How many hours Continuing Professional Development (CPD) will I need to complete in order to revalidate?
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) must be tailored to the specific needs and interests of individuals and their practice. It would not be appropriate for revalidation to set prescriptive requirements for all doctors about the number of hours of CPD they must undertake. However, revalidation does need to provide assurance that doctors are keeping up to date. Evidence of participation in appropriate CPD, as brought to appraisal, is one way of doing this. In developing the specialty standards for revalidation the medical Royal Colleges and Faculties have described participation in CPD as one of the ways in which doctors will be able to show that they are meeting the required standards. They currently require their members to complete 50 credits of CPD per annum and a total of 250 credits in a five-year revalidation cycle. This applies whether a doctor is full-time or part-time. You may find that participation in College or Faculty CPD schemes is helpful both in keeping up to date
