It is getting silly.... The local geriatrician was getting stroppy
emails from the hospital administrators as his compulsory refresher
course on child protection was overdue
Alan
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GP Extraordinaire
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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trefor Roscoe
Sent: 25 April 2010 12:07 PM
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Subject: Re: 2 assertions on appraisal and (re)validation
Compulsory child protection training, resuscitation training and allergy
training are figments of some PCT administrators imagination.
The CPD you do will be determined by yourself in discussion with your
appraiser at your annual appraisals. NOTHING will be COMPULSORY. It
would seem prudent to have some update on child protection issues every
few years but that could be by having an in house discussion of a case,
by doing an on line learning module, or reading articles in journals or
Pulse and GP, or attending a workshop if this is (in YOUR opinion) the
best way to learn. If you identify an educational need and fulfil it and
reflect on the resultant changes in your practice (all of which can be
described in a few sentences on half a sheet of A4), then this will be
sufficient and would count for anything from 1 to 4 hours CPD.
Learning that is linked to demonstrable improvements in practice will
count double. Thus I went on a Minor surgery update and as a result have
overhauled my auditing process, introduced new suture materials, started
doing joint injections and tightened up the checking of histology
results with a new system. The 6 hours of the course will thus count for
at least 10 hours and possibly 12 as most of the sessions directly lead
to change for good in patient management, audit and management within
the practice. The session we had recently at the appraisers quarterly
meeting lasted 2 hours but would count for 4 hours as we were all going
to change our working practices as a result and we could show a learning
need (no one knew wtf was going on) that was fulfilled (we now know wtf
is going on) and our approach to appraisal and the standards required
will be applied to all the appraisals we are doing this year. So in one
full day and one afternoon I have already clocked up about 16 hours of
my 50 in a month, not counting the hours I have spent teaching F2s,
getting educated on a new computer system, attending practice meetings,
in house learning and lots of other thing, including typing this out (I
am teaching hundreds of GPs).
My view is it will be difficult to decide which of the hundreds of hours
of personal learning that GPs regularly do that are covered by the
requirements of revalidation to choose to document each year to show 50
hours.
The key point is that there will be guidelines to help set standards and
make the process homogenous throughout the country, but it is up to you
what you do.
Trefor
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