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Professional Development Plans
Professional Development Plans
Professional Development Plans (PDP) are a tool to help make sure the CPD we do is relevant and useful.
Why PDPs are Important
PDPs help us think about our lifelong learning, knowledge gaps and learning opportunities;
connect our learning to our practice needs; and
match our increasing skills and knowledge to changes in our practice.
Claim Credit for your PDP
Time spent doing – and reviewing – a PDP counts towards the 50 CPD hours required each year, as a performance measurement activity. Your PDP should not take long to complete and does not need to be a complicated document.
Types of CPD
What does this mean?
12.5 hours
of Educational Activities with Talisium Short Courses
+
12.5 hours
of Free Choice Activities - Talisium Short Courses
=
25 hours
of CPD (minimum) through Talisium
Mandatory CPD Content
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CPD Activities
Educational CPD activities could include:
Individual-focused activities
- reading, viewing, listening to educational material
- active learning modules
- study towards formal qualifications
- supervised practice
Group-focusedactivities
- lectures, forums, panels
- small group sessions
- courses and workshops
Not directly focused on participant’s practice
- teaching, lecturing, examining, assessing and evaluating
- supervising and mentoring
- participating in forums/panels/ educational meetings
- leading/participating in research and publishing or presenting findings
- editing or reviewing research or educational material
- preparing patient education materials
- participating in committees for education or research
- undertaking college/society educational roles
- participating in clinical guideline development
Measuring outcomes activities could include:
Individual-focused activities
- audit focused on participant’s own practice
- root cause analysis
- incident report
- individual quality improvement project
Group-focusedactivities
- audit (practice, national or international)
- M&M meetings, case conferences
- quality improvement project
- multi-disciplinary team meetings
Not directly focused on participant’s practice
- assessing incident reports
- leading, analysing, writing reports on healthcare outcomes
Reviewing performance activities could include:
Individual-focused activities
- professional development plan
- self-evaluation and reflection
- direct observation of practice by colleague
- multi-source feedback
- patient experience survey
- workplace performance appraisal
Group-focusedactivities
- direct observation of practice in team setting
- multi-source feedback
- patient experience survey
- medical services survey/review
- multi-disciplinary team meetings
- peer review group meetings
Not directly focused on participant’s practice
- participating in clinical governance/QA committees
- accrediting/auditing practices, hospitals, training sites
- medico-legal work (report, expert witness)
SPECIALISTS
High-level CPD requirements
Specialist medical colleges can propose ‘high-level requirements’ for CPD that are specialty specific and additional to minimum CPD requirements set by the Board.
Specialist high-level requirements ensure consistency in the CPD programs for medical practitioners with certain specialty/field of specialty practice.
Setting specialist high-level CPD requirements is optional and each specialist medical college decides what, if any, high-level CPD is necessary to maintain safe practice in their relevant specialty.
The specialist high-level requirements for 2023 are below.
Frequently asked questions
I am a specialist and NOT doing my college CPD
- You don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing the self-directed CPD you’ve been doing, which meets the college requirements.
- You can check current requirements here.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
I am a PGY 3+ and am not in a specialist college training program
- You don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing the self-directed CPD you’ve been doing - 50 hours annual CPD including at least one practice-based reflective element.
- You can check current requirements here.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new, accredited CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
I am an intern or PGY2 in a formal training program
- Your CPD is taken care of in your training
- No extra CPD is required.
I am a PGY3+ and am in a specialist college training program
- Your CPD is taken care of in your training
- No extra CPD is required.
I have general registration only (no specialist registration)
- You don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing the self-directed CPD you’ve been doing - 50 hours annual CPD including at least one practice-based reflective element.
- You can check current requirements here.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new, accredited CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
I am an international medical graduate with limited registration in the specialist pathway
- Your college will by your CPD home
- By doing your College CPD program, you automatically meet revised CPD requirements.
I am an international medical graduate with limited registration - NOT in the specialist pathway
- You don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing what you’re doing until January 2024
- Complete the CPD activities agreed in your Board-approved supervision plan and work performance report.
- If the agreed CPD activities total less than 50 hours, top this up so you do a total of 50 hours of CPD each year to meet current standards.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
Note: If you are registered for less than four weeks, you do not need to do CPD.
I am an international medical graduate with provisional registration (not in an accredited intern position)
- You don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing the CPD you’ve been doing
- Complete the CPD activities agreed in your Board-approved supervision plan and work performance report.
- If the agreed CPD activities total less than 50 hours, top this up so you do a total of 50 hours of CPD each year to meet current standards.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
I have more than one specialty
- If you are doing all your colleges’ CPD programs, you automatically meet revised CPD requirements.
- If you are not doing all your colleges’ CPD programs, you don’t need to make a CPD home decision yet.
- Keep doing the self-directed CPD you’ve been doing, which meets all the colleges’ requirements.
- You can check current requirements here.
- In 2022/23, keep an eye out for new CPD homes that offer CPD programs relevant to your scope of practice.
- You will need to join a CPD home by January 2024.
Are there exemptions to meeting the CPD standard
These groups don’t have to do CPD:
- Medical students
- Doctors with non-practising registration
- Doctors with short-term limited registration (less than four weeks)
- Doctors granted CPD exemptions by CPD homes ( e.g due to illness, parental leave etc)
- Interns and PGY2 doctors who are participating in a structured program that leads to a certificate of completion accredited intern programs meet training needs
