CPD
on. IED members not only attend training
sessions, webinars and workshops, but
also often run those events for other
designers and engineers – that is the
nature of the role. In addition, members
read journals, write articles, contribute to
blogs, train colleagues, attend exhibitions
etc. All of these activities are relevant to
CPD and can be recorded as such. And
that gets us nicely onto the thorny issue
of recording CPD.
HOW TO RECORD YOUR CPD
The biggest bug-bear with regards to CPD
is not the ‘doing’, but the ‘recording’.
Some of our younger members and those
who benefi t from structured training in the
workplace are used to maintaining a log
of activities that they complete during the
year – these lucky few then have a ready
source of material to submit, if and when
they are asked to produce a CPD record
for any given period.
The key to recording the CPD is to do
‘little and often’ – keep a fi le specifi cally
for CPD and as soon as you have
completed the course, read the journal,
written the blog or article or given some
training to a colleague, write it down, scan
the completion certifi cate and note what
you have learnt from the activity. If you are
a registered user of the IED’s CPD system
(mycareerpath – free to use for all IED
members, contact HQ for the details) you
can use the online form there, or there is
a pro forma available on the IED website
which you can download and use to record
your activities.
RETIRED MEMBERS
We often get questions from retired
members who are worried that, if they do
not complete CPD, they will have their
professional registration taken from them.
If this is you, please do not worry. The
regulations on CPD state that records are
sought from ‘active’ members – ie, those
still in employment and/or those who
volunteer in a role for the IED. Therefore,
if you are an ‘active’ retired member who
volunteers for the Institution in some
capacity (such as sitting on a Committee,
writing articles for the journal, conducting
interviews), then you will be required
to submit a CPD record (which will, of
course, include all the above activities
and relevant training you have done to
support them). If you are fully retired and
do not carry out any voluntary work for
the Institution, you will not be required to
submit a CPD record – if you are randomly
selected to do so, simply let us know that
you are fully retired and we will amend
our database to ensure that you are
not included in any future selections for
monitoring.
RANDOM TESTING
Each year, we at IED HQ do a random
selection of 10% of registered members
and ask for CPD records for the preceding
12 months. The Membership Committee
then reviews 10% of those selected
to look at the variety of development
undertaken, the level of learning gained
and the refl ection of the development
against learning outcomes. The results
for 2018 are shown in the box below.
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SAMPLING CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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100
80
60
40
20
This report provides a summary of the responses to the continuing
professional development (CPD) records for review for 2018.
The consultation was open for four months, with 10% of registered IED
members (108) asked to send in their CPD reports for the last year.
We received 73 written responses.
The vast majority of responses were submitted online, using either
the formal CPD questionnaire or individual formats. The membership
committees’ comments regarding responses from members indicated
that, overall, the CPD records received were very positive. However,
a few responses needed more guidance, such as:
● CPD needs to show outcome of training and purpose of development
● CPD should be about the development for one year only.
The graph, right, shows the CPD responses for 2018.
■ Total members sampled
■ Number of responses
■ Number not responded
Kim Clarke, Membership Offi cer CEnv CTPD Members
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