1.3 Demonstrating Personal Qualities - Continuing Personal Development

Doctors show leadership through continuing personal development: learning through participating in continuing professional development and from experience and feedback.

Competent doctors:

  • Actively seek opportunities and challenges for personal learning and development
  • Acknowledge mistakes and treat them as learning opportunities
  • Participate in continuous professional development activities
  • Change their behaviour in the light of feedback and reflection

For more information on how these competences are applied, please click on Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Continuing Practice.