Continuing Professional Development

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Continuing Professional Development

• 6 May 2009

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Overview

• Royal Australian College of General
  Practitioneres triennium 2008-2010
• Minimum 130 Continuing Professional Development
  (CPD) points
• Category 1 and Category 2 activities
• Includes a minimum of two Category 1 activities
• Category 1
• Most activities 40 points
• Category 2
• 2 points per hour

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Overview (2)

• Activities developed by accredited (C1 C2) or
  endorsed providers (C2 only)
• Patient safety learning objective (new)
• GPs can self report points for some C2 activities
  (new)
• Education providers need to report attendance and
  evaluation results to RACGP for activities they
  run

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Category 1 activities

• 40 points per activity
• Active Learning Module (ALM)
• Clinical audit
• Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) journal club (new)
• Rapid Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycle (new)
• Small group learning (SGL)
• Supervised clinical attachment

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ALM

• Minimum of 6 hours of structured learning
  activity
• At least 2/3 interactive, e.g. role plays, case
  studies, small group discussion, etc
• Pre-disposing (prior to intervention) and
  reinforcing (after intervention) activities

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Category 2 activities

• 2 points/hour
• Seminars, lectures, etc
• Usually 1-2 hour meetings
• Notifications by providers to RACGP
• Self-reporting for GPs who attend