documenting cpd

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Documenting CPD

Mark Williams

Learning Club

15 November 2006


Objectives

• To provide a summary of CPD and requirements for physiotherapists

• To promote CPD in the CTU

• To signpost resources available for facilitation of CPD

• To practise using resources provided for CPD


What is CPD?

• “CPD is a systematic, ongoing structured process of maintaining, developing and enhancing skills, knowledge and competence both professionally and personally in order to improve performance at work.” (CSP, 2003)


What is CPD?

• “a range of learning activities through which professionals maintain and develop throughout their career to ensure they retain their capacity to practise safely, effectively and legally within their evolving scope of practise.” (HPC CPD definition, 2004)


Why do we need to do CPD?

• “All practising professionals want to develop their careers and strive for excellence. Quality, accountability and effective practice demand that you as a professional demonstrate that you are keeping abreast of new knowledge, techniques and developments related to your practice.”


Factors affecting the CPD Agenda:

• Professional: Role development, specialisation, autonomy, self-regulation, Rule 1/Code 1 of Code of Conduct, Continued HPC registration, standards of practice, accreditation of clinical educator’s scheme

• Organisational: Service delivery demands, role redesign/skill mix, competency frameworks, appraisal

• Political: Health Act 1999, Quality in the NHS, Clinical Governance, The NHS Plan, Agenda for Change and the Knowledge and Skills Framework

• Related areas: EBP, Audit, Clinical effectiveness, outcome measures, NSF’s, national competence frameworks


Who do we do it for? CSP Requirements

• CPD is obligatory through the CSP Rules of Professional Conduct and Code of conduct. Rule 1 and Code 1 state that members should maintain and develop their ability to work safely and competently within their scope of practise.

• The CSP expects the establishment and maintenance of a portfolio of learning.


Who do we do it for? HPC Requirements

• The HPC CPD standards took effect from 1 July 2006.

• First audit of profiles is to take place in 2008 (Don’t worry it’s for feet people!).

• Physiotherapists audited prior to renewing their registration in April 2010

• Expected to comply with the standards from their introduction.


HPC Standards

1. Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate record of CPD activity

2. Demonstrate CPD activities are a mixture of learning activities

3. Ensure CPD contributes to quality of practice and service delivery

4. Seek to ensure CPD benefits service user

5. Present a written CPD profile upon request


Who do we do it for? CTU Requirements

• To comply with MRC GCP and ICH GCP, all members of staff must maintain a complete record of their ongoing personal development to demonstrate that they are competent to perform duties appropriate to their role in each trial.


Who do we do it for? Yourself

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Who is responsible for ensuring CPD is being conducted?

• CPD is based on individual responsibility, trust and self-evaluation

• However, employers do have a responsibility to support you with your CPD


Benefits of CPD

• Confident because you have the evidence to show that you can practice effectively.

• Capable because your CPD skills equip you to meet the changing demands of practice

• Competent because you have an up to date knowledge and skills base


How do I conduct CPD? • Follow the CPD learning process in a

structured way • Undertake CPD activities appropriate to

meeting identified learning needs • Capture your learning from these

activities in an appropriate way and store it in a portfolio of evidence

• Consider how what you have learned will impact on your practice


How do I conduct CPD?

• Link your development into your appraisal and personal development process

• Discuss with relevant colleagues what learning needs you have and what appropriate CPD activities are available to you to meet them.

• Employers can give advice and guidance.


The CPD Process


What is a CPD portfolio?

• This is a private collection of evidence that demonstrates learning and development as well as a tool for planning future learning.

• It is more than a folder with some certificates in!


What is the difference between a CPD portfolio and a profile?

• A profile is a public collection of evidence which is selected and extracted from your portfolio for a particular purpose and to present to a particular audience e.g. the HPC, prospective employer or higher education institution for accreditation.


HPC Profile• Profiles for HPC re-registration should consist of:• Front cover• Contents page• Summary of recent work/practice for the last 2

years (max 500 words)• Documentary evidence provided by the

registrant to support statements about CPD made in the profile (max 1500 words).

• See example for clinical specialist


How do I make a CPD portfolio?

• Get a folder!• Decide what CPD activities and evidence you

want to include in your portfolio• ? Section1 – Personal Information• ? Section 2 – Personal development plan• ? Section 3 – Professional Development: Current

Activities• ? Section 4 – Professional Development:

Evaluation and Reflection• ? Section 5 - Storage


What about my CTU Personal Development Folder?

• Congruous to your CPD portfolio.• The purpose is to demonstrate you are

competent to perform the duties appropriate to your role in the CTU.

• Needs to be continually updated.• Recommendation that you maintain a log of

internal and external training in your CTU PD folder.

• Appraisal and evaluation documents will be kept separately as these are personal documents.


When do I start my CPD portfolio?

• If not already, TODAY!

• No value in trying to recall incidental or informal training from the past – move forward

• Acceptable to just include proof of previous formal training e.g. certificates and then start documenting the complete CPD process from now.


Section 1 – Personal InformationTips for updating your CV

• CSP CV Proforma is suitable for your portfolio/PD folder but not for applications

• It is not meant to tell the reader everything you have done since you qualified!

• Guide through the most relevant aspects of your academic, working and personal life

• Careers Service Guide and web: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/staff/crs/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/staff/crs/

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/staff/crs/


Section 2 – Personal Development Plan

• Identify your areas for development • List what learning activities you are going to

undertake to achieve this development • State how the development links in with your

individual needs, as well as those of your patients/clients and organisation

• Indicate the evidence that will show achievement of the learning in your plan

• Learning outcomes should fulfil SMARRT criteria: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, resources and time bound.


Section 2 – Personal Development Plan Tools

• Learning styles questionnaire

• Skills for learning questionnaire

• SWOT analysis

• Key Skills for CPD

• APPRAISAL


Section 3 – Current Activities

• Mandatory Training record e.g. moving and handling, fire training

• Internal Training Record• Standard Operating Procedures sign-off form• External Training Record• Teaching/Facilitating Record• Publications, abstracts, presentations• Materials produced: forms, information,

sheets/posters etc.• Audit data


Section 4 – Evaluation

• Significant Incident form• The importance of learning from success

(example University Lecturer)• Conference/seminar/study day/course

evaluation• Evaluation of critical appraisal process • Learning outcomes information (useful

words etc.)


Section 5 – Storage

• It is recommended that you audit your portfolio regularly and place in storage anything that isn’t relevant to this year.

• Storage of archived materials is recommended for ~ 5 years.


CPD Activities in CTU


Reflection on this session


Questions?


THE END

documenting cpd

Documents

cpd skills

cpd agenda

summary of cpd

hpc cpd definition

written cpd profile

quality of practice

standards of practice

code of conduct