Some Fellows no longer practise clinically and wish to retain their vocational scope. RNZCUC has a non-clinical recertification programme, which draws on the structures and requirements of the MCNZ, RACMA, and RNZCUC’s standard CPD.
Per MCNZ requirements the programme must include the following:
- Professional development plan
- 10 hours of peer review per annum
- Peer review may occur at meetings with peers, where peers witness or discuss your non-clinical work and provide feedback, during or after the meeting. RNZCUC recommends that non-clinical urgent care practitioners form a peer review group for this purpose.
- Non-clinical audit
- An audit could comprise multi-reviewer feedback on performance, for example, an assessment of a year’s meetings.
- 20 hours of CME per annum
- CME can include the following:
- attendance at relevant educational conferences
- courses and workshops
- self-directed learning programmes and learning diaries
- assessments designed to identify learning needs in areas such as procedural skills, diagnostic skills or knowledge
- journal reading
- CPD may also include
- examining candidates for College examinations
- supervising or mentoring others
- teaching
- publication in medical journals and texts
- research
- committee meetings with an educational content, such as guideline development
- giving expert advice on clinical matters
- presentations to scientific meetings – working as an assessor or reviewer for the Council
- CME can include the following:
As with RACMA; CPD, audit and peer review may be combined. From: http://www.mcnz.org.nz/assets/News-and-Publications/Booklets/Continuing-Professional-Development.pdf