IAP CPD NEWS

1^st June 2004

Dear Participant

The end of another year for CPD is coming.  We have decided to change the point system to make it easier to keep records and also make it more flexible to help psychiatrists in rural areas.

The changes are as follows:

1.  As before, the aim of continued professional development is to make sure that members keep up with current professional practice and to develop skills further.

2.  IAP-CPD will run from 1^st January to 31^st December making it easier to keep records for participants who are also doing other CPD’s.  This year (July 2003 to June 2004) will be extended to 30^th November 2004. The requirements for points will be as before but you will get seventeen months instead of twelve to acquire those points.

3.  In line with other colleges requirements, we have made IAP-CPD more flexible. Please read the sheet along with this letter.

4.  Instead of points, the tally will be kept in hours, making it easy for you to record. Keep a record in a paper dairy or on the web dairy.

5.  Please send in your tally sheet for this year (July 03 – Nov 04) in December 2004, so that I can send you a certificate before January 2005 after which our new system will start.  I will also send a new tally sheet at that time. Members are required to earn 50 hours every year instead of 1000 credit points for five years.

6.  Record keeping is important to prove your claims, as random auditing will be done.

7.  A certificate of participation or certificate of completion along with total hours will be issued every year – Associate members who complete the CPD programme, will be given a certificate that can be used for registration purposes.

8.  Members leaving practice for a period of six months or more for such reasons as sickness, maternity leave or other leave of absence, may, on application prior to leave have their total hours requirement reduced.

9.  Record of participation in the programme will remain confidential.


Explanation:

Peer Review:

We have broadened the peer review definition to include telecommunication, review on line etc. so that it is easier for psychiatrists in remote areas to accumulate hours.  Meetings of more than half hour with three other colleagues will be accepted as far as it is about the review of a case.  Please keep a record with the signatures of others.

If you present a case or a paper on a website and three colleagues review that and comment, it will be accepted for the CPD, if you record it.

If you still cannot achieve enough hours, please come to the AGM and I will organise review meeting for you.


Learning activity:

This is divided into groups and individual activities.  Even though the total hours are counted, it is preferred to have both categories.

If you subscribe the journals, audio digest or have access to medical libraries, keep a record of these.

Keep the invitation or programmes of conferences.


Education, Teaching, Research:

Hours taken to prepare publication, presentation and others can be taken into account.


Please keep these sheets for further reference.


Thanking you


Kind regards,

NAVEEN CHANDRA
IAP-CPD CO-ORDINATOR