CPD for clinical support roles: I conduct research

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Undertake a critical reflection on your research work and develop a plan for practice change. Potential topics for reflection include feedback from co-authors and reviewers (and areas for future improvements), progress with your research projects (for example: grant success), review of a recording of one of your formal research presentations, or impact of your research outcomesCheck out the Research Support Toolkit for more information on research metrics (for example: publication numbers, citations and H index).
• Participate in a cultural safety activitySee the Support across work roles > Providing a culturally safe practice tab for more information with a view to better understanding cultural safety and implications for research practice. Following this activity, consider undertaking a critical reflection on what you have learnt and what it means for your practice.
• Formally engage with a mentor to further your professional goals and research practice. Claim hours spent doing so under the mentoring activity.
• If you participate in education research, ask a colleague to complete a peer review of educational practice, focusing on the educational research and scholarship domain.
• Participate in a peer support group of self-selected peers with expertise and interest in research. Potential areas of focus for the group include research outputs and collaborations.
• Conduct a practice audit (clinical support) relevant to your research practice. Potential topics for audit include research outcomes, grant success, career progress/aspirations or contrasting your practice against national standards.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Undertake a formal research qualification and claim time spent doing this under formal courses.
• Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to your research practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerConcept; Literature review; Protocol development; Establishing the research team; Grant applications; Ethics and governance review; Developing study tools (case report form, database, site logs, manual of operations); Site initiation and education; Recruitment; Data collection; Data entry; Ongoing ethics and governance reporting; Monitoring and audit; Statistical analysis plan; Statistical analysis; Manuscript preparation; Manuscript review; Post publication discourse; Presentation; Sub-studies and sub-analyses; Reflection and future planning). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Undertake an ICH Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-compliant course and claim time spent on doing this under short format learning. See the Short format learning section of the ANZCA & FPM CPD Program resources guide for examples.
• Present your research at a conference/other meeting and claim time spent doing this under presenting.
• Contribute to the publication phase of a research project (literature review, write up, responding to reviewer comments). Claim time spent doing this under publications.
• Enhance your research expertise by leading or contributing to research, claiming time spent under research (including grant proposals and trials).
• Claim your peer review of manuscripts for journals/other publications under reviewer/editor of journal. Editorial review of manuscripts is also claimed under this category.
• Review grant applications . Claim time spent doing this under reviewer, grant applications. Includes chairing or acting as a member of an ethics committee.