CPD for clinical support roles: I chair/am a member of a medical board/council

Practice evaluation (category 1)

• Claim notification work and work on impaired registrant panels under clinical governance/quality assurance committee work.
• Facilitate or participate in an analysing healthcare outcomes (AHO) activity with a small group of colleagues on a published report of outcome data and evidence-based care relevant to medical regulation. Topic examples are in the AHO CPD guideline.
• Undertake an annual structured conversation/performance appraisal with your head of department/practice, manager or a trusted colleague including on your regulatory role to review your professional activities, development needs, learning goals and plans for the following year. This can be a one-to-one performance appraisal by the chair of your board/council, provided the conversation is formalised and documented (see the annual structured conversation guideline).
• Undertake a critical reflection on your regulatory work and develop a plan for practice change. Examples of reflection topics include identifying gaps in your knowledge of medical practice relevant to your regulatory work; and reviewing tribunal decisions to decide if a shift in decision-making is required for procedural fairness and consistency.
• 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 regulatory practice. Following this activity, consider undertaking a critical reflection on what you have learnt and what it means for your practice.
• Ask board/council 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 regulatory practice. Potential areas of focus for the group include reports of the Medical Board of Australia, Australian Medical Council or Medical Council of New Zealand; and relevant pubic consultations. Consider trends in regulation in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, and how standards might change to address these trends. Consider the intersection of politics and bioethics (for example: COVID exemption certificates, voluntary assisted dying, conscientious objection by healthcare providers). Reflect on internal committee culture and decision-making, as well as organisational communication, and feedback any concerns to the chair/organisation.

Knowledge & skills (category 2)

• Claim registration committee work and work relating to progress/appeals/compliance breaches/removal of conditions and undertakings under education/research committee work.
• Read peer-reviewed journals relevant to regulatory practice (see key areas to consider) How you use your specialist knowledge to address public interest; Enhancing your communication skills; Addressing risk; Legal frameworks; Understanding practitioner impairment; Dealing with the media and responding to publicity; Ethical issues including privacy and confidentiality; Conflicts of interest management and understanding own biases; Board effectiveness and claim this as journal reading.
• Attend face-to-face or virtual learning sessions relevant to your regulatory practice (for example: conferences, podcasts, webinars; see key areas to considerHow you use your specialist knowledge to address public interest; Enhancing your communication skills; Addressing risk; Legal frameworks; Understanding practitioner impairment; Dealing with the media and responding to publicity; Ethical issues including privacy and confidentiality; Conflicts of interest management and understanding own biases; Board effectiveness). Claim time spent doing this under learning sessions.
• Participate in face-to-face or virtual small group learning which may include teaching or learning a new skill relevant to your regulatory practice, and which has an interactive and/or hands on component. Claim this under short format learning.