A requirement of the CPD scheme includes maintaining a record of your CPD activities across the three-year cycle. Your records must show that you have completed CPD across all elements of the scheme, done a minimum of 90 hours CPD plus a minimum of 45 hours ‘learning with others.’
Keeping CPD Records
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Welcome to the General Osteopathic Council (GOsC) podcast. In this episode, Steven Bettles, Head of Policy and Education, speaks with Laura Turner about Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Laura has just completed her first CPD cycle and she and Steven discuss …
Communication and patient partnership
Keeping CPD Records
Osteopathic Practice Standards
Professionalism
Safety and quality in practice
Skills and Performance
This is the second in a series of blogs in which Stacey shares some of the most frequent questions osteopaths are asking when completing key components of the CPD scheme.
We know from the 2020-21 CPD evaluation survey that most …
This is the first in a series of blogs in which Stacey shares some of the common questions she is being asked by osteopaths who are completing key components of the scheme.
Deborah Smith, an osteopath member of the GOsC Council, explains the benefits of reflection and looks at a number of different models of reflective practice including her personal favourite.
Across healthcare there has been a drive towards reflective practice. Why? …
With most osteopaths now in their final year of the three-year scheme, Lorraine discusses how osteopaths have been getting to grips with the verification and assurance process.
This template is designed to help you record any of the CPD activities you undertake. It will assist you in identifying your strengths, areas of your practise to consider for development and an action plan for future activities or a …
Your guide to the new CPD scheme provides a brief introduction to the new CPD scheme that launched in October 2018. It contains helpful information, useful tips and plenty of links to further resources to help and support you in …
This document contains the full guidance for osteopaths on the GOsC CPD scheme requirements. The CPD scheme provides assurance of continuing fitness to practise for every osteopath on the Statutory Register, by encouraging osteopaths to develop their practice as members …
This workbook has been prepared to support osteopaths in keeping their CPD records. You might choose to keep your records in the o zone area in, the CPD Diary, as many osteopaths do now, but the new system will allow you the flexibility to use other methods if you wish and we will explore explore these in this guide.
