A Personal Development Activity focuses on fostering growth beyond clinical skills by enhancing areas such as communication, leadership, and self-care. This component encourages physicians to engage in reflective practices and targeted development to support overall professional and personal well-being.
Choose Your Data Source for Personal Development
There are several topics in Personal Development that you could consider for your Personal Development activity. Make a decision based on time and availability. This course supports the self-care aspects of Personal Development.
SUPPORT for PPIP: Self-Reflection Tool for Personal Development
Together with Dr. Charles Samuels at the Centre of Sleep and Human Performance, SUPPORT for PPIP has created a module that will guide you through a personal development activity focusing on an important aspect of self care: Sleep. By completing the Better Sleep, Better Practice module, you will generate data and satisfy the requirements for your PPIP Personal Development activity.
Quality improvement methods are processes used to assess data, identify gaps, develop an action plan for change and measure whether those changes produce the desired improvements. For example:
PDSA (Plan Do Study Act)
Lean
Six Sigma
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Model for Improvement
Evidence-based Practice for Improving Quality (EPIQ)
Federation of Medical Regulatory Authorities of Canada (FMRAC) Physician Practice Improvement cycle