View from GOC: Healthcare regulators

Earlier this week we joined forces with eight other healthcare regulators to produce a joint statement to promote reflective practice among healthcare professionals. Reflective practice is the process of healthcare professionals reviewing their professional experiences to gain insights about how they can improve the way they work and the care they provide to patients.

We would like all registrants to make reflective practice an important part of their Continuing Education and Training (CET). Eye care professionals can do this using the CET tools we provide, including the personal development plan and templates for reflection statements.

The personal development plan provides eye care professionals with an opportunity to reflect on their scope of practice throughout the CET cycle, set learning goals and write reflection statements following any CET training undertaken. Writing a reflection statement is an important way of capturing learning and identifying how it can be applied in practice.