Firstly, participation in research can be claimed as a CPD activity to help meet this supporting information requirement. Research will often be done online and may be used to supplement the knowledge gained from another CPD activity such as attending a course or event. 

It can be claimed on the basis of one credit per hour when accompanied by reflection showing how it has applied to your scope of clinical practice.

Some doctors make reference to the prompts: ‘What?’, ‘So what?’, and ‘Now what?’, and the CPD activities section in the Lifelong Learning Platform features three corresponding boxes for reflection entitled: ‘Review’, ‘Experience gained’ and ‘Resulting change’.