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CPD for clinical support roles: I lead or am a member of a research-related committee, foundation, editorial board, ethics committee or other research group.

I lead or am a member of a research-related committee, foundation, editorial board, ethics committee or other research group
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Key areas to consider in planning your CPD include:

  • Learning and growing as in your role, including your professional supports and networks
  • Using your specialist knowledge to address public interest
  • Enhancing your leadership skills, including committee chairing
  • Enhancing your communication skills
  • Managing conflicts of interest and understanding own biases

See also Clinical leadership & medical management: I chair or am a member of a committee, board or expert advisory group.

See also Other expertise: I chair/am a member of a medical board/council.

Practice evaluation (category 1)

  • 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 and publishing 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.
  • Ask other committee members to provide you with multi-source feedback (clinical support), with a trusted colleague collating the feedback and discussing it with you.
  • Participate in a peer support group of self-selected peers with expertise and interest in similar areas of practice (see key areas to consider)Learning and growing as in your role, including your professional supports and networks; Using your specialist knowledge to address public interest; Enhancing your leadership skills, including committee chairing; Enhancing your communication skills; Managing conflicts of interest and understanding own biases. See the resources section to support selection of peer support group discussion topics.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

  • Participate in research committees, foundations, editorial boards or other research groups and claim this under education/research committee work.
  • Undertake a formal leadership or governance qualification and claim time spent doing this under formal courses.
  • Attend courses and workshops to develop your leadership skills. Claim time spent doing this under leadership and management skills development.
  • Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions on leadership or governance relevant to your practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerLearning and growing as in your role, including your professional supports and networks; Using your specialist knowledge to address public interest; Enhancing your leadership skills, including committee chairing; Enhancing your communication skills; Managing conflicts of interest and understanding own biases). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
  • Participate on an ethics committee and claim this under reviewer, grant applications.
The college welcomes suggestions on additional resources and topics for CPD on research-related committees, foundations, editorial boards, ethics committees or other research groups.

ANZCA & FPM resources

Councillor and committee chair resources: Practical tips for effective chairing from ANZCA on Vimeo.

External resources

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