Shaping Up To Revalidation

Revalidation is on its way and Conference Plus is happy to help you fulfil requirements for certain domains.

As you are probably aware by now GPs licensed by the GMC will also be required every 5 years to be recertified by the RCGP in order to achieve revalidation.

Your annual appraisal is critical to this process and in the 4 domains of evidence required (Knowledge, Skills & Performance; Safety & Quality; Communication, Partnership & Teamwork; Maintaining Trust) the first two will be enhanced by a course with Conference Plus.

A credit system has been proposed to assess the maintenance of professional performance:

  • All of the Royal Colleges are adopting a system of earning 50 learning credits per year (250 over the five year period)
  • A Credit is a unit of CPD activity
  • RCGP system is based on the “outcomes of learning” rather than the time spent
  • Number of credits based on level of “impact” and “challenge”
  • Credits will be self-assessed but will be verified by the assessor
  • Attending a chronic disease course, then doing an audit, producing and introducing a protocol and re-auditing might be worth for example 15 credits

Conference Plus could be a valuable resource to help you achieve some of your desired Development Needs from your Personal Development Plan. Just choose from the extensive array of topics in our Academic Programmes.

In forthcoming conferences there will be sessions on:

  • Chronic Disease Management
    HIV Update - Dr Rimi Shah (Rome)
    Prescribing in the Elderly - Dr Clifford Lisk (Rome)
  • Acute Disease
    Delirium - Dr Clifford Lisk (Rome)
  • Primary Care Medicine
    Are you fit to travel? - Dr George Kassianos (Florence)
    Advising travellers at risk - Dr David Gaskill (Burma)
    Delivering primary care in the developing world - Dr David Gaskill (Burma)
  • Dermatology
    Common Problems in GP Dermatology - Dr Riadh Darwood (Tallinn)
  • Paediatrics
    UTIs in Children - Dr Andy Raffles (Tallinn)
    Autism & ADHD
    The Sick Child
    Pubertal Delay
  • Respiratory Medicine
    TB - Dr Dean Creer (Tallinn)
    Community Acquired Pneumonia
    COPD Update
    Understanding Spirometry
  • Cardiology
    Issues in Statin Prescribing in Primary Care - Dr George Kassianos (Florence)
  • GenitoUrinary Medicine
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Dr Rimi Shah (Florence)
    HIV Update
  • Musculoskeletal Medicine
    Sports Injuries - Dr Roger Wolman (Rome)
    Exercise is Medicine
  • Care of the Elderly
    Why Older People Fall? - Dr Clifford Lisk (Rome)
  • Neurology
    Parkinson's Disease - Dr James Rakshi (Florence) and Dr Nigel Hyman (Burma)
    The 10 minute Neurological Examination
    TIA & Stroke
    Epilepsy - Dr Nigel Hyman (Burma)
    Developments in neurodegenerative disease - Dr Nigel Hyman (Burma)
  • Gastroenterology
    Functional Bowel Disease - Prof Mike Kamm (Burma)
    Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Prof Mike Kamm (Burma)
  • Palliative Care
    Pain Control - Dr Faye Gishen (Florence)
    Difficult Symptom Control
    Ethical Issues
  • Obstetrics and Gynaecology
    Pelvic pain and endometrics - Dr Paul Fogarty (Burma)
    Gynaecological malignancy - Dr Paul Fogarty (Burma)
    Developments in Obstetric management - Dr Paul Fogarty (Burma)

Is there something else you want but it is not here? Let us know and we may well be able to incorporate it into a future conference.

Become a registered user of Conference Plus presentations to access all the Lectures of 2010 together with Learning Points and Suggestions for Impact in Practice. As well as the above the following is included:

  • Primary Care Medicine
    Change of Government, change of tack? - Prof Chris Ham
  • Gynaecology
    Molar Pregnancies - Professor Michael Seckl
    Urogynaecology - Mr Andrew Hextall
  • Paediatrics
    Paediatric Gastroenterology - Dr Warren Hyer
  • Respiratory Medicine
    TB - Dr Dean Creer
    Community Acquired Pneumonia
    COPD Update
    Lung Cancer - Prof Michael Seckl
  • Cardiology
    Ischaemic Heart Disease - Dr Anthony Nathan
    Cardiac Failure
    Arrhythmias
    Update in Cardiology - Dr John Bayliss
  • Urology
    PSA: where next? - Mr Mark Emberton
    Scrotal lumps & bumps
    UroGynaecology - Mr Andrew Hextall
    Germ Cell Tumours - Professor Michael Seckl
  • Haematology
    Haematology: what the GP needs to know - Prof Graham Jackson

You become a Registered User of Conference Plus Presentations automatically for 1 year by attending a conference as a delegate. Alternatively you can pay an annual fee of £19.99 to access this information that will provide over 80 hours of lectures and therefore a minimum of 80 credits for the year. The suggestions for Impact in Practice will provide the opportunity to increase the credits.

Please click here to view a sample section from a recent "New Evidence that has Impact" update.

For more information about registration please contact us at info@conferenceplus.co.uk.