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Program guide & requirements
The RANZCP Continuing Professional Development (CPD) program provides opportunities for professional learning, a platform to record your progress and guidance to help you meet requirements set out by medical regulators.
The program is flexible, with multiple ways to meet requirements, emphasises self-directed education and focuses on practice improvement.
CPD Program guides
CPD requirements
Participants need to complete a minimum of 50 hours annually, including
| Section 1: Professional Development Plan | 2 hours | |
| Section 2: Formal Peer Review | Minimum 10 hours | 23 hours in total across these two sections |
| Section 3: Practice Improvement | Minimum 5 hours | |
| Section 4: Self-guided learning | 12.5 hours | |
| Section 5: Additional hours | 12.5 hours | |
| Total | 50 hours |
Australian standards
- CPD requirements for medical practitioners in Australia. The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
- Obligations on medical practitioners [Medical Board of Australia]
- Continuing professional development registration standard [Medical Board of Australia]
- Information for participants of declared quality assurance activities [Australian Government Department of Health and Aging website]
Aotearoa New Zealand standards
- The Medical Council of New Zealand (MCNZ) sets the CPD requirements for medical practitioners in New Zealand.
- Maintain registration [Medical Council of New Zealand]
- Recertification and professional development [Medical Council of New Zealand]
- Protected Quality Assurance Activities under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 [NZ Ministry of Health]
