Committee for Continuing Professional Development

Responsible directly to the Education Committee, the role of the Committee for Continuing Professional Development is to design, promote and administer the College's Continuing Professional Development Program, ensuring high standards of psychiatric practice.

Responsibilities

• Attend meetings and teleconferences of the committee as and when required
• Represent the views of their jurisdiction (for jurisdictional members)
• Provide advice on the development of CPD policies and programs, including remediation and refresher programs
• Provide advice on the alignment of individual member’s CPD activities with the CPD program as required
• Provide advice and approval of deferment of CPD obligations and variations to CPD programs
• Promote the CPD program
• Respond to out of session email requests for advice and approvals.

Chair 

The current Chair is Prof Richard Harvey.

The Committee is represented on the Education Committee by the Chair.

Meeting frequency

The CCPD typically meets 6 times per calendar year:

• 2 face-to-face all day meetings
• 4 online meetings (up to 2 hours duration per meeting).

During February to July of each year, additional teleconferences may be scheduled to provide advice to CPD staff for the purposes of finalising CPD claims and the annual audit of CPD records.

Regulations

For a copy of the Committee Regulations, please contact governance@ranzcp.org.