Internal

NB: Requirements for the 2020 2021 PCS year are 25 CPD credits only. Please click here for more information.

Practice Evaluation & Development

To view guidelines on meeting your annual requirement for internal CPD, please click here.

20 credits per year minimum

• Case presentation: presenting particular patient scenarios to inform others about approaches to care/treatment.
• Chart review: Review of patient chart(s) to examine and reflect on management to date with a view to quality improvement of practice.
• Clinical case discussion: discussion with another healthcare professional regarding clinical issues and approaches to a patient's treatment and care
• Clinical club: forming a club with other GP colleagues for regular clinical case discussions
• Clinical risk meeting: e.g. where a GP/GP practice develop a plan to deal with seasonal epidemics 
• CME Small Group meetings: participation in a CME Small Group can be recorded for 2 internal and 2 external CPD credits
• Committee participation: these can be recorded for 1 internal CPD credit per meeting (to a maximum of 6 per year)
• Grand rounds 
• Locum handover: discussing patient cases, files and updates on the practice
• Patient survey: where a survey is conducted to obtain patient feedback; click here for template 
• PCT/HSE meeting: template available on www.icgp.ie/pcstemplates
• Peer review group: where patient cases/issues/practice issues are presented to peers who provide advice and suggest alternative approaches to care and treatment. 
• Practice-based meeting: to discuss patient issues, attendance at courses & how to implement findings to improve patient care. To assist you with recording these, please see the template on www.icgp.ie/pcstemplates
• Practice Improvements from GPs: please click here for more information
• Professional Development Plan (PDP): please see www.icgp.ie/pdp for more details 
• Quality improvement process: review of an approach to care/treatment, etc. and implementation of outcomes
• Significant Event Analysis: template available on www.icgp.ie/pcstemplates

Remember! If you take learning back from a meeting and make subsequent changes to your practice as a result, you can record this for internal credits.

NB: Don't forget to always retain evidence to support your recorded activities. When recording internal CPD to your ePortfolio, you will need to enter a description (min. 50 characters) into the description box. 

Evidence includes, at a minimum, the topics reviewed/discussed, the number of people in attendance (where relevant) and any practice changes made as a result of the activity. Evidence should be added to your ePortfolio or retained on file for a minimum of six PCS years (current year and five previous).