What counts as Reviewing Performance (RP) for RACGP CPD?

Of the three RACGP CPD categories, Reviewing Performance (RP) is the one most GPs underweight — and the one most likely to leave you short at year-end. Here's what actually counts, what doesn't, and how to engineer enough of it without making your week unmanageable.

The shape of RP

RP is the category where someone else informs your practice. EA is about new content coming in. MO is your own data coming back. RP is another person's view of how you practise — observation, feedback, structured discussion.

That third-party-input distinction is the test. A solo reflection isn't RP, even if you're being rigorous about it. RP needs someone outside your own head.

Activities that clearly count

• Direct observation by a peer. A colleague sits in on consultations and gives you structured feedback. One of the highest-yield RP formats — but the hardest to organise.
• Case-based discussion (CbD). A peer reviews your written or verbal account of a complex case and asks you questions. Many practices run CbD over lunch or at registrar meetings.
• Multi-source feedback (MSF). A formal 360 from colleagues, nurses, reception, and (sometimes) patients. RACGP-approved MSF tools exist; some take a couple of months to run.
• Significant event analysis (SEA) with a peer. You walk through a critical incident with a colleague who challenges your framing.
• Patient feedback collected via a validated survey. A formal patient-experience tool (not just an informal "how did we go today?").
• Supervision and mentoring you receive. Being supervised counts. Supervising others doesn't (that's its own thing).
• Structured journal club discussion where peers challenge your interpretation. Reading the paper alone is EA; discussing it with colleagues is RP.

Activities that don't count as RP

• Reading a guideline. That's EA.
• A solo audit you run on your own data. That's MO.
• Attending a conference where you didn't actively engage. That's EA at best.
• Reading patient feedback you collected informally (e.g. an open-text Google review). RP requires structured collection.

The trap most GPs fall into

You can comfortably log 40+ hours of EA in a year — reading, listening, attending. RP is harder because it requires organising another human. So GPs tend to push it to November, then realise organising a CbD or MSF takes weeks, and end up scrambling.

The fix is to plan two or three RP touchpoints into the first half of the year:

1. Q1: schedule a monthly CbD over practice-meeting lunches.
2. Q2: organise a formal MSF (it takes 6-8 weeks to run a proper one).
3. Ongoing: pair every clinical audit (MO) with a peer discussion of the findings (RP). Same data, two categories.

How PracticaCPD helps

Every clinical module on PracticaCPD includes an audit step (MO) followed by a structured reflection step (RP) — the reflection prompts you to discuss findings with a peer and log their input. One module run end-to-end auto-logs hours across all three categories.

For activities you organise yourself, log them under Activities → New, pick "Reviewing Performance" as the category, upload evidence (the MSF report, the CbD notes, the peer's feedback), and add a short reflection. The dashboard shows your RP total and combined-minimum gap in real time.

See also

• The RACGP 2026 CPD framework, explained — the bigger picture
• RACGP CPD page — the authoritative requirements