Undertake your CPD Category 3 following the RACP LIFT – Rapid-Fire Clinical Update: Sydney

This page brings together resources specifically designed for attendees at the RACP LIFT Rapid-Fire Clinical Update on Cardio-metabolic and Vascular Health. 

It has been developed to support your Category 3 – Measuring Outcomes CPD requirements by providing practical ideas and examples, including potential audit activities. 

How to use the resource: 

Explore the examples below and select an activity that is relevant to your practice. 

Select a single activity to complete as part of your Category 3 requirements. 

Complete the activity in your workplace or practice setting. 

Log your activity in your RACP MyCPD record and ensure you upload appropriate evidence of completion. 

You can use the audit template in your RACP CPD Handbook, or another tool that better suits your needs.  

Evolve and “Choosing Wisely” audit 

• Read your specialty’s Evolve ‘Top-Five’ recommendations on low-value care through Evolve for RACP specialties and Choosing Wisely for other medical college specialties. 
• Next, select a low-value practice that is relevant to your practice and conduct an audit using consecutive clinical notes, letters, or discharge summaries to see if that recommendation was followed. 
  
• Review the findings yourself, or with a colleague or your team. 
• Peer review activity: Discuss your findings at your departmental meeting and together develop recommendations for improvement.
  
• Finally, make a plan for improvement and set a date for re-audit in your Professional Development Plan (PDP).  

You can also share your findings with other physicians by emailing evolve@racp.edu.au. 

Investigations audit  

• Select a patient profile, for example those presenting with a specific set of symptoms. 
  
• Review your laboratory and bedside investigations choice of against best practice for your specialty. This should capture appropriate investigations, inappropriate investigations, and investigations not performed that were indicated.
  
• Review the findings yourself, with a colleague or with your team. 
  
• Peer review activity: Ask a colleague to do the same for a (de-identified) selection of their patients. Review each other’s choice of investigations against a best practice proforma and your expert opinions. Meet to discuss your findings and write three recommendations for each other. 
  
• Finally, make a plan for improvement and set a date for re-audit in your Professional Development Plan (PDP).  

Note: Your employer and/or State/National Health Department may have requirements in place that cover the surveying of staff, patients, families of patients, other clients and the reviewing of records and policies etc. If in doubt, please check as meeting these requirements is essential. 

Medication prescribing audits 

• Review your prescribing practice. Below are three audit ideas you may wish to use. Feel free to modify the ideas and templates to fit your practice. 
  
• Audit of current prescribing practice of a commonly used drug.
  
• Audit of low-value prescribing: This audit references your specialty’s Evolve ‘Top-Five’ recommendations where they include low-value prescribing.
  
• Prospective audit of a new drug: This audit involves measuring the changes you expect to see in patient outcomes when changes to therapy are made.
  
• Review the findings yourself, with a colleague, or with your team. 
  
• Finally, make a plan for improvement and set a date for re-audit in your Professional Development Plan (PDP).  

Note: Your employer and/or State/National Health Department may have requirements in place that cover the surveying of staff, patients, families of patients, other clients and the reviewing of records and policies. Always check to ensure you meet these requirements. 

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