Society offers free CPD materials
An array of free continuing professional development support materials for pharmacists can now be ordered from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society using a reply-paid card.
The card is being distributed with this issue of The Journal to all members
of the Society who are on the practising section of the Register.
The support materials on offer include a basic guidance document entitled “CPD
for beginners: getting started”, a replacement “Plan and
record” pack, the CPD Desktop software and CPD case studies for
community, hospital, primary care, academia, industry and management.
Also available are documents setting out CPD competences for the specialist
fields of academia, government, health informatics, industry, medicines
information, medicines management, primary care and supplementary prescribing.
(“Plan and record” already sets out areas of competence for
all practising pharmacists and specific competences for community pharmacists,
hospital pharmacists and preregistration tutors.)
CPD support materials can also be obtained from the CPD page of the
Society’s website (www.rpsgb.org/members), and from the Society’s
separate CPD Online website (www.uptodate.org.uk).
The support materials were referred to in a recent letter sent to individual
members of the Society in the name of the President, Hemant Patel, urging
them to start
with CPD if they have not already done so (PJ, 28 January,
p113). The President’s message is reinforced this week in an article
(p185) emphasising the importance of getting to grips with the recording
of continuing professional development before it becomes a mandatory
requirement.
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