ANZCA – Your CPD home in Australia The college has been granted Australian Medical Council (AMC) accreditation as a CPD home.
Under their revised continuing professional development (CPD) registration standard, the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) requires doctors registered in Australia to “meet the requirements of a CPD program of an accredited CPD home”. All doctors must have a CPD home which is relevant to their specialty or scope of practice by 1 January 2024. All specialist medical colleges who have offered CPD programs for many years have gone through this new accreditation process to become accredited CPD homes. Your college is well placed to deliver a quality CPD home, having received high commendations for the CPD standard during the recent whole-college AMC reaccreditation (more details on page 18).
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU? You don’t need to do anything. Australian fellows can continue to access our CPD program as part of their college membership. Non-fellows can also choose the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program as their CPD home for a reasonable fee that covers the costs of delivering the program and provides additional features such as library access. Our CPD home will continue to offer features that fellows value including: • A CPD program developed by specialist anaesthetists and specialist pain medicine physicians. • Easy recording of activities and evidence in our online CPD portfolio. • Progress tracking using your tailored CPD portfolio dashboard. • Automatic recording of college events, including the ANZCA Annual Scientific Meeting, FPM Symposium, workshops, and courses. • Links to the training portfolio system to provide automatic recording of training activities such as workplace-based assessments. • Access to Learn@ANZCA, the new college learning management system which hosts modules such as our online anaphylaxis course. Hours spent on Learn@ANZCA modules are also automatically recorded in your CPD portfolio.
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• G uidance and measurement tools for those who practice without direct patient care (in development, see page 46 for more information). • P eer to peer support from ANZCA and FPM CPD Committee members, accessed through the CPD team. • I ndividualised assistance from our dedicated and experienced CPD team. • A commitment to continuous improvement, with planned CPD activity expansion and CPD portfolio enhancement as part of college projects in 2023.
NEW ZEALAND FELLOWS The Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) will continue to accredit the college to provide a recertification program for New Zealand fellows under their Accreditation standards for Aotearoa New Zealand training providers of vocational medical training and recertification programmes 2022. All doctors with vocational registration in anaesthesia and pain medicine in New Zealand must complete the ANZCA and FPM CPD Program. The features detailed above are also offered to New Zealand fellows.