Service to the profession - CPD allowances

[Patrick Kelliher]

Debbie

I was logging my CPD the other day and was dismayed to see there is no longer any explicit field for service to the profession. I understand I can still log service to the profession as CPD but that I need to demonstrate a learning outcome and be prepared for this to be challenged as part of any audit.

I find this very frustrating. I devote a considerable amount of time every year to the profession: the 11 hours of working party meetings and other service I logged in my CPD record was a significant underestimate of how much time I spent on profession business (I spent at least three times as much on a joint venture survey with ORIC which fell through and which I did not count). The least the profession can do is to allow some of this to count towards my CPD requirements without me worrying about whether it will pass muster as part of an audit. I appreciate that not all my CPD can come from this source, but what was wrong with the old arrangement of allowing up to 8 hours to count ?

To my mind, this shows a lack of consideration for volunteers by the profession. I am seriously considering cutting back on the time spent volunteering for the profession.

PS How can you tell how many hours people have spent on service to the profession if there is no longer an explicit field for this in CPD records ? It strikes me a retrograde step to lose this MI.

[Dr John Pollock]

Patrick I have considerable sympathy with your thoughts here, I am in the same boat with work I did for the AP.  I will contact you to discuss but not through google groups as I thought we had suspended this given that all posts are in the public domain. John 

This message has been sent from my iPhone as I am out of office. Please excuse any typographical or autocorrect 

errors !

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