Transcript Making CPD work for you

Continuing Professional Development
Past, present and future
Lorraine Osman
Vice-President: South African Pharmacy Council
Head of Public Affairs: Pharmaceutical Society of South Africa
9 September 2011
CPD – the past
• HPCSA
– Points system
– What’s the point?
• SAPC
– Investigated alternative system
• The pharmacy profession
– Loved attendance certificates
CPD – the present
SAPC has:
• completed the pilot study
• developed software
• changed the website
• published draft regulations
CPD – the present
SAPC is busy:
• finalising the software
• finalising the regulations
• finalising the guidelines
• preparing for the onslaught
SANC is busy:
• talking to SAPC about its system!
Let’s talk about submissions ….
The PSSA submission to SAPC
• Feedback from
– National Executive Committees
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PSSA
CPS
SAAHIP
Academy
SAAPI
– Members
What have I learnt over the years?
• It’s not as easy as it sounds!
• Comment is often based on
• limited personal experience
• incomplete knowledge
• People (pharmacists) do not always read all
documents
• Maybe (just maybe) more information is
needed!
Structure of legislation and control
Statute
• can only be changed by an Act of Parliament
Regulations to an Act
• published by the Minister
• developed by statutory council
Board notice
• published by statutory council
Rules and guidelines
• published by statutory council
What is the significance of the
layers?
Most important – the ease (or difficulty) and
time needed for amendments
So … what would you put into
• a statute?
• a regulation?
• a Board notice?
• a rule or guideline?
Pharmacy legislation and CPD
• Regulations relating to education and training
– approval of courses for purposes of CPD
(2000)
• Rules relating to Good Pharmacy Practice
(2004)
• Rules relating to Code of Conduct (2008)
• Services for which pharmacists may levy a fee
(2010)
SAPC guidelines for CPD
NB
• This guidance document is not the final
document
• It is in the process of being refined
BUT
• The basic requirements remain the same
SAPC guidelines for CPD
SAPC guidelines for CPD
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Introduction
Why is Continuing Professional Development necessary?
Who must participate in CPD?
Requirements relating to CPD for persons registered with the
SAPC
Assessment of compliance with the requirements relating to
CPD
Appeals
Time frame for implementation of mandatory recording of
CPD for persons registered with the SAPC
List of Appendices
The bottom line
• The principles have not changed
since I last spoke to you!
• The guidelines are in the process
of refinement
• Additional rules need to be
developed
Requirements for CPD
• Based on the CPD cycle
– Reflection on practice
– Planning
– Action
– Evaluation of learning
• “How” is up to you – if you need it, make sure
you get it
• Recording – web-based
How will compliance be assessed?
• Mainly review of CPD activities, within the
context of the CPD cycle
– What did you need to know?
– How did you decide on what to do?
– What did you do?
– What is your opinion of the impact of the
learning?
Assessment criteria
Portfolio of evidence
Whatever is relevant!
• Attendance certificates
• Assessment and/or certificates for short
courses, including distance learning
• Journal articles, read or written
• Minutes of meetings
• Your own detailed written account
Remember ….
• Council is only checking for compliance with
very simple requirements
• Council is NOT (at this stage!) checking
competence
• A five year cycle will be used with spot checks
taken from 20% of pharmacists annually
Will Council ask for your portfolio
of evidence?
• Not necessarily
• May be requested if
–there is no activity in your CPD record
–the entries are inadequate
• Likely to be requested from interns
Were you paying attention?
What did I just say?
Did you hear right?
Of course you did!
Interns will be required to submit a
portfolio of evidence.
• The intern portfolio as we have
known it will not be used in future
• No longer evidence of competence
• Now a CPD portfolio
A new concern –
practising vs non-practising
• If you perform one or more of the activities
listed in the scope of practice for which you
are registered, you are practising
• If you have to ask, you probably are practising!
• Practising means that you must participate in
CPD
The register
• There is not going to be a separate register –
we are living in the electronic era!
• Check what the website says now
– you can check if a pharmacist is registered
– it will show if you have supplementary
qualifications, e.g. PCDT
• There will be an annotation that says
“practising” or “non-practising”
When does recording become
mandatory?
The guidance document says:
Subject to
publication of the
regulation
When does assessment begin?
The guidance document says:
1 January 2015
www.sapc.za.org
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Thank you!