By the end of your three-year CPD cycle, you will need to have completed a Peer Discussion Review with a colleague, to enable you to reflect on your CPD and practice. This will normally take place towards the end of the cycle, although it could be undertaken early in Year 3 to allow time for any further CPD development if needed.
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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 …
In this episode, Steven Bettles, Head of Policy at GOsC, speaks with fellow osteopath Claire Piper about mentorship. Claire shares why mentorship is really useful, not only to less experienced osteopaths who may be looking for support, but also for …
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.
The Peer Discussion Review (PDR) template is designed to help structure a supportive conversation and provides a ‘walk-through’ for both the peer and the osteopath. The PDR template should be completed and agreed by both osteopath and peer(s) and should …
Dr Stacey Clift, Senior Research and Policy Officer at the General Osteopathic Council provides a detailed overview of the Peer Discussion Review (PDR) process and explains how it fits into the CPD scheme.
The Peer Discussion Review (PDR) template is designed to help structure a supportive conversation and provides a ‘walk-through’ for both the peer and the osteopath.
This completed example is about an osteopath who conducted his PDR over Zoom with an osteopath he knew but didn’t work with directly. The osteopath is a sole practitioner with his own clinic but is also an educator spending one day a week working in an osteopathic education institution.
