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Preparing Your Appraisal and Revalidation Portfolio UK

Course Content

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Section 1: Appraisal, Revalidation and CPD: The Landscape

  • 1.1 Why Regulators Check Continuing Fitness to Practise

  • 1.2 Appraisal, Revalidation and CPD Compared

  • 1.3 Differences Across the Four Nations

  • 1.4 What Makes a Good Portfolio

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Section 2: What Each Regulator Requires

  • 2.1 Doctors: GMC Appraisal and Revalidation

  • 2.2 Nurses, Midwives and Nursing Associates: NMC Revalidation

  • 2.3 HCPC and Social Work England

  • 2.4 Dental, Pharmacy, Optical, Osteopathic and Chiropractic Professionals

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Section 3: Planning Your Learning

  • 3.1 Identifying Your Learning Needs

  • 3.2 Writing a Personal Development Plan

  • 3.3 Choosing CPD That Counts

  • 3.4 Recording CPD as You Go

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Section 4: Gathering Supporting Evidence

  • 4.1 Feedback from Patients, Service Users and Colleagues

  • 4.2 Quality Improvement Activity

  • 4.3 Significant Events, Complaints and Compliments

  • 4.4 Confidentiality and Information Governance in Portfolios

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Section 5: Writing Reflection That Shows Insight

  • 5.1 What Regulators Want from Reflection

  • 5.2 Models That Help Structure Reflection

  • 5.3 From Description to Learning

  • 5.4 Reflection, Investigations and the Law

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Section 6: The Appraisal Conversation

  • 6.1 Preparing for Appraisal

  • 6.2 During the Discussion

  • 6.3 Agreeing Outputs: The Summary and New Plan

  • 6.4 When Things Are Difficult

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Section 7: Revalidation Decisions and Avoiding Pitfalls

  • 7.1 How the Revalidation Decision Is Made

  • 7.2 Common Pitfalls

  • 7.3 Breaks, Part-Time Work and Portfolio Careers

  • 7.4 A Year-Round Routine

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Section 8: Conclusion and Key Points

  • Conclusion and Key Points

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Section 9: References and Quick Reference

  • References and Further Reading

  • Quick-Reference Guide

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Section 10: Reflection

  • Your reflective account