Warwick Emergency Care and Rehabilitation

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Documenting CPD

• Mark Williams
• Learning Club
• 15 November 2006

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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

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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)

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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)

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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.

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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 educators
  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, NSFs, national
  competence frameworks

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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.

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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
  (Dont worry its for feet people!).
• Physiotherapists audited prior to renewing their
  registration in April 2010
• Expected to comply with the standards from their
  introduction.

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HPC Standards

• Maintain a continuous, up-to-date and accurate
  record of CPD activity
• Demonstrate CPD activities are a mixture of
  learning activities
• Ensure CPD contributes to quality of practice and
  service delivery
• Seek to ensure CPD benefits service user
• Present a written CPD profile upon request

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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The CPD Process
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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!

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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/

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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.

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Section 2 Personal Development Plan Tools

• Learning styles questionnaire
• Skills for learning questionnaire
• SWOT analysis
• Key Skills for CPD
• APPRAISAL

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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

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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.)

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Section 5 Storage

• It is recommended that you audit your portfolio
  regularly and place in storage anything that
  isnt relevant to this year.
• Storage of archived materials is recommended for
  5 years.

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CPD Activities in CTU
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Reflection on this session
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Questions?
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