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50 hours a calendar year: at least 25 reviewing performance and measuring outcomes, at least 12.5 educational, the rest wherever you like, plus a written plan before you start 13. A CPD home is the AMC-accredited body that sets the program and reports you to the Board; there are 23 2. Interns and most PGY2s are exempt 1.
The standard. The Medical Board's CPD registration standard has applied since 1 January 2023. Each calendar year you must belong to an AMC-accredited CPD home, write an annual professional development plan before you start, complete at least 50 hours relevant to your scope of practice, self-evaluate at the end of the year, and keep the records for three years in case you are audited 3. The 50 hours split: at least 12.5 educational (reading, lectures, conferences), at least 25 in reviewing performance and measuring outcomes with a minimum of five hours in each of those two categories, and the remaining 12.5 anywhere you like 13.
What a CPD home actually is. The organisation, accredited by the AMC, that runs the program, logs your hours and reports your compliance to the Board — and that you name when you renew registration 2. There are 23: every specialist college plus a set of non-college homes 2. If you are a college trainee, your college is your home and there is nothing extra to do 1.
Who is exempt. Interns. PGY2s in a PGY2 program accredited by a state or territory postgraduate medical council that leads to a certificate of completion — you are deemed to have met the standard by doing the job 12. Also non-practising registration, limited registration under four weeks, and exemptions your home grants for six to twelve months' leave 1. Everyone else — a PGY2 outside such a program, every PGY3+ not in a college training program, every SRMO and unaccredited registrar — has to join a home and do the full 50 hours 1.
The real gripe. Not the hours, the invoice for logging them 4. HETI runs a home aimed at NSW JMOs not on an accredited training pathway 2; fees across the other homes are not published in one place, so shop. The community consensus is: pick the cheapest home your scope allows and do not test whether the Board audits 56.
r/ausjdocs — community view, not policy; verbatim, cautionary beside positive where both exist, every quote linked to the comment.
There nothing wrong with the CPD requirement, it's important to encourage people to stay up to date. The bullshit thing is having to pay to record it.
adding another cost onto the price of simply being able to work, especially for pgy2's, feels like an opportunistic cash grab and nothing more.
It's a Medical Board of Australia/AHPRA requirement. I definitely wouldn't be poking that bear.
AHPRA ditch personal logbooks. Suddenly a subscription for a regulated CPD home costs $$$ to run the most basic platform.
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