Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is a vital part of surgical practice, helping you reflect, improve, and maintain high standards of care. SurgicalPerformance has been built by surgeons, for surgeons, and is uniquely positioned to support you in meeting your CPD obligations across multiple categories.
RANZCOG Accreditation
SurgicalPerformance has been formally recognised by the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) as an accredited CPD activity.
Members can earn 5 hours of CPD in total by entering 30 surgical cases into the platform:
3 hours in Outcomes Measurement
2 hours in Performance Review
This represents around 10% of the total CPD requirement and contributes to categories that are often more difficult to fulfil.
Support for Other Colleges
While no other college has yet formally accredited SurgicalPerformance, the platform naturally supports a wide range of CPD activities that apply across all surgical specialties.
Here’s how you can map SurgicalPerformance to typical CPD categories:
1. Self-Audit & Performance Review
Entering and reviewing your cases provides a structured self-audit of your surgical practice, providing a robust dataset of your own longer-term surgical performance.
INSIGHTS allows you to compare your outcomes with anonymised peers in O&G, and easily visualise your own performance data across a range of surgical outcomes, supporting PR and benchmarking.
2. Patient Care Audits & Improvement Plans
Generate reports from your data to conduct patient care audits.
Use your outcomes data to design and document quality improvement plans within your practice.
3. Research & Reporting
Export anonymised data to support research projects, presentations, or publications.
Use SurgicalPerformance data to explore trends, outcomes, and surgical themes for academic contribution.
4. Patient Feedback & Reflection
The PROMS feature collects Patient Reported Outcome Measures at standardised intervals.
These insights help you reflect on patient recovery, satisfaction, and surgical pathways, which can be used to meet reflective practice requirements.
5. Educational Activities
Participation in SurgicalPerformance Fireside Chats can be recorded as an educational CPD activity.
These sessions provide peer learning, discussion of surgical themes, and exposure to new ideas in patient care.
Tips for Maximising CPD with SurgicalPerformance
Check your college framework: Each college structures CPD differently, but most include self-audit, practice evaluation, patient feedback, and educational activities.
Keep records: Save or download reports, benchmarking graphs, and PROMS summaries for CPD audit evidence.
Engage across categories: Don’t limit yourself to outcomes measurement, use the platform for audits, research, reflection, and education.
Summary
RANZCOG members: Earn 5 CPD hours for entering 30 cases (3 hours in Outcomes Measurement, 2 hours in Performance Review).
All surgeons: SurgicalPerformance enables CPD across key categories — self-audit, performance review, patient care audits, improvement plans, research, patient feedback, and education.
Practical benefit: Many of these categories are among the most difficult for surgeons to complete, making SurgicalPerformance a powerful tool to efficiently meet CPD requirements.