SA IMET

Professional Development Program for Registrars (PDPR)

Medical registrars currently receive little specific guidance or education on how to successfully navigate the leadership responsibilities associated with the increasingly senior positions that they hold; many understandably struggle with some of the assumptions and expectations. The Professional Development Program for Registrars aims to improve leadership and management performance in the workplace via a sustainable, national program.

The objectives of the PDPR are to:

  1. Promote awareness of the centrality of the registrar role in supervising and educating doctors in their prevocational years
  2. Improve the quality of the educational supervision provided to doctors in their prevocational training, by developing registrars' teaching and supervision skills.

MJA Paper on PDPR Equipping our front-line managers: a national program for the professional development of registrars

PDPR Sessions in 2012

Following successful sessions of the Professional Development Program for Registrars (PDPR) in 2010 & 2011, SA IMET seeks nominations for participants from all hospitals in South Australia for the 2–day workshops in 2012.

Nominations can be forwarded to saimet@health.sa.gov.au; please include the name and email address of proposed participants.

2012 Provisional Program Dates

  1. 26-27 April   Register you interest in attending April PDPR
  2. 24-25 May
  3. 21-22 June
  4. 11-12 October

Please see PDPR brochure for more information on the 2012 sessions.

Facilitators

We would like to take the opportunity to thank those trainers who assisted in facilitating programs throughout 2011.

If you would like to learn more about becoming an accredited facilitator for PDPR, please email saimet@health.sa.gov.au