What Do You Need to Know About Professional Competence

Overview

Based on what we've learned from providing support to doctors since 2011, we know that maintaining a good record of professional competence activities comes down to organising your information.

If you have recently enrolled on a Professional Competence Scheme, or haven't had an opportunity to bring your record up to date for a while, here is some advice to help you get started.

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Tips to Get You Started

Plan your Professional Competence activities for the year

From 1 May 2025 the new Professional Competence Framework requires a Professional Development Plan.

Find out more here:  Planning CPD

Record your CPD (Continuing Professional Development) activities

The activities you need to record remain the same, they have been recategorised  in a more meaningful way

• Planning
• Practice Review
• Work-Based Learning
• Accredited Continuing Education (CE)

Find out more here: New CPD category names

Map your activities to the 8 Domains of Good Professional Practice

The Medical Council's Eight Domains of Good Practice set out the principles on which good practice is founded.

Visit: The 8 Domains of Good Professional Practice

Keep your ePortfolio up to date

The Professional Competence year runs between 1 May and 30 April every year. To facilitate doctors who attend activities in the last few days before 30 April, we always allow a short "grace period" after 30 April to give time for last-minute activities to be recorded before ePortfolio is closed to generate Annual Statements of Participation.

However, we strongly recommend that you log in regularly to update your activities, Doing this will prevent last-minute errors, and gives us time to support you if you come across anything you need help with.

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