CPD Activity Examples

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CPD Activity Examples

Simplified Examples of CPD Activities

Please expand the below segments to view suggested activity types per MBA CPD category

Educational Activity Examples
  • Coaching, as a provider (including preparation time)
  • College Board involvement
  • College Committee involvement
  • College Working Party involvement
  • Conferences, attendance of (including CosDoc)
  • Courses, attendance of
  • CPD meetings
  • Demonstrator, as a provider (including preparation time)
  • Examinations, attendance of
  • Examining of trainees, medical students
  • Journal clubs / Grand rounds
  • Lecturer, as a provider (including preparation time)
  • Lectures, attendance of 
  • Meetings, other
  • Mentoring of trainees, medical students, PhD students
  • Mentoring, as a provider (including preparation time)
  • Online Learning: webinars, learning platforms, live, audio, video
  • Other educational activities
  • PhD studies/formal postgraduate studies 
  • Practice visit, as an observer
  • Practice visit, as a host
  • Presenting, as a provider (including preparation time) 
  • Publishing, as an author (including preparation time) 
  • Readings (including The Cosmetic Physician) and clinical journals /information
  • Research
  • Self-assessment programs e.g. MKSAP
  • Seminars, attendance of
  • Supervision of trainees, medical students, PhD students
  • Teaching
  • Trainer, as a provider (including preparation time)
  • Training, as a receiver of
  • Undertaking College educational roles
  • Workshops, attendance of
Performance Review Activity Examples
  • Creating/maintaining a PDP (professional development plan)
  • Creating/maintaining a self-care plan
  • Annual performance appraisal of your practice by a peer
  • Annual conversation with a colleague focused on review of your practice
  • Regular Practice Review (form template)
  • Peer review
  • Peer review of clinical and/or professional practice
  • Peer review of records/correspondence/reports
  • Peer review of supervision
  • Peer review of educational activities
  • Peer review of journal articles submitted for publication
  • Peer review of professional and specialty specific competencies and activities – leadership
  • Peer review of professional and specialty specific competencies and activities – partnership building
  • Peer review of professional and specialty specific competencies and activities – stakeholder management
  • Peer review of professional and specialty specific competencies and activities – policy development
  • Peer review of professional and specialty specific competencies and activities – writing grants and publications
  • Peer review of communication including reports, lectures, information leaflets and website material
  • Peer review of cases
  • Peer review of critical incidents
  • Peer review of safety and quality reviews
  • Peer review of outbreak management
  • Peer review of workplace incidents
  • Peer review of laboratory safety
  • Multisource feedback using validated tools and processes
  • Patient feedback / experience studies
  • Receiving mentoring or coaching, for example through the Mentor Match program
  • Other activities that involve reviewing performance
  • Self review of total personal workload
Measuring Outcome Activity Examples
  • Personal workload survey
  • Practice/clinical audits
  • Audit of adherence to standards, guidelines, procedures
  • Audit of practice against relevant EVOLVE recommendations
  • Audit of medicolegal reports
  • Audit of cultural safety/health equity
  • Audit of bullying/harrassment
  • Audit of records
  • Audit of recommendations update
  • Audit of worker assessment reports
  • Audit of workplace assessment reports
  • Audit of supervision
  • Audit of standards of confidentiality
  • Audit of site remediation
  • Audit of effectiveness of stakeholder consultation; education sessions delivered; communicable disease notifications advised on; completed investigations, e.g. outbreak, environmental risk, workplace risk
  • Audit of compliance with key legislation
  • Audit of funding success
  • Incident reporting/monitoring, e.g. mortality and morbidity reviews
  • Comparison of individual/team data with local, institutional or regional data sets
  • Institution audits, e.g. college accreditation, hospital accreditation or immunisation program outcomes
  • Analysis and reflection on health outcomes data as part of research related activities
  • Clinicopathological correlation meetings
  • Contribution to evaluation/development of an endorsed policy in the workplace (where the contribution is based on review of data/measurement of outcomes)
  • Development of new legislation (where the development is based on a review of health data outcomes)
  • Other activities that involve measuring outcomes