CPD eLearning (formerly CPD Online) is a resource provided by the Royal College of Psychiatrists for mental health professionals, housed on our new eLearning Hub.
CPD eLearning offers a range of learning modules and podcasts that provide a flexible, interactive way of keeping up to date with progress in mental health. During the pandemic, there will be no limit on eLearning that can be counted for CPD; it will be possible for ALL 50 CREDITS to be obtained in this way. Access to the modules is through annual subscription, but we also offer a series of free modules and podcasts for you to trial first.
For more information, visit the CPD eLearning website.
BJPsych Advances and CPD eLearning work together to produce regular joint commissions to enhance learning for mental health professionals.
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Recent modules and podcasts
Module Planning ahead: end-of-life care, treatment escalation and advance care planning
All professionals involved in care should be equipped to support patients, and the people important to them, to understand how their health is likely to change, weigh up the burdens and outcomes of treatment and make realistic, informed recommendations to guide future care. Within psychiatry, we face additional challenges when addressing these emotive and complex concepts. Special consideration should be given to unpicking suicidal depressive phenomena from informed decision-making, or overcoming other difficulties such as the challenges in understanding that are experienced by people with an intellectual disability, recall challenges linked to cognitive impairment, interference in decision-making from symptoms of psychosis, or the complex challenges of impairments in weighing things up for people with a personality disorder.
CPD points: 1
Module Depersonalisation-derealisation disorder (DDD): assessment and treatment
Meeting your first patient with depersonalisation-derealisation disorder (DDD) may be challenging if you lack confidence in knowing how to diagnose this condition and what evidence-based treatments to offer. This module will give you a brief, but comprehensive, overview from both a consultant psychiatrist and clinical psychologist who have extensive experience working with DDD. The module includes information on common presentations, comorbidity and the main triggers for onset, as well as guidance on how to assess and diagnose DDD. Learners will also be given an overview of the main treatments and a stepped care guide to implementing these.
CPD points: 1
Podcast Sustainable prescribing
Greener NHS aims to be the world's first net zero national health service by 2045. In this podcast Dr Raj Persaud discusses with Dr Guy Harvey and Dr Ally Xiang sustainable healthcare, medicine's carbon footprint and what the NHS could be doing to prescribe and practice sustainably at individual, local and organisational levels.
CPD points: 0.5
Module Understanding and managing cardiovascular risks in treating mental illness
This module will build on the BJPsych Advances paper ‘Understanding and managing cardiac side-effects of second-generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia’, to provide practical, psychiatry-related tips and information on reading an electrocardiogram (ECG), how to approach cardiovascular risk assessment, and common imaging techniques used by cardiologists to evaluate common heart conditions.
CPD points: 1
Podcast RCPsych in Scotland: Drug-related deaths
Over the past 20 years, several national reports have been produced in Scotland, reporting on the increasing numbers of drug related deaths occurring in the country. In this podcast, Dr Nadia Imran discusses with Dr Brian Kidd the history and problems surrounding the attempts to reduce drug deaths in Scotland.
CPD points: 0.5
In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud discusses with Professor Christian List the scientifically rigorous argument for the existence of free will. Many scientists and philosophers are sceptical that free will exists, especially when it is understood to require the ability to choose between alternative possibilities. They argue that if the laws of physics govern everything that happens, then how can our choices be free? Believers in free will must therefore be misled by habit, sentiment or religious doctrine. However, in his new book, Why Free Will Is Real, Professor List defies this scientific orthodoxy and presents a bold new defence of free will in the same naturalistic terms that are usually deployed against it.
CPD points: 0.5