Continuing Professional Development Past, present and future

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Continuing Professional DevelopmentPast,
present and future

• Lorraine Osman
• Vice-President South African Pharmacy Council
• Head of Public Affairs Pharmaceutical Society
  of South Africa
• 9 September 2011

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CPD the past

• HPCSA
• Points system
• Whats the point?
• SAPC
• Investigated alternative system
• The pharmacy profession
• Loved attendance certificates

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CPD the present

• SAPC has
• completed the pilot study
• developed software
• changed the website
• published draft regulations

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CPD the present

• SAPC is busy
• finalising the software
• finalising the regulations
• finalising the guidelines
• preparing for the onslaught
• SANC is busy
• talking to SAPC about its system!

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Lets talk about submissions .

• The PSSA submission to SAPC
• Feedback from
• National Executive Committees
• PSSA
• CPS
• SAAHIP
• Academy
• SAAPI
• Members

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What have I learnt over the years?

• Its not as easy as it sounds!
• Comment is often based on
• limited personal experience
• incomplete knowledge
• People (pharmacists) do not always read all
  documents
• Maybe (just maybe) more information is needed!

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Structure of legislation and control

• Statute
• can only be changed by an Act of Parliament
• Regulations to an Act
• published by the Minister
• developed by statutory council
• Board notice
• published by statutory council
• Rules and guidelines
• published by statutory council

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What is the significance of the layers?

• Most important the ease (or difficulty) and
  time needed for amendments
• So what would you put into
• a statute?
• a regulation?
• a Board notice?
• a rule or guideline?

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Pharmacy legislation and CPD

• Regulations relating to education and training
  approval of courses for purposes of CPD (2000)
• Rules relating to Good Pharmacy Practice (2004)
• Rules relating to Code of Conduct (2008)
• Services for which pharmacists may levy a fee
  (2010)

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SAPC guidelines for CPD

• NB
• This guidance document is not the final document
• It is in the process of being refined
• BUT
• The basic requirements remain the same

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SAPC guidelines for CPD
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SAPC guidelines for CPD

• Introduction
• Why is Continuing Professional Development
  necessary?
• Who must participate in CPD?
• Requirements relating to CPD for persons
  registered with the SAPC
• Assessment of compliance with the requirements
  relating to CPD
• Appeals
• Time frame for implementation of mandatory
  recording of CPD for persons registered with the
  SAPC
• List of Appendices

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The bottom line

• The principles have not changed since I last
  spoke to you!
• The guidelines are in the process of refinement
• Additional rules need to be developed

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Requirements for CPD

• Based on the CPD cycle
• Reflection on practice
• Planning
• Action
• Evaluation of learning
• How is up to you if you need it, make sure
  you get it
• Recording web-based

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How will compliance be assessed?

• Mainly review of CPD activities, within the
  context of the CPD cycle
• What did you need to know?
• How did you decide on what to do?
• What did you do?
• What is your opinion of the impact of the
  learning?

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Assessment criteria
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Portfolio of evidence

• Whatever is relevant!
• Attendance certificates
• Assessment and/or certificates for short courses,
  including distance learning
• Journal articles, read or written
• Minutes of meetings
• Your own detailed written account

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Remember .

• Council is only checking for compliance with very
  simple requirements
• Council is NOT (at this stage!) checking
  competence
• A five year cycle will be used with spot checks
  taken from 20 of pharmacists annually

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Will Council ask for your portfolio of evidence?

• Not necessarily
• May be requested if
• there is no activity in your CPD record
• the entries are inadequate
• Likely to be requested from interns

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Were you paying attention?

• What did I just say?
• Did you hear right?

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Of course you did!

• Interns will be required to submit a portfolio of
  evidence.

• The intern portfolio as we have known it will not
  be used in future
• No longer evidence of competence
• Now a CPD portfolio

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A new concern practising vs non-practising

• If you perform one or more of the activities
  listed in the scope of practice for which you are
  registered, you are practising
• If you have to ask, you probably are practising!
• Practising means that you must participate in CPD

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The register

• There is not going to be a separate register we
  are living in the electronic era!
• Check what the website says now
• you can check if a pharmacist is registered
• it will show if you have supplementary
  qualifications, e.g. PCDT
• There will be an annotation that says
  practising or non-practising

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When does recording become mandatory?

• The guidance document says

Subject to publication of the regulation
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When does assessment begin?

• The guidance document says

1 January 2015
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www.sapc.za.org

• customercare_at_sapc.za.org

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Thank you!