Supervised Clinical Attachment
Supervised Clinical Attachments (SCAs) are designed to provide an individualised learning
experience and are an active, hands-on mode of learning, where the examples, scenarios
and problems are real cases.
Checklist
The supervisor was a health professional with highly developed skills in a specific area
Minimum of 10 hours of contact with the supervisor
Name and details of the supervisor have been recorded
Has between 3 and 5 clear and measurable learning outcomes
At least 1 learning outcome addresses a systems based approach to patient safety
Mapped to the Curriculum and Domains of general practice
Individual quality improvement reflection response has been completed
Further information
Please contact your Program Coordinator in your local faculty or refer to the QI&CPD
Program Handbook for further information regarding:
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supervised clinical attachments
quality improvement
RACGP Curriculum and Domains of general practice
specific requirements
training grants.
Please email or mail the completed form to your state faculty QI&CPD unit. Address details
can be found at Your RACGP or log in to My CPD on the RACGP website.
SUPERVISED CLINICAL ATTACHMENT
Name:
RACGP QI&CPD number:
Phone:
Activity title:
Total hours of educational
content:
Activity must be a minimum of 10 hours.
Activity start date:
Activity completion date:
E-learning
URL
Delivery mode:
Blended learning
URL
Face to face
Please indicate the post code or mark if attended overseas
Post code
Overseas
Other (please explain)
Please attach any other information that is relevant to the assessment of the application
ACTIVITY SUMMARY
Describe your activity
ACTIVITY MOTIVATION
What motivated you to
participate in this activity?
Build on my existing knowledge and/or skills in this area
This is a new area in my practice
Near miss analysis
Feedback from patients
To meet legislative requirement
Review of existing systems
Improve safety strategies for staff and patients in practice
Other (please explain)
LEARNING OUTCOMES AND REFLECTION
What did you hope to gain as a result of participating in
this activity? List 3–5 learning outcomes that you
want to take back to your practice as a result of this
activity, with at least one that addresses systems
based patient safety.
Reflection: Reflecting on each learning outcome,
what did you achieve, how will this impact on your
practise?
Systems based patient safety learning outcome
SESSION SUMMARIES, or attach details of sessions
Date
Key features of presentation
Key Learning
ACTIVITY IMPROVEMENT
In what ways could this activity have been improved?
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT REFLECTION
CHANGES IN YOUR PRACTICE
What changes did you implement in your practice as a result of this activity?
You may like to think about:
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Updated medical software to better manage patients’ records (referrals, recalls etc)
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Reviewed patients’ data using an audit tool
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Coordinated team care approach with a range of health, community and disability services to plan and facilitate
optimal patient care (The RACGP Standards for general practices (4th edition) Standard 1.6 – criterion 1.6.1)
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Introduced clinical risk management systems to enhance the quality and safety of patient care (The RACGP Standards for
general practices (4th edition) Standard 3.1 – criterion 3.1.2)
MONITORING THESE CHANGES
How do you monitor these changes?
You may like to think about:
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Conduct regular practice staff meetings to gather information and updates on the outcomes of these changes
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Create a monitoring guideline (including a template) and staff roster for recording the outcomes of these changes
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Develop roles and responsibilities for practice staff that includes monitoring and recording the outcomes of these
changes
EVALUATION
What evaluation process do you use to measure these changes?
You may like to think about:
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Review the outcomes regularly against the set standards or targeted outcomes
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Seek and respond to patients’ feedback on their experience of our/my practice (The RACGP Standards for general
practices (4th edition) Standard 2.1 – criterion 2.1.2)
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Measure changes using an appropriate checklist
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Compare ‘before and after’ patient data using audit tools
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Conduct regular updates and case-based discussions during team meeting
CURRICULUM MATRIX
Please mark the curriculum area(s) relevant to the activity mapped against the educational domain(s)
Domains
Curriculum Statements
General statements
Common training outcomes
Philosophy and foundation of general
practice
People and their populations
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
health
Communication
skills and the
patient-doctor
relationship
Applied
professional
knowledge and
skills
Population
health and the
context of
general practice
Professional
and ethical role
Organisational
and legal
dimensions
Aged care
Children and young people’s health
Disability
Doctor’s health
Genetics
Men’s health
Multicultural health
Population health and public health
Rural general practice
Women’s health
Domains
Curriculum Statements
Communication
skills and the
patient-doctor
relationship
Applied
professional
knowledge and
skills
Population
health and the
context of
general practice
Professional
and ethical role
Organisational
and legal
dimensions
Applied
professional
knowledge and
skills
Population
health and the
context of
general practice
Professional
and ethical role
Organisational
and legal
dimensions
Presentations
Acute serious illness and trauma
Chronic conditions
Dermatology
Drug and alcohol medicine
Eye and ear medicine
Mental health
Musculoskeletal medicine
Occupational medicine
Oncology
Pain management
Palliative care
Sexual health
Sports medicine
Domains
Curriculum Statements
Communication
skills and the
patient-doctor
relationship
Processes of general practice
Critical thinking and research
Undifferentiated conditions
E-health
Multidisciplinary care
Integrative medicine
Quality and safety
Practice management
Procedural skills
Quality use of medicines
Teaching, mentoring and leadership
in general practice
Other: please supply further
information
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
To be eligible as a Specific requirement Accredited Activity, content must represent more than 50% of the total activity
Anaesthetics
Focussed psychological strategy skills training
Acupuncture
Focussed psychological strategy CPD
Breast medicine
Mental health skills training
Surgery
Mental health CPD
Cultural safety training
Mental health core module
Cultural awareness training
Mental health clinical enhancement module
Women’s health
Radiology
Please attach evidence documentation
TRAINING GRANT ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible for a training grant the activity must be a minimum of 6 hours
Not applicable
Anaesthetic grant
Obstetric grant
Surgery grant
Emergency grant
Please attach evidence documentation
CPR
CPR skill training must form a minimum of 1 hour of the education and be consistent with the ARC guidelines.
Did the activity include CPR?
Yes
No
Please attach evidence documentation
GP DECLARATION
I declare to the RACGP:
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I have completed this activity, and to the best of my knowledge it has been conducted and completed in
accordance with the relevant RACGP QI&CPD Program requirements, educational standards and criteria.
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The information I have provided in this document is accurate and correct.
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I understand and acknowledge that the RACGP reserves the right to withdraw recognition of the activity if
in the opinion of the RACGP the activity does not meet the QI&CPD program requirements, educational
standards and criteria.
Signed:
Date: