The new CPD regime: Why the AMA is menacing the RACGP
AMA WA will become a CPD home next month, the first to be accredited outside of the medical colleges.
The reforms to CPD are now in place: self-reflection, the need for a written professional development plan, measuring your outcomes and the rest.
This new regime offers one significant freedom — GPs no longer have to do the CPD programs offered by the RACGP and ACRRM to remain registered.
They can go elsewhere and join an alternative CPD home outside the specialist colleges, with this organisation responsible for co-ordinating their CPD through the year, documenting the activities they do and reporting their compliance (or not) to AHPRA.
And these new homes will be free to accredit their own CPD educational activities; GPs will no longer have to do activities formally accredited by the RACGP or ACRRM.
