1352 BMJ Military Health Webinar Series – Continued Professional Development for Medics and General Duties Medical Officers

Abstract

Aim The UK DMS delivers military CPD at a local level. Medics are taught at the regimental level and GDMO’s can vary from local teaching, regimental teaching, or no teaching. GDMO’s are GMC mandated to have CPD covering all areas of practice. Due to the nature of the deployable role of both staff groups it is difficult to deliver consistent teaching that can be revisited. We aimed to deliver regular, consistent, high-quality teaching delivered by SMEs on military relevant topics. Method A Plan, Do, Study, Act approach was used with predefined measures such as structure, process and outcome elicited via a participant survey. Virtual teaching via MOD Zoom monthly for each group was arranged. Teaching focused on medic portfolio competencies, the GDMO syllabus. Teaching was delivered by tri-service SMEs, the sessions were recorded and edited and subsequently uploaded to the BMJ Military Health website at no cost. Results 16 webinars, 8 to Medics and 8 to GDMOs have been delivered. Maximum attendance has been 130 tri-service participants including reservists. Feedback from 111 SP been positive with 65% and 28% of participants rating the teaching as excellent or very good respectively. 98% stated the teaching is relevant to their practice, and 89% agreed the teaching will change their practice going forward. Conclusions We have demonstrated that it is possible to deliver sustainable high quality, relevant, and practice changing sessions across all three services. This teaching has had active engagement from the user community and senior SMEs within the DMS for minimal cost.