2010 CPD Grant: Call For Applications
As one of the key initiatives set up by the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the CPD Grant is designed to promote and support education initiatives for Fellows’ Continuing Professional Development.
The grant serves as a seed fund to provide financial assistance for the development of educational activities involving a community of Fellows that will contribute to the future continuing professional development of Fellows of the RACP.
The nature and complexity of proposed activities will vary and therefore the grant itself may not cover all costs involved.
An amount of up to $5,000 will generally be approved for any application. However, this may vary at the discretion of the CPD Committee, funds available and the number of applications. We are delighted to announce that the total amount of grant funding the College is making available for the 2010 year is $40,000 for Australia and $15,000 for New Zealand.
All Fellows of the College from the Divisions, Chapters and Faculties in Australia and New Zealand are eligible to apply for a grant.
Please Note: The funding is intended to support organisation of CPD activities for a community of Fellows eg. regional scientific meetings, updates, etc, and therefore is not available to individual Fellow’s CPD undertakings.
Applications will be assessed according to the following principles, with precedence given to those that align closely to the following;
- Exhibit innovation in content, design and/or method of delivery
- Support as many Fellows as possible
- Focus on assisting those who are unable to access the more usual channels of CPD
- Provide the College with an enduring continuing education resource
- Provide value for attendees and contribute to their continuing professional development
For more information or to obtain a copy of the 2010 CPD Grant Application Kit, please contact the CPD unit of the Education Deanery via email mycpd@racp.edu.au or phone 02 8247 6239.
Closing date for applications is Wednesday 31, March 2010. Unfortunately applications received beyond this date cannot be considered.
2011 Specialist Training Program Funding
Applications are now open for 2011 Specialist Training Program (STP) funding. STP was previously known as the Expanded Specialist Training Program or the Outer Metropolitan Specialist Trainee Program.
The program provides funding for specialist trainees (including overseas trained doctors and specialist international medical graduates) to train in alternative settings, in a way that complements the training provided in traditional settings. The STP provides funding up to a level of $100,000 (ex GST) per FTE.
Settings may include:
- Rotations to private hospitals
- Clinics and day surgeries
- Specialists’ rooms
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
- Non-clinical settings (such as simulated learning environments)
- Publicly funded facilities that provide training not available in major teaching hospitals
Identified priority areas are:
- Demonstration of meeting an educational imperative
- Demonstration of quality training issues of supervision, infrastructure etc.
- Innovation
- Short and long term workforce needs: Rural or regional settings, Generalist specialist training pathway, Chronic disease or Indigenous health
Applications concerning physician trainees require RACP support and will need to be forwarded to the College by Monday 15, February 2010 for assessment and submission to the Commonwealth by Monday 1, March 2010. Proposed training sites will also be required to obtain RACP accreditation during 2010.
The RACP contact is estp@racp.edu.au.
Realising The Health Benefits Of Work
The Faculty invites you to give feedback on this important position statement. Specifically, comments are welcome on:
- What you consider are the most positive aspects of the document,
- What you consider are the least postive aspects of the document and,
- What aspects of the document you recommend changing.
Please take this opportunity to send in your own comments by email, letter or fax.
All submissions are due by Friday 12, February 2010.
Please email your comments to: andrew.messner@racp.edu.au.
Dean's Welcoming Meetings
The Dean, representatives of College Education Committees and College Senior Members would be delighted if you can join us for an evening of discussion and workshops covering:
- PREP Program and Basic Training,
- PREP Program for Advanced Training and,
- Educational Tools.
This is your chance to learn more about your roles, the PREP Program and tools, network with your colleagues and ask questions about your training experience.
The meetings will be conducted as of 12 February until 15 March 2010 from 6.00pm until 9.00pm. See Trainees Cafe for the date in your city. Please note that any changes to the schedule will be updated in the Trainees' Cafe.
An Invitations and the Program of each event will be sent to trainees, supervisors, DPEs/DPTs/DPPTs in each state by the relevant College State office in due course.
Additional information will be available at the Trainees' Cafe and on the College Announcements page. For AFOEM trainees, use the same login credentials as you would with the AFOEM website.
We look forward to meeting you and hope you will enjoy the evening.
Australian Medical Review Officer Training Course
If you, as medical practitioner, are involved in any way in the review of workplace alcohol and other drug testing eg for the aviation, transport, petrochemical industries, this course will equip you to perform your role more competently and by examination immediately following the course, you will be eligible to become an inaugural Australian certified MRO.
Places will be limited. Further details, registration forms accommodation etc will be available in the New Year.
For further information now or to register your interest, contact Kevin Sleigh on 0412 553 390 or by email sleigh@ssc.net.au.
Supervisor, Trainees & Potential Supervisors Workshop
Supervisors, potential Supervisors, and Trainees of the Faculty are invited to attend our upcoming Supervisor Workshop in conjunction with the 2010 Faculty Training Day: Sunday 21, March 2010 (AMREP, Commercial Rd, Melbourne, VIC).
The purpose of the workshop is:
- to clarify expectations within the two-way interaction between supervisors and trainees,
- to build the abilities of supervisors and potential supervisors to foster educational endeavour and handle common related problems, and
- to foreshadow likely and planned developments in trainee education.
Supervisors attending this workshop are entitled to complimentary registration for the 2010 Faculty Training Day.
Please RSVP to GTH Events.
RACP Elections
The College elections will be held during the first half of 2010. In an effort to simplify and streamline the process, these elections will be conducted electronically.
A call for nominations for a number of positions will be circulated in February 2010. This will include RACP President-elect; AFOEM President-elect, as well as other elected positions on the AFOEM Council.
This is an opportunity for Fellows and Trainees to become more involved in the important work of the College and we hope that a number of Fellows/Trainees will consider nominating for these positions.
Further updates will be included in future editions of the E Newsletter.
Please ensure that you keep the College informed of your current email address.
RACP Workforce Survey
The RACP has launched the 2010 Workforce Survey.
The College workforce information to substantiate its strategic approaches to workforce policy. We cannot even think about sensible workforce planning if we don’t have baseline data so we strongly urge you to ensure you are counted. The online version should take five minute to complete and is available at in the link provided below.
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