Medical board warning: All doctors must join a CPD Home next year
It is mere weeks before the CPD Homes revolution finally starts. The reforms, first flagged way back in 2017, mean doctors must have a CPD Home…
Tag: CPD
A crying baby was the perfect soundtrack for my online CPD course on human errors
I attended an online CPD interactive workshop to earn a discount on my medical insurance fees. All the attendees had to shift between an online…
Medical colleges, the rise of the CPD Home and what it could mean for your postnominals
You do not need to be a member of your specialist medical college. Yes, colleges are still important, considering they define the doctor you are…
The new CPD regime and taming the unruly beast of our perfectionism
We are in the era of continuous improvement. Planning and documenting CPD in ways we previously did not. Standards and guidelines for almost everything. In…
You can now join a CPD home for just $299 — should the RACGP be worried?
The first question when the Medical Board of Australia announced its CPD home revolution was whether it meant GPs could abandon their colleges en masse.…
‘If you do not exist, you can do no harm’: A (very) grim fairy tale
Once upon a time, millions of years in the future, on a planet light-years away, there lived a small colony of breeding doctors. They were…
Is this really self-reflection? The CPD course that left me seething
I am becoming generally pissed off with the ‘reflection’ component of some of the courses designed to accommodate the newfangled, medical board-inspired accreditation process. In…
The new CPD regime: Why the AMA is menacing the RACGP
The reforms to CPD are now in place: self-reflection, the need for a written professional development plan, measuring your outcomes and the rest. This new regime offers…
The new CPD regime is coming – here’s what GPs need to know
In less than three months, GPs will enter the Medical Board of Australia’s revamped — and controversial — CPD regime. The demands for self-reflection and…
RACGP offers 40 CPD points for GPs to ‘critically review’ their bulk-billing
The RACGP is offering a limited number of GPs 40 CPD points to “critically review” whether they should be bulk-billing patients. Outgoing president Adjunct…
