General Osteopathic Council

Osteopathic
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Osteopathic Practice Standards > B. Knowledge, skills and performance > B3. You must keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date.

B3. You must keep your professional knowledge and skills up to date.

  1. To achieve this, you should:
    1. be professionally engaged, undertaking professional development activities and complying with GOsC requirements regarding continuing professional development
    2. keep up to date with factors relevant to your practice, including:
      1. GOsC guidance
      2. legal requirements or changes to the law in relation to your practice, for example, in relation to data storage (see standard C3), health and safety in the workplace (see standard C5) and equality issues (see standard D6)
      3. research and other relevant developments in healthcare.