OMS Continuing Professional Development

CPD Self-Evaluation – What is Self-Evaluation?

CPD Participants are required to complete a self-evaluation of your goals and achievements at the end of the year, in preparation to review and prepare your professional development plan for the following year. Time spent completing your reflection and reviewing your PDP can count towards the 50 hours of CPD required each year as a performance measurement activity and can be claimed under Category 3: Performance Review.  CPD Participants can enter their self-evaluation / reflection directly into the CPD Portal.  Refer to OMS CPD Guide, OMS CPD Participation and Compliance Policy and the MBA Professional Performance Framework and MCNZ Recertification and Professional Development for more information.

Forming a CPD Professional Development Plan

The Professional Development Plan forms the basis for planning, structuring, and monitoring continuing medical and dental education activities. The RACDS CPD Program encourages participants to consider their learning needs, connect their learning needs to suitable education activities, obtain credit for the activities, and contemplate their progress and the activities in a way that may change current practice and guide future development.  Outline your annual learning goals relevant to scope of practice, CPD Participants can enter their Professional Development directly into the CPD Portal.  Time spent completing and reviewing your PDP can count towards the 50 hours of CPD required each year as a performance measurement activity and can be claimed under Category 3: Performance Review. Refer to OMS CPD Guide, OMS CPD Participation and Compliance Policy and the MBA Professional Performance Framework and MCNZ Recertification and Professional Development for more information.

CPD Categories and Recording Templates

The CPD framework helps you identify activities under each category, many of which you are likely to be undertaking in your day-to-day role.

Click the link below for examples of CPD activities, acceptable evidence and recording templates to assist you in logging your CPD.

Cape Domains Activities and Examples

Mandatory Program Requirements – Cultural safety practice, Addressing health inequities, Professionalism and Ethical Practice (CAPE)

The New MBA CPD Registration Standard requires all medical practitioners to engage in activities relevant to CAPE: These are part of, not in addition to, your 50 hours of CDP to be completed every year.  The RACDS CPD Homes has recommended minimum time requirements for each domain;

• • Cultural safety practice (minimum 1.5 hours)

• • Addressing health inequities (minimum 1 hour)

• • Professionalism (minimum 2 hours)

• • Ethical practice (minimum 1 hour)

Click the link below to view an approved range of CAPE activities and how these link into the CPD categories.

All CAPE program-level requirements are aligned to the Good Medical Practice: a code of conduct for doctors in Australia. (the Code). The code describes what is expected of doctors registered to practise medicine in Australia. It sets out the principles that characterise good medical practice and makes explicit the standards of ethical and professional conduct expected of doctors by their professional peers and the community. To view how CPD CAPE domains are mapped against the Code click here.

The College has developed an online OMS Cultural Safety Induction Program for Fellows and Trainees. We recommend Fellows and Trainees complete the program using the following frequency as a guide.

• • Module 1 Cultural Safety every three years

• • Module 2 Discrimination and Communication Module (Self Reflection) every two years

• • Module 3 Reflective Practice Module (Group reflection) annually