Background

CPD Home is committed to supporting its subscribers to:

• undertake meaningful professional development
• meet their Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements under the Medical Board of Australia’s (MBA)’s Registration Standard: Continuing Professional Development (the Standard)
• easily demonstrate that they have done so should they be audited by the MBA.

Similarly, CPD Home is committed to supporting those subscribers who have been identified for remediation with identifying, sourcing, and acquiring the required competencies for the provision of safe health care.

Purpose

The purpose of this policy is to outline the steps to be followed by CPD Home when subscribers have self-identified or been identified as poorly performing and/or require remedial management, or up-skilling to comply with their relevant standard for continued medical registration.

Objective

To support those subscribers, seeking or requiring remediation, to develop and undertake a learning program tailored to their individual learning and performance review needs that address the issue(s) identified by any regulatory authority and encourage the development of required knowledge, skills and attitudes.

Scope

The policy covers all CPD Home subscribers who are identified as requiring remediation for not performing to expected standards or who are formally required by a regulatory body for performance improvement or upskilling.

Definitions

Please refer to the Glossary for definition(s) of terms that apply to this policy.

Policy

Wherever a subscriber self-identifies or is identified by a regulatory body or employer as needing remediation CPD Home will, upon a request from the subscriber, with advice from CPD Advisory Panel as required, work with the subscriber, and, if required, any relevant specialty college, to identify remedial activities and implement a plan to address the reasons for the remediation.

Remediation activities may involve:

• clinical upskilling
• education on ethical and professional behaviour
• training and/or mentoring to enhance decision making, teamwork, leadership and supervisory skills
• any other aspects as identified by either the regulatory body or the CPD Advisory Panel.

Any remediation plan agreed to by the subscriber will be incorporated by CPD Home into the subscriber’s professional development plan for that CPD year.

Should CPD Home not be able to provide the subscriber with required remedial activities, they will refer the subscriber to learning providers who may be able to assist. This may require the subscriber and CPD Home to work with another CPD home provider. Should a subscriber choose to move CPD homes, CPD Home does not provide a refund to outgoing subscriber’s but will facilitate any required transfer of a subscriber’s details and CPD records from one CPD home provider to another. 

Where a subscriber is required to undertake remedial activities, the costs involved in undertaking those activities are at the subscriber’s expense.

If the subscriber remains with CPD Home, we will continue to monitor the subscriber’s progress and completion of remedial activities against their amended professional development plan.

The amended professional development plan should include:

• a reflection on learning needs
• learning goals
• specified activities for addressing the learning need
• the timeframe for completion
• any supervisory arrangements where required.

Provided all activities in the amended professional development plan are completed by the cut-off date for the end of the CPD year, CPD Home will issue the subscriber a CPD Statement of Completion. Should the subscriber not complete the activities required they will still be able to download a record of their CPD activities for a CPD year.

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