CPD for clinical support roles: I support the research of others

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Undertake an annual structured conversation/performance appraisal with your head of department/practice, manager or a trusted colleague including on your research supervisory role to review your professional activities, development needs, learning goals and plans for the following year.
• Undertake a critical reflection on your supervisory/collaborative research work and develop a plan for practice change. Potential topics for reflection include your supervisory skills, opportunities and challenges in collaborative research and supervision, and success of those you support (research qualifications, projects, career advancement). Such reflection is enhanced by feedback from those whose research you support.
• Formally mentor a colleague and claim hours spent doing so under the mentoring activity (your mentee can also claim time spent on this activity).
• Ask those you supervise and other colleagues with knowledge of such supervision to provide you with multi-source feedback (clinical support), with a trusted colleague collating the feedback and discussing it with you.
• Ask a colleague to complete a peer review of educational practice, focusing on the teaching and facilitating learning domain.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Attend face-to-face or virtual lectures, presentations or education sessions relevant to your supervision of others’ research practice (see key areas to considerSetting clear objectives and expectations; Setting regular progress meetings; Evaluating the quality and impact of the research outputs of those you support; Providing constructive feedback; Keeping track of milestones and deadlines; Encouraging mentees to reflect on their own progress and development; Evaluating mentees' perceptions of the support, guidance, and accessibility provided by you). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Provide feedback to a colleague whose research you support as part of their CPD activities. Claim time spent observing their performance, collating feedback and providing them with feedback under review of ANZCA/FPM fellows. Examples of CPD activities where you might provide feedback are MsF, MsF-CS, annual structured conversation/performance appraisal, peer review of educational practice, and report of audit findings. (Note: for peer review of practice [Anaesthesia | DHM | Pain Medicine | PPM] and peer review of educational practice, both participants claim under that activity.)
• Prepare and deliver tutorials to trainees, prevocational doctors or medical students. Claim time spent doing this under teaching. Note that this does not include informal teaching (for example: in theatre or pain clinic) and supervision of trainee/student clinical work. It does include tutorials on research and audit methodology (for example: for ANZCA scholar role activities).