Are you seeking ways to get CPD hours? RxTro can assist you find the best CPD providers to earn your CPD points.
The new CPD requirement for doctors in Australia has created a tremendous amount of stress for medical professionals.
A survey suggested that about 10% of doctors could not complete their mandatory CPD points in the year 2023. Many such individual surveys and statistics show a clear struggle among the GPs in Australia when it comes to fulfilling the need for continuing professional development.
However, are the things as bad as we portray?
What if we say a simple one-hour a week can make up for those ‘50 hours’ in a calendar year?
If you like the sound of that, then read on to learn about RxTro’s solution to the CPD challenges that have put many doctors in Australia through sleepless nights or working weekends.
The story so far.
While continuing professional development, or CPD, is a mandatory and great initiative to remain acquainted with all that’s happening in the medical field, it can put quite a strain on the doctors.
Since this has its benefits, the problem comes with charting out a plan to make this happen instead of running pillar to post and spending weekends to cater to the 50 mandatory CPD hours.
Some of the challenges that the doctors face include:
- Targeting anything and everything, such as seminars, symposiums, or events to get CPD points.
- Spending both money and their time attending these events—online or otherwise.
- No clarity on the accredited CPD courses.
- Learning not for professional development but to keep their registrations intact
The list is endless, and sadly, this has forced many above the age group of 55 years to take early retirements. With the GPs already stressed out the time commitments due to their busy schedule in the primary care clinics, the additional strain of looking out for CPD activities puts them on a back foot.
The question we need to ask is, are we ready to lose on those experienced GPs because of the CPD requirements for doctors, or can we find a simpler solution to this CPD dilemma?
One-hour-a-week CPD!
The 50 hours of mandated CPD for doctors might look like a challenge, but how about spending just an hour a week to make up those CPD points?
This is what the new CPD with RxTro programme proposes.
The idea is to make it easier for the GPs to get the mandated CPD hours and, at the same time, to create a stress-free environment for the clinics.
Here is how it will work:
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Hassle-free, no-cost CPD deliveries for Clinics
If you are a busy primary care clinic, your doctors would already be under constant stress dealing with multiple patients at a time. Added to the stress of CPD, and the constant lookout for ways to achieve it all may create quite a bit of a challenging situation for the doctors.
One way to ease this up is to provide one one-hour slot away from the patient times or peak hours of the clinic, where the doctors can clock in their CPD from the comfort of their clinics. Since it's going to be a no-cost option, it may be a win-win situation for both doctors and the clinics.
