Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Portfolio

To complete your initial credentialling, you must provide a record of your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) demonstrating activities undertaken in the 12 months prior to submitting your initial credentialling application. You should complete your CPD Portfolio from your member dashboard when you log in to the ADEA website. This will then be automatically pre-filled into your credentialling application.

You can download the CPD Portfolio Points Guide to assist you to complete the online CPD Portfolio. You are required to submit at least 20 points of CPD activity.

Five points must be from ADEA-developed or ADEA-endorsed activities:

• ADEA-developed activities include ADEA conferences and education programs (available on the ADEA LMS).
• ADEA-endorsed courses are developed by other organisations and endorsed by ADEA.

When entering your CPD activities into the online CPD Portfolio, be sure to provide an ‘activity description’ (the specific and full name of the activity) to ensure the assessors can identify what the activity was, how it relates to diabetes, and whether it is from the ADEA-developed or ADEA-endorsed activity list. Please use the textbox provided and do not use abbreviations.

For example: Activity Type: ‘Quality improvement activity’

Activity description: What was the quality improvement activity? How was it identified? What was the outcome? What change of practice occurred as a result?

Sample: ‘I undertook a survey of patients that attended my diabetes clinic. I do this annually to gain regular feedback from my clientele. I have made changes to my workplace consultation time and am trialling an information sheet to gather patient data prior to the scheduled consult time.’

Linking Goals, Activities and Outcomes together

If you are being Audited, all points being claimed must be verified by way of certificate of attendance or other relevant proof of participation as specified in the CPD Portfolio Points Guide. You will be notified if you are being audited via an on-screen message when you log in to your ADEA member profile.

As detailed in the CPD Portfolio Points Guide, there are three compulsory categories for collection of CPD points:

• Category 1- Clinical Practice / Diabetes Education / Counselling
• Category 2- Management / Administration / Leadership
• Category 3 – Research and Quality Improvement

as well as an optional category:

• Category 4- Professional Contribution

Points required for each category will depend on the dominant role and scope of practice you choose:

• Mostly Clinical Work
• Mostly Management Work
• Mostly Research Work