Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for doctors

All practising doctors in Australia must allocate annual CPD time to consider and develop your professionalism and ethical practice according to your scope of practice and role(s).

CPD requirements

All doctors need to meet the 2023 CPD registration standard when doing their CPD in 2024. This means you have a CPD home in 2024 (unless exempt).

You will:

join an Australian Medical Council (AMC) accredited CPD home before you start to do your CPD in 2024 (the home must be suitable for your scope of practice and can be a college or non-college home – find out more.
log CPD activities with your CPD home
need to declare which is your CPD home at 2024/25 registration renewal
write a professional development plan before starting to do CPD each year.

Split of hours

Doctors must complete 50 hours CPD each year, split across a range of activities:

25 hours – reviewing performance and measuring outcomes, you decide the best mix of these activities to suit your practice, with five hours minimum of each type
12.5 hours – traditional learning or educational activities – reading, lectures, conferences etc
12.5 hours of activities from any category – you allocate these CPD hours.

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