How can organisations of family medicine work together to develop internet based resources for suppo

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1952-2002
Workshop Presentation by RCGP and St Georges
Hospital Medical School, London

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Authors

• Mayur Lakhani RCGP
• Simon de Lusignan St Georges Medical School
• Gil Richardson RCGP
• Sally Wells St Georges Medical School
• Adrian Brown St Georges Medical School

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Web-based CPD and Quality Improvement
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Introduction

• Many organisations are offering web-based CPD
  services - enormous expansion
• What is the quality of experience? What do you
  find?
• Does it meet your needs?
• Support clinical and professional practice
• What should family medicine organisations offer?
  And is there a potential for collaboration

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Context

• Regulation/accountability
• Revalidation and clinical governance
• More effective learning outcomes
• Emphasis on performance measurement (audit and
  peer review)
• Appraisal
• portfolio verification and recording

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Some questions

• Should there be a register of on-line resources
  for CPD across WONCA?
• How can we improve access to the internet?
• Development of informatics as a career
• Core content
• Can standards be shared across national
  boundaries
• How can benchmarking of performance with
  feedback be included?

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Purpose

• Define the key issues
• Identify examples of good practice and barriers
• Generate some principles
• Develop and explore a model of on-line
  resources that support CPD and QI in Family
  medicine

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Framework

• Questionnaire
• Group work
• Presentation of some examples
• Products
• Discussion forum
• Summary and statement

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Group work

• 1. Collaboration and ground rules (Mayur)
• 2. Role of informatics (Simon)
• 3. Content (Gil)

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• How can organisations of family medicine work
  together to develop internet based resources for
  supporting CPD and quality improvement?

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Schedule

• 1145 1215
• 5 minutes intro, 20-25 min presentation
• 1215 to 1245 group work
• 1245-1300 feedback and plenary
• conclusion