CONTINUINGPROFESSIONALDEVELOPMENT

Does it apply to ME?

Lorraine OsmanVice President: SA Pharmacy Council

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Task 1

What are your expectations today?

What do you expect to learn?

Why do you want to learn that?

CPD – Definition

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What is CPD?

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Task 2

What do you understand by the term

“Continuing Professional Development”?

CPD is the process by which

• natural persons registered with Council

• continually enhance their competence throughout their professional careers,

• and encompasses a range of activities including continuing education and supplementary training

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CPD overview – International and National trends

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Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

Portugal Yes Maintain Practice licence

Undertake extensive exam/disciplinary action

Evaluated every five years

Pharmacy board and gov

Canada Yes Maintain Practice licence

Refusal to renew licence

Mandatory CE credits

Provincial pharmacy boards

Germany No Certificate N/A CE point =45 mini units

N/A

CPD and CE systems by Country

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Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

Singapore No Certificate and Maintain Practice licence

N/A N/A N/A

Malta No N/A N/A N/A N/A

USA (in all 50 states)

Yes Maintain Practice licence

Refusal to renew licence

Completion of specified no of hours of accredited CE/CPD

State boards of pharmacy

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CPD and CE systems by Country

Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

Brazil No N/A N/A N/A N/A

Cyprus No N/A N/A CPD in development

Regulatory boards

France Yes Certificate N/A CPD in development

Regulatory boards

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CPD and CE systems by Country

Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

UK Yes Maintain Practice licence

Maybe removed from register

Record CPD activities

Pharmacy profession

Iraq No Certificate N/A One credit per year

Pharmacy profession

Israel No Certificate N/A Voluntary Gov

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CPD and CE systems by Country

Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

Japan No Certificate N/A Based on CPD credits

MLHW and MEXT

Kenya Yes Renewal of annual practice licence

Remedial learning and re-examination

Point allocation

Gov

Nepal No N/A N/A CPD in development

Pharmacy Council

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CPD and CE systems by Country

Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

Taiwan Yes Maintain Practice licence

Refusal to renew licence

48 hrs (credits) every two years.

Pharmacy profession

Zambia Yes Renewal of annual practice licence

Refusal to renew licence

Evidence of attendance (points)

Pharmacy profession

source: http://www.fip.org/files/fip/HR/final%20report/Part2.pdf

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CPD and CE systems by Country

CPD overview – South African

Pharmacy Council

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CPD system SAPC

Country Continuing Professional

Development/Continuing Education CPD regulators

Mandatory

Incentives Penalties Description

South Africa

Yes Maintain Practice status

Change to non-practising

Record 12 activities p.a. and evaluated every five years

SAPC

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Who needs to do CPD?

All persons registered with the SAPC • Pharmacists• Pharmacist’s assistants• Pharmacy technicians• Medical sales representatives?

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Guidance documentCase studies

Test site

CPD Websitewww.sapc-cpd.org

CPD submissions• Web based record • No assessment for competence –

pharmacists’ ethical and legal obligation to ensure competence

• Assessment for compliance• Portfolio of evidence – preferably in electronic

format • Council reserves the right to call for the

portfolio

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What if I don’t comply?

• Registration status may be changed on decision of Council from practising to non practising

Practising – performs functions which fall within the scope of practice for which you are registered

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Do you use your professional judgement in any way?

Are you employed because of your professional knowledge and

expertise?

Practising vs non-practising

Worst case scenario

• Referred for investigation in terms of chapter 5 (disciplinary powers of the Council) of Pharmacy Act

• Right of appeal

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How do I participate in CPD?

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CPD – Definition

Means the process by which

• natural persons registered with Council

• continually enhance their competence throughout their professional careers,

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• and encompasses a range of activities including continuing education and

supplementary training

CPD cycle

RECORD

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So what? How?

Do it!

What?

What’s the bottom line?

NB – how you reflect on those activities to show how they have impacted or will impact on your current and future professional practice

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How do I use the CPD web-based system to maintain my

CPD portfolio?

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What do you want to learn to do?

How did you identify this?

To which areas of competence does it relate?28

Urgency?Importance or impact?How?

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When did you do it?

What did you learn?

Has your learning objective been met?

How have you applied what you learnt?

What feedback have you had?30

Where do we go from here?

RECORD

What did you NOT achieve?Why not?

What’s next?

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CPD implementation

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CPD pilot

• 700 tutors, HOS, facilitators, Council members and the Office of the Registrar

• Purpose Test the web-based system for the 2010

implementation Guide further research on CPD

development

• Final pilot report will be published

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How the system will help us

• Easy for user to record and manage CPD details

• Can flag use (or non-use)

• Can identify if all steps have been followed, but cannot monitor the logic (or lack thereof)

• Can give guidance on gaps in curricula and CPD topics

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TIME FRAME FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF MANDATORY CPD FOR PERSONS REGISTERED WITH THE SAPC

Phase Description Dates

Phase 1 Voluntary participation in CPD – self determination and self assessment

2009

Phase 2 Preliminary study using volunteers and tutors for the development of the CPD system

July 2009

Phase 3 Mandatory CPD. During this phase CPD records will be assessed for compliance only

1 January 2010 – 31 December 2014

Phase 4 Pilot phase for testing the assessment tool

2010 – 2014

Phase 5 Mandatory CPD with assessment of CPD records

1 January 2015

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Just do it!

Action?

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SAPC customer care0861 7272 00

CPD Websitewww.sapc-cpd.org

Temporary Passwords

• SAPC No: 0090-0095

• Username: test0090- test0095

• Password: pwd0090- pwd0095

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