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.
Knowledge Peer Discussion Review
Dr Stacey Clift
Our Head of Research and Data Insight, Stacey Clift, explains the feedback we received to the consultation on the CPD scheme at the beginning of 2025, and the work the GOsC are doing now on the scheme as a result …
Keeping CPD Records Knowledge Objective Activity Osteopathic Practice Standards Peer Discussion Review Planning Skills and Performance / Guidance / Podcast / Workbook
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 …
Knowledge Osteopathic Practice Standards Peer Discussion Review Peer observation Planning Skills and Performance / Guidance / Podcast
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 …
Keeping CPD Records Objective Activity Peer Discussion Review
Dr Stacey Clift
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.
We want to support osteopaths as they complete …
Keeping CPD Records Osteopathic Practice Standards Peer Discussion Review
Deborah Smith
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? …
Peer Discussion Review
Lorraine Palmer
Lorraine runs through some of the queries we have been receiving from osteopaths about the Peer Discussion Review
As the third year of the CPD cycle is coming to a close for many osteopaths, attention is very much turning to …
Peer Discussion Review
Rachel Heatley
Rachel Heatley
Rachel shares her experience of a recent presentation to Kent and East Sussex Osteopaths Group on Peer Discussion Review.
With the majority of osteopaths now in the final year of their three-year cycle, focus is turning towards completing …
Communication and consent Keeping CPD Records Knowledge Objective Activity Peer Discussion Review
Lorraine Palmer
Objective Activity Peer Discussion Review
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 …
Peer Discussion Review / Videos
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.
In this webinar, which was hosted by …
