Use the resources within this toolkit to help you with your learning

You cannot do everything every year but make sure that you cover the main sections over each 5 year period to help gather sufficient evidence for  re-validation.

1. Make sure that your learning activities are guided by:

• Outstanding learning needs from last year (especially if you already have a PDP)

• Pre-Appraisal Questionnaire (you will need to provide evidence of these)

  • evidence of learning

  •  working in teams

  • working with colleagues

  • communications skills

  • patient feedback

  • critical events

  • complaints

  •  audit

  • review of prescribing or referrals,

  • clinical governance activities

• National Priorities

• Local priorities

• The seven subheadings of Good Medical Practice

• Use articles, papers and other resources from within this toolkit as a guide, stimulus or foundation to your learning

2. Complete the PDP template from the Pre-Appraisal Questionnaire (see the guide for how to do this)

3. Keep a proper record of your Learning Activities:

The Data collection section of the Toolkit enables you to do this

Fill out the learning template for each activity you do. This automatically creates a logbook and a detailed record of your learning by subject and learning type. It is designed to help you generate most of the information that you will need for appraisals and revalidation