Continuing Professional Development

Practitioners can join and complete Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity programs in MedicalDirector Clinical.

Before you begin

For GPs to receive prompts to join and complete CPD activities, Smart Clinical Support must be integrated into Smartbar. For more information, see Add, Update and Remove Widgets.

About this task

GPs join and complete the CPD activity in MedicalDirector Clinical.
Note:
Practitioners are required to complete a minimum of 50 CPD hours annually.

Practices can evaluate their GPs' CPD performance.

Procedure

To join a CPD activity:
  1. Log in to MedicalDirector Clinical.
    You will be prompted to join the CPD activity program.
  2. To participate in a CPD activity, in the CPD activity notification screen, review the RACGP CPD approved activity and click Join CPD Activity. Otherwise, click Not interested.
    CPD prompt
    If a message to join a CPD activity is not displayed, you can instead join it from the Sidebar. Select Smart Clinical Support Smartbar iconSmart Clinical Support widget and click on the CPD activity message. For example, CPD activity: Treating T2DM with comorbidities using SGLT2 inhibitors.
  3. To learn more about all CPD activity types, click Learn more and select the required activity type as follows:
    • Education Activity
    • Audit Activity
    • Recording CPD Hours
    Tip:
    Each CPD activity shows the CPD hours that will be recognised if you complete the activity.

Results

A confirmation message is displayed above the Join CPD Activity button in the notification screen.
CPD activity confirmation message

What to do next

After joining, practitioners will receive prompts to complete their CPD activity:
  • Webinar - to access the webinar, from the Sidebar, select Research Smartbar iconSmart Research and select the link.
    Tip:
    Alternatively, directly access the webinar on the Praxhub platform.
  • Apply learnings in practice - when opening a relevant patient record, practitioners will receive a prompt for patients who meet the clinical requirements for the CPD activity.
  • Review and recall your patients - work with your practice team to implement a recall strategy for the specific CPD activity related to the patients. For example, Treating T2DM with comorbidities using SGLT2 inhibitors.
    A purpose-built dashboard generates the patients list for CPD activity in the Visual Dashboards Smartbar iconSmart Visual Dashboards.
    Smart Visual Dashboards
  • Reports - When a CPD activity is complete, MedicalDirector Clinical generates a report which practices can use to evaluate their GPs' performance in the CPD activity.
    Tip:
    CPD hours are automatically submitted to RACGP on behalf of practices. Alternatively, practices can choose to submit their hours themselves.