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We are now eight months into the 2022/23 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) year, which means there are only a further four months to complete any learning you intended to include on your CPD summary. CPD must be completed by the end of August 2023, and recorded by the end of September 2023.

What is required for your CPD?

As a chiropractor, CPD is essential to ensure that you stay up to date with the latest research, trends, and techniques; so you can provide the best possible care for your patients. CPD can be an opportunity to expand your skills and knowledge in areas that you may not have previously considered - helping you to offer a wider range of treatments, or to hone your approach and build a better rapport with your patients. We ask that 15 hours of your CPD is carried out with other people - providing an opportunity to network with other professionals in your field, share ideas and best practices, reflect on other points of view and build relationships that could lead to new insights into your practise.

In summary, continuing professional development is crucial for you to stay relevant, maintain your professional registration, expand your skills and knowledge, and build relationships with other professionals in the field.

To complete your CPD you will need to:

  • Answer four questions reflecting on this year's mandatory topic of consent.
  • Identify your learning needs/interests and produce a personal plan of learning activities to address them
  • Undertake and record at least 30 hours of CPD activity in accordance with your plan, of which 15 hours or more constitutes learning with others.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of the learning undertaken

If you are a new registrant you will need to complete the Clinical Governance requirements of the CPD as part of your 30 hours of activity.

There is more information on the CPD page of the website as well as a newly updated registrant CPD Guide to assist you in completing your online summary.

Tips for writing your CPD report

  • You should look to write between 50 and 200 words per reflection - the majority of CPD records that were returned to the registrant after being deemed "inadequate" contained only two or three word answers.
  • When reflecting on why you undertook the learning, consider a brief case study that explains why you settled on that specific learning requirement – you may like to use the STARR method (situation, task, action, result and reflection) to briefly explain why you felt you needed this specific learning.
  • When reflecting on the quality of the learning activity, we are looking for insight into what you learned, how it impacts your practise, and how you plan to use the knowledge gained in your work. You should be considering, from a sceptical, evidence-based position, how the learning is relevant to your work. It is not intended to be a review of the training provider or materials (though this may also form a part of the reflection).

Completed a piece of CPD? Don't wait until September to log it!

We know from previous years that some people "store up" their CPD and log it all at once, however this does not give you the opportunity to reflect on the activity while it is still fresh in your mind. Following feedback from registrants, we have created a shortcut on the registrant homepage to allow you to log your CPD without completing the reflection activity first. This means you can log CPD learning as soon as you complete it (note you will still need  to complete the reflection on consent before it can be submitted).