PDP

The CAI Professional Development Programme is designed to promote self-directed and practice-based learning activities in line with the requirements of the professional competence schemes to be launched in 2011.  The programme aims to promote educational or professional activities directed towards developing the knowledge, skills, attitudes and personal effectiveness necessary for participant NCHDs and provides NCHDs with the means by which they can maintain and develop their professional competence in line with the Professional Competence Scheme’s requirements and domains of good professional practice. It will also encourage participants to plan, record and reflect on professional development needs.

Domains of Professional Practice

The Medical Council’s eight Domains of Good Professional Practice set out the principles on which good practice is founded. These principles together describe medical professionalism in action. Doctors must use their judgement to apply these principles to reflect on their practice and to identify areas of practice where they aim to stay up-to-date in their current posts and develop in the areas they wish to progress.  Therefore, NCHDs registered on this programme will be expected to pursue their professional development in line with their job plans and professional aspirations.

Within the Professional Development Programme NCHDs will be best placed to choose the activities that reflect their educational needs and will be expected to make a judgement on the value of a particular activity.  They will also be expected to map their activities against the relevant domain(s) of Good Professional Practice and ensure that the activities undertaken during the course of a five year cycle encompass all eight domains.