Supporting Your MainPro Program

1. Supporting Your MainPro Program Office of CME

2. Supporting Your MainPro Program • Realities of Life-long Learning in Medical Practice • You arecontinuously improving your patient care based on self-evaluation and lifelong learning • It is not easy to choose among the many opportunities available to ensure you spend your CPD time wisely. • A plan might help. • Planning your Continuing Professional Development activities • Step 1 Assess yourself and your practice to identify gaps or problems that you want to address • Step 2 Be aware of learning opportunities • Step 3 Make choices of learning activities that will keep you up-to-date and support the changes you want to make • Step 4 Keep track of what you are doing including the impact of each activity

3. Supporting Your MainPro Program • The CFPC Maintenance of Proficiency (MainPro) programs suggest a wide range of continuing professional development(CPD) activities to help you meet the MainPro requirements. • The Office of CME offers the following guidance to help you make the best choices for you. • Choices • Assessment: These activities provide data to individuals or groups of physicians. The information can be related to your knowledge or performance across a broad range of professional practice domains. This feedback enables you to identify your needs and areas for development relevant to your professional practice. • Programs designed by others: These learning activities are the most predominant type of CME/CPD. They are developed by planning committees based on their understanding of what you need to know or be able to do. They may be live or not and may or may not be accredited. • Self developed activities: You can choose learning activities that you initiate to address a question, problem or increase awareness of new evidence, perspectives or findings that will be relevant to your professional practice

4. Assessment Activities • These activities provide data to individuals or groups of physicians. The information can be related to your knowledge or performance across a broad range of professional practice domains. This feedback helps you identify needs and areas for development relevant to your professional practice • Can help you choose the CPD activities most relevant to you • May focus on knowledge or clinical performance • Contribute to your MainPro credits (Can be M1,M2 or Mainpro C) • For details about obtaining credits for these activities, go to: www.cfpc.ca/creditforms or www.cfpc.ca/CPD/ linking_learning_to_practice • Examples of Assessment Activities • Chart or Practice Audit with Feedback • Multi-source feedback • Simulation • Educational/administrative assessments • Knowledge Tests with Feedback • eg.See Self Learning Modules at www.cfpc.ca/sli

5. Programs Designed By Others Programs designed by others are the most predominant type of CME/CPD activity. These very popular activities are developed by planning committees based ontheir understanding of what youneed to know or be able to do.

6. Self Developed Activities • You may choose learning activities that you initiate to address a question, problem or increase awareness of new evidence, perspectives or findings that will be relevant to your professional practice • Educational research indicates that adults…”Learn best when responsible for planning/conducting their own educational activities (self directed). (Kaufman 2003) • The CFPC has many options for you to obtain credits through self developed activities

7. Self Developed Activities You may choose learning activities that you initiate to address a question, problem or increase awareness of new evidence, perspectives or findings that will be relevant to your professional practice

8. Tips for Keeping Track of Your CPD Activities • Create a record keeping system that is integrated into your daily calendar and a file for records of attendance • 2. Go to www.cfpc.ca/ReportCredits/ • you can report activities at any time • use on-line system, fax or email