has expanded to include the QU Health cluster.
During the accreditation ceremony in May 2017, Dr Samar Aboulsoud, Acting & Chief Executive Officer at the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners (QCHP), said: “Qatar University is the first academic institution in Qatar to vividly translate the concept of inter-professional education, that is embraced in our national CPD accreditation system, into real action for the benefit of health care practitioners and with the ultimate objective of improving patient outcomes.”
QCHP regulates and accredits activities of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) / Continuing Medical Education (CME) (considered as a component of CPD) in the State of Qatar. It monitors such activities to ensure their adequacy, quality and compliance with national and international accreditation standards. The accreditation system for Continuing Professional Development plays an integral part in the license renewal process of health care practitioners in the State of Qatar, hence ensuring competency and quality in health care services, while regulating the health care practice based on evidence and assessment of needs of the Qatari health care system.
Accreditation Decision:
The Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners declares:
“We would like to thank the QATAR UNIVERSITY – HEALTH (AGI-03) for submitting an accreditation application to become the Qatar Council for Health Practitioners – Accreditation Department (QCHP-AD) accredited CPD Provider.
We are pleased to inform you that CPD Accreditation Committee has granted the QATAR UNIVERSITY – HEALTH an accreditation period of 3 years with the option to extend to 5 years.
This accreditation is effective February 28, 2017”.
