Dr George Iacono / AI for CPD

How I use AI for my CPD, inside clear governance rules

I'm George, a medical officer working in intensive care. This book explains how to use AI to help document your CPD, with six rules covering privacy, authorship and checking the output. You bring the learning and review what the tool produces.

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THE BOOK / FIRST EDITION

AI for CPD: A Practical Guide for Australian Medical Practitioners, by George Iacono

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01 Capture 02 Process 03 Refine 04 Document

THE METHOD / AN INTERACTIVE EXAMPLE

The four steps: CPR-D

Use these steps to take your own material through to a checked portfolio entry.

Abridged example from Chapter 5, page 42. A GP registrar reflects on a podcast. Selected excerpts are presented below.

Scroll through the example or choose a step.

Capture.

Get the raw material down while you still remember it. A two-minute voice note counts.

NOTES / AFTER LISTENING

You capture your own thinking after the podcast.

Notes after a podcast

A GP registrar reflects on a podcast about chronic pain in primary care.

“Also made me think I lean too heavily on medication reviews without addressing patient expectations. Want to think about how to build a brief pain education component into my longer consults.”

Selected sentences from the original capture.

Process.

Hand the notes to the AI with a clear instruction.

AI chatIllustrative interface

From your notes to an AI draft

You / notes from Capture

“I lean too heavily on medication reviews without addressing patient expectations.”

Your instruction / abridged

Structure my notes under: what I heard, what challenged my thinking, what I plan to change and how I will know it worked.

Notes + instruction sent to the chatbot ↓

AI / draft excerpts to check

“the 2022 NICE guidelines on chronic pain”

“implement a structured pain neuroscience education program”

The AI adds a reference you did not supply and a plan more ambitious than you intended. Next, you review the draft.

Refine.

Read it with a clinician's eye. Delete what it made up, fix what it flattened, make sure it says what you actually think. This is the part that's yours and can't be delegated.

Check against your own thinking

Reflection.docxEditing / review changes

Review the chatbot’s draft

You make these corrections in your document editor.

Not in the podcast notes

“the 2022 NICE guidelines on chronic pain”

The clinician deletes the added reference.

Too ambitious

“implement a structured pain neuroscience education program”

The clinician's actual plan

“In my next five patients presenting with chronic non-cancer pain, I will spend 2 to 3 minutes on a brief explanation of pain neuroscience concepts and note their response.”

Document.

Finish the entry and file it.

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My CPD portfolioIllustrative interface

Save the corrected reflection as a PDF, then attach it to your CPD activity.

A checked portfolio entry

Selected excerpts, not the complete reflection

What challenged my thinking

“I lean too heavily on medication reviews without addressing patient expectations.”

What I plan to change

“In my next five patients presenting with chronic non-cancer pain, I will spend 2 to 3 minutes on a brief explanation of pain neuroscience concepts and note their response.”

Podcast-reflection.pdfReviewed document → CPD activity

✓ Example upload complete

Pain ManagementCommunication Skills

The book's example ends with the clinician adding the finished reflection to their CPD portfolio.

An abridged demonstration from the book, with an illustrative prompt, editorial labels and sample interfaces. The upload is a demonstration only. It uses fixed excerpts; it does not generate a reflection or accept personal information.

What's in the book

The book is in three parts: the foundations, the method, and the practical realities of using AI day to day. It teaches one repeatable method, then applies it across nine CPD activities you already do.

The nine CPD activities it covers

  1. Reflective writing

    A clinical experience into a structured reflection, in the shape your CPD home asks for.

  2. Learning plans

    Draft a plan around gaps in your knowledge and what you want to learn.

  3. Literature digestion

    Journal articles and guideline updates, condensed to what matters for your practice.

  4. Practice improvement activities

    Write up a change to your practice and organise the evidence for audit.

  5. Case-based learning documentation

    Case learning written up from de-identified or non-patient material.

  6. Exam and assessment preparation

    Practice questions and a study structure for exams and assessments.

  7. Conference and course notes

    Rough notes or a transcript from a talk into learning points you'll look at again.

  8. Peer discussion preparation

    Organised notes for a peer review conversation.

  9. CPD summaries and annual statements

    Pull the year together into a summary and annual statement.

Also included
  • Six governance rules covering patient privacy, copyright, authorship and accountability, CPD-home and employer requirements, verification of AI output and process transparency.
  • Tested example prompts for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, and a workspace initialisation prompt that personalises your setup in minutes.
  • A chapter on where AI falls short (hallucinated references, corrupted transcripts, context-window limits on long documents, and the risk of a missing judgement layer) with a practical response for each.
  • The book is deliberately tool-agnostic, so the method works with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any similar tool, and across all CPD homes, college and non-college.
Dr George Iacono

About the author

Dr George Iacono, medical officer in intensive care

I am a medical officer working in intensive care in Australia, with over 20 years of experience across anaesthetics and intensive care. I have always been drawn to new technology and have watched multiple waves come through medicine: electronic medical records, smartphones, point-of-care ultrasound, telehealth. AI tools are the latest, and in my experience, among the most practically useful for everyday professional work.

  • MBBS, BMedSci (Hons) and MPH (Monash University)

This is independent educational material. It is not endorsed by, affiliated with or approved by AHPRA, any medical college, any CPD home or any employer.

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The book

AI for CPD: A Practical Guide for Australian Medical Practitioners

Written for medical practitioners across all colleges and career stages.

Inside you get the four-step CPR-D method, nine worked CPD workflows, a tested prompt library for ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, a workspace setup prompt and six governance rules applied to every workflow.

Questions doctors ask first

Will using AI for CPD get me in trouble at audit?

This is the concern the book is built to answer. Every workflow sits inside six governance rules covering patient privacy, copyright, authorship and accountability, CPD-home and employer requirements, verification of AI output and process transparency, so your documentation is organised the way CPD homes ask for it. Every workflow uses de-identified or non-patient content. No patient-identifiable information goes into an AI tool at any point.

The book is also honest about its footing. It is independent educational material, not endorsed by AHPRA, any college or any employer. As of early 2026 no Australian medical college had published specific guidance on AI-assisted CPD. The book gives you a governance framework so you can set sensible boundaries and show your working if you are asked. It cannot pre-approve anything, and it does not claim to.

Doesn't AI just make things up?

Yes, sometimes, and it does so fluently. A full chapter covers the failure modes: invented references, corrupted transcripts, long documents cut short without warning and the risk of trusting the output without reading it. The Refine step exists because catching this is your job. Checking what the AI tells you is one of the six rules.

Isn't this just teaching me to game my CPD?

No. Everything starts from learning you've actually done. If there's nothing to capture, there's nothing to process. The book says this plainly and it's designed to make your reflection more honest, not less, because you're working from your own notes rather than a blank page at 11pm.

I'm not technical. Is this over my head?

No. You don't need any AI experience or a technical background. There's a setup prompt that builds you a personalised CPD workspace in a few minutes, and after that it's typing or dictating notes, which you already do.

Why $49 when free CPD content already exists?

This isn't more content to work through. It's a way of turning the learning you already do into documentation, with rules attached. It isn't tied to a portal or a subscription, and it works across every CPD home. You get nine tested activities and the prompts to run them today.

Who is this not for?

This guide is not for doctors looking to game their CPD, to shortcut genuine learning, or to feed patient information into an AI tool. It refuses all three. It also does not cover clinical decision support, diagnosis, treatment recommendations or any patient-specific advice. That is a different domain with different risks.

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