Professional Development Points
The Anatomy of Complications Workshops are accredited by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and participants are eligible for the following through the CPD Online Program:
- Standard workshop – 14 PD points for attendance the within the Clinical Expertise Domain
- Laparoscopic workshop – 14 PD points for attendance within the Clinical Expertise Domain
Participants and facilitators are eligible for the same amount of points.
The College and health care institutions are increasingly appreciating the value of clinical audits in the practice of both institutions and individual practitioners. To this end, the use of programs that make the capture and analysis of information for audits easy and accurate are invaluable. Professor Andreas Obermair, a gynaecological oncologist from Queensland (and past Anatomy of Complications Workshop Facilitator), has developed one such program. SurgicalPerformance is web based surgical audit software which enables individual surgeons to document their cases (in Gynaecology, Obstetrics and Colposcopy) and to access anonymous comparison reports for the purpose of benchmarking. It also allows anonymous discussion in forums.
RANZCOG is supportive of this program. For every 12 cases documented in SurgicalPerformance, eligible fellows of the College can self-claim 1 PAR point in the PR & CRM category. In addition, this program can be used to capture data for other audits.