Appendix 5: Types of CPD activities

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program
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    15. Appendix 5: Types of CPD activities

Last revised: 06 Feb 2026

Appendix 5: Types of CPD activities

Providers can use Table A5.1 as a guide to prompt their thinking on the types of activities they can develop. Each activity appears in line with the Medical Board of Australia continuing professional development (CPD) activity type. This is not an exhaustive list.

Table A5.1. Types of CPD activities

Educational activities
(knowledge and skills)		 Activities that expand knowledge, skills and attitudes
  • Workshops
  • Conferences
  • Lectures webinars
  • Podcasts
  • Short courses
  • Case-based discussions
Reviewing performance
(with evidence of feedback)		 Activities that require reflection on feedback about the GP’s work
  • Case-based discussion
  • Peer group learning
  • Professional development plan (PDP)
  • Patient feedback
  • Multi-source feedback
  • Doctors’ health and wellbeing
  • Supervisor activities
Measuring outcomes
(with evidence of outcomes)		 Activities that use work data to ensure quality results
  • Mini audit/audit
  • Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA)
  • Research
  • Practice accreditation
  • Evaluation
  • Quality improvement (QI) project
Hybrid activities
(RACGP initiative)		 Activities that are a combination
of two or more of the MBA’s three
different activity types – education
activities (EA), measuring outcomes
(MO) and/or reviewing performance
(RP)
  • Peer group learning – could be a combination of EA (eg presentations and RP (eg case-based discussions with
    feedback and/or reflective components)
  • Workshops – could be a combination of EA (eg presentations, lectures) and RP (practical skills station/s, casebased discussion/s, assessment/s with feedback and/or reflective components) and/or MO (eg post-activity to conduct a mini-audit back in practice relevant to workshop’s educational topic)
  • Supervising and mentoring/teaching – could be a combination of EA (the actual teaching or supervision involved) and/ or RP) (eg with feedback component on the quality of supervision or mentoring or teaching); MO (using the data to measure the quality of supervision/ mentoring⁄teaching results and improve on these)



 

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