CPD
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
- How do you keep up to date?
- How did you identify your learning needs?
- How do you record your learning?
- Where do you reflect on your learning?
- What impact has your learning had on patient care this year?
These are the questions doctors would be expected to consider regarding their CPD. The most important part of your appraisal is reflecting on your learning from your CPD over the year and what impact that has had on patient care.
Purpose of carrying out and reflecting on CPD
- To help doctors keep up to date and competent in all the work they do
- To maintain and enhance the quality of their professional work across their whole practice
- To encourage and support specific improvements in practice
What is a PDP (Personal Development Plan)?
- Provides appraisee with focus to personal and professional development
- Used to measure progress over time
- Helps prioritise learning needs
- Identified by appraisees
At the end of each appraisal you need to agree a development plan for the following year with your appraiser. As part of your appraisal preparation you can consider what you think will be most relevant for you. The appraisal discussion may bring up some other areas that would be useful to include. The questions on the following slide will help you consider this in a little more detail.
PDP Questions
- Make sure it meets SMART criteria
(Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time specific)
- What will you develop or do differently? (Be specific)
- Why? How did you identify? And relevance?
- How will you learn this? (Knowledge / skills / attitude?)
- When – Timescale?
- How will you know when objective is achieved?
- How will you demonstrate this?
At the end of your appraisal you will agree with your appraiser which elements will be included as PDP elements for the next year. Ensure they meet the SMART criteria. These need to be realistic and achievable while also being relevant to the work you do.
This page was last updated on: 21/11/2024
