Library resource guides: CPD for clinical support roles: Emerging technologies

Guide index

Key areas to consider in planning your CPD include:

Understanding emerging technologies and exploring the implications for your practice.

Practice evaluation (category 1)

Undertake a critical reflection on an emerging technology relevant to your work and develop a plan for practice change. Potential topics for reflection include the role of social media and artificial intelligence.
Participate in a peer support group of self-selected peers with expertise and interest in new technologies and practice. Areas of focus for the group include using technologies appropriately and effectively in your professional practice. Examples include: value and outcomes of social media presence, using specific posts to identify areas of effective professional engagement and learning, and areas with less successful engagement/learning.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

Undertake a formal qualification on new technologies and claim time spent doing this under formal courses.
Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to new technologies and your practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerUnderstanding emerging technologies and exploring the implications for your practice). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.

The college welcomes suggestions on additional resources and topics for CPD on emerging technologies.

ANZCA & FPM resources

CPD Activity Guide
This guide contains a list of all the activities associated with the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program, as well as links to associated individual activity guides and forms.
Mahoney et al. Social media and the scholar role: helping anaesthetists to find substance in the FOAM. Australasian Anaesthesia 2023:3-10.

ANZCA: Artificial Intelligence in Health Library Guide
This guide has been designed to spotlight emerging information of AI-related health technologies and guidelines.

External resources

Milner RJ, Flotte TR, Thorndyke LE. Defining Scholarship for Today and Tomorrow. J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2023;43(2):133-138.
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Scholarship, required for academic advancement, has traditionally been defined narrowly, not keeping pace with the expansion of faculty academic activities in health professions schools. How can we refine the definition of scholarship so that it better aligns with the scope of current faculty practice within academic health systems? Revision of the academic policies for promotion and tenure at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School afforded an opportunity to redefine scholarship such that a broader platform was available for faculty recognition, aligning with current academic standards, yet providing flexibility for the future. The authors describe the historical context of the definition of scholarship and their institution's process to construct a definition of scholarship with three essential elements: advancement of knowledge, dissemination for critical review, and impact on a discipline, practice, or community. Application of this definition to team science and digital scholarship is also described. Following a widespread continuing education initiative, implementation of the new definition within promotion and tenure processes of the medical, nursing, and graduate schools resulted in broad acceptance across the institution. This forum article provides lessons in leading an academic health sciences institution to reassess academic processes and is a resource for advancing the vigorous debate on the evolving meaning and evaluation of scholarship.
O'Glasser AY, Arora VM, Chan TM. Capturing and Articulating Visual Media as Scholarship. J Grad Med Educ. 2022;14(2):233-234.
O’Glasser AY, Jain S, Wray C, Arora V, Shapiro M. White Paper: COVID-19 Contributions on a Residency/Fellowship ERAS Application. Explore the Space, LLC. June 2020.

Medical Board of Australia - Ahpra: Social media: How to meet your obligations under the National Law
This guidance is to help registered health practitioners understand and meet their obligations when using social media.
AMC: Digital Capability Framework for Medicine: A Framework for a Digitally Capable and Enabled Medical Profession
The capability framework helps guide how medical education providers throughout the continuum of medical education can play a role in the development of a digitally capable medical workforce in Australia and New Zealand.
Medical Council of New Zealand - Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa: Use of the internet and electronic communication
This statement guides New Zealand-based doctors on the use of email and other forms of social media.
Medical Council of New Zealand - Te Kaunihera Rata o Aotearoa: Professional Boundaries in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
This statement outlines the doctor's responsibility to maintain professional boundaries with patients and covers the inherent power imbalance in the doctor-patient relationship, gifts, bequests and loans, other financial transactions, acting as a representative or enduring power of attorney, and social media.