Inside News June 2023

RANZCR Welcomes the Medical Community to Join its CPD Home New Associate Affiliation launched

In May this year, RANZCR President Clin A/Prof Sanjay Jeganathan was pleased to announce that the College has received initial accreditation as a CPD Home and welcome the medical community to join the College via its new RANZCR Associate Affiliation. This was in response to the changes to the standards for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) that the Medical Board of Australia and Medical Council of New Zealand announced in July 2021, including the concept of CPD Homes.

RANZCR has delivered a seamless transition to the new requirements for CPD set by MBA and Medical Council of New Zealand with 2022 as a transition year for our members. RANZCR introduced some of the new CPD requirements and proudly launched the CPD ePortfolio, its online platform for members to record and track their progress. The transition year was well received by members, allowing the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the enhanced CPD program and the new CPD ePortfolio platform.

From January 2024, all doctors who hold medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) will be required to nominate a CPD home. RANZCR’s CPD program fully aligns with the requirements detailed in the MBA’s 2023 Continuing Professional Development Registration Standard, enabling all CPD program participants to meet their MBA registration requirements with ease.

A CPD Home is defined as an organisation that is accredited by the Board’s accreditation authority, the Australian Medical Council, to provide a CPD program for medical practitioners. RANZCR received initial accreditation as a CPD Home in November 2022.

With a long standing and proven track record of supporting the CPD programs for the specialties of clinical radiology and radiation oncology, we invite medical specialists and health care professionals who are working in related fields of medical imaging, image guided intervention, and cancer care to nominate RANZCR as their CPD home.

Meanwhile, the College’s current membership model was reviewed to allow new groups in the medical community to join RANZCR, have a relationship and association with the College, and nominate it as their CPD Home. To support the wider medical community to join RANZCR’s CPD home, the College has launched RANZCR’s Associate Affiliation structure.

The new RANZCR Associate Affiliation enables individuals who do not qualify for admission to membership of the College, but whose scope of practice aligns with the specialties of clinical radiology and radiation oncology to become a RANZCR Associate .

This is an important and exciting opportunity for the College and its Fellow Members.

ASSOCIATE CATEGORIES

Individuals whose scope of practice aligns with the specialties of clinical radiology and radiation oncology can now become a RANZCR Associate*. RANZCR has created three Associate categories:

1. Specialist Associate – doctors who have trained and gained a Fellowship from a recognised Specialist Medical College in Australia or New Zealand or another recognised Specialist Medical Society.

2. Medical Associate – medical students or junior doctors who are interested in a career in clinical radiology/radiation oncology. Nonspecialist doctors who are qualified and recognised by APHRA as a doctor but who have not gained a Fellowship from a recognised Specialist Medical College in Australia or New Zealand or another recognised Specialist Medical Society.

3. Nursing and Allied Health Associate – other healthcare professionals whose scope of practice identifies with clinical radiology or radiation oncology.

Visit the website for full details of these categories, eligibility criteria and to join.

RANZCR ASSOCIATE AFFILIATION BENEFITS

The RANZCR Associate is an opportunity for affiliated medical and health practitioners to join our professional community to build knowledge, skills and relationships within the field of medical and interventional imaging, radiation oncology treatment and cancer care.

For RANZCR Fellow Members, CPD management and support is already included in your RANZCR membership.

Associates will receive a range of benefits, including:

• CPD management – make RANZCR your CPD Home: gain access to quality educational and networking opportunities available in conjunction with the RANZCR CPD ePortfolio; create development plans; upload evidence; record hours; view compliance; download certificates with ease.

• Benefit from RANZCR’s work in setting standards and guidelines that support quality, and their advocacy work in the sector.

• Access Special Interest Groups to further your knowledge and connect with like-minded peers.

• Enhance your skills with courses, workshops and tutorials at Associate rates.

• Take advantage of opportunities to build relationships with peers and mentors.

• Use of the RANZCR Associate logo. Visit the website for the full list of Associate benefits.

If your scope of practice aligns with clinical radiology and radiation oncology, you can now make RANZCR your CPD Home. Fellow Members, we invite you to refer aligned medical professionals to use RANZCR as their CPD Home and join our professional community.

JOIN RANZCR AND BECOME AN ASSOCIATE

Contribute to better quality of patient care by being a part of the College that designs, delivers, and quality assures global best practice training and CPD programs.

Find out more about the RANZCR Associate Affiliation, categories, benefits and fees and apply via the website: www.ranzcr.com/college/membership/ associates

Enquiries, please email associate@ranzcr.edu.au

*Specific eligibility criteria applies.