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Domain A: knowledge, skills and performance<br />

Attribute 1: maintain your professional performance<br />

Explanatory notes<br />

Maintaining professional performance is both a necessary and continuous process due to medical,<br />

scientific and technological advances and changes in patient expectations. Realisation of these<br />

advances and meeting of those expectations by the profession as a whole, in the day to day practice of<br />

anaesthesia, pain medicine and intensive care, are dependent on individual doctors keeping up to date<br />

with new knowledge and skills and applying them locally and nationally. Individual commitment to<br />

this process requires planned and regular participation in the core, higher and advanced level areas of<br />

continuing professional development (CPD), and also regular review of clinical practice against current<br />

best practice and defined evaluation criteria.<br />

An important aspect of keeping up to date is knowledge of current legal, regulatory and professional<br />

codes which influence clinical and professional practice, e.g. controlled drug provision.<br />

Related guidelines and sources of information<br />

The General Medical Council<br />

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Guidance on CPD online (accessed 23 November 2009) www.gmc-uk.org/education.<br />

The Royal College of Anaesthetists<br />

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Continuing professional development guidelines (2nd edition), 2010 (in press).<br />

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Raising the standard: a compendium of audit recipes (2nd edition), 2006.<br />

Prepared by the Joint Committee on Good Practice | Page 9

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