RACGP is your CPD Home


Manage your professional development needs, all in one place as part of your membership

RACGP is your CPD Home


Manage your professional development needs, all in one place as part of your membership

Last updated 25 July 2024

As an RACGP member, your CPD is covered

Everything you need to complete your CPD is included within your membership.

  • A CPD home that values and recognises the CPD you do in your workday
  • Access thousands of approved CPD activities where your hours are uploaded for you
  • Tools and resources that help you plan, do and record your CPD simply and easily
  • Ready-made CPD solutions with EA, RP and MO options on many clinical topics
  • Access local, tailored support when you call 1800 716 853.

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Plan, record and track your CPD

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For advice, support, templates and other resources

CPD policies and guidelines


Access our exemptions policy, supervisors CPD, new fellows guide and more.

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Frequently Asked Questions


Important change to CPD grace period

The RACGP is your CPD Home. We’re here to support you to complete your 2024 CPD during the 2024 calendar year. 

The Medical Board of Australia has notified CPD homes that all doctors must complete 2024 CPD requirements in the 2024 calendar year. There will be no grace period at the end of 2024. You will be able to finalise recording CPD completed in 2024, up until 28 February 2025.

The RACGP recognises that this change may be significant for some members who’ve used a grace period at the end of each CPD reporting cycle, and we’re here to help.

It’s important that you login to myCPD now, to start your Professional Development Plan, find activities in our CPD home that interest you, and log the CPD you do in your everyday work.

Please reach out as soon as possible for support to meet your 2024 CPD requirements. Call for assistance on 1800 716 853, to speak directly with a member of the CPD team.

Explore your CPD solutions

RACGP’s CPD solutions have been developed with you in mind. We’ve brought together Educational Activities (EA), Reviewing Performance (RP) and Measuring Outcomes (MO) options on many clinical topics to suit your role and scope of practice.

Activities vary from online courses, webinars and the RACGP’s premier CPD options like check and Australian Journal of General Practice (AJGP). We also offer suggestions on how to capture the CPD that takes place as you keep up to date in your everyday work.

We’re continually adding more CPD solutions, including:

 

Not a member yet? You won’t be able to access our CPD solutions.


Join our CPD home

Not already a member? The RACGP welcomes all registered medical practitioners whose scope aligns with general practice to join our CPD home. Membership unlocks a wide range of benefits, see information on membership rates.

Experience being a member of the largest CPD home in Australia. Express your interest and we will contact you.

 

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About your RACGP CPD program

Your CPD requirements


The RACGP is your CPD Home. We recognise the CPD you do in practice and have tailored your CPD program to your scope and the way you work, providing the technology you need and access to thousands of activities across the breadth of General Practice.  

Your CPD program comprises the following requirements. 

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Figure 1. https://www.amc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Criteria-for-AMC-Accreditation-of-CPD-Homes-August-2022.pdf

  1. The minimum requirements for your annual CPD are 50 hours of CPD across three activity types - Educational Activities, Reviewing Performance and Measuring Outcomes
  2. Program-level requirements are:
    1. Culturally Safe Practice
    2. Health Inequities
    3. Professionalism and ethical practice

Each year, you must include at least one activity in your CPD that addresses each of these areas. It can be an ‘in practice’ activity or a specific learning objective and may combine one or more of these elements or address them separately. It’s up to you and should be considered in relation to your individual needs. Please visit our program-level requirements page for further information 

  1.  High-level requirements  

Some specialist colleges have high level requirements approved by the MBA. These relate to the outcomes of training to achieve specialist registration in the relevant specialty. 

For General Practice, you need to complete CPR each triennium.  

If you hold a dual Fellowship i.e. you belong to another Specialist Medical College, you must check whether your other Specialist College has any approved High-Level requirements. Here’s a link to the MBA guidelines.   

Each College that has an MBA approved Specialist High Level Requirement will have resources specific to this requirement. You can engage with the college that holds your dual Fellowship or complete independent learning as long as it meets the requirements as described in the MBA guidelines.

Once you have completed the Specialist High Level requirement for your dual Fellowship, you can upload the evidence and appropriate CPD hours through myCPD.

Contact details for each of the Colleges are available here.

Each calendar year you will need to record 50 hours of CPD across different activity types. There are some required activity types, but also flexibility in how you make up some of your hours.

NB. You’ll note the change from points in previous years.

 

 

As a requirement of the Medical Board, you will also need to complete a Professional Development Plan (PDP) each year.

We have created a simple tool on the myCPD Dashboard to make the process easy for you. Watch this video on how to start your PDP.

GPs are required to develop and improve their practice by engaging in at least one relevant CPD activity in the following areas each year. This CPD is part of the annual 50 hours requirement, not additional.

  • Culturally safe practice
  • Health inequities
  • Professionalism and ethical practice
These requirements can be found in section C3, Criteria for AMC Accreditation of CPD Homes.

Please visit our program-level requirements page for further information.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) course (HLTAID009 provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation) is the specialist high-level requirement for general practice. Specialist GPs must complete a CPR course once each triennium, e.g. once in the 2023-25 triennium. The RACGP will also accept basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) courses that include CPR and meets the Australian Resuscitation Council guidelines. The Medical Board of Australia has determined that all CPR courses will only be eligible for hours under the Educational Activities CPD type.

Evidence of your annual CPD activities must be retained for three years. See evidence guide here.

RACGP's myCPD is more than a tracker, myCPD is designed to offer you peace of mind – so you can find and complete accredited activities, knowing that your evidence automatically uploads to your myCPD home.

Using your phone’s camera in conjunction with our myCPD app enables you to attach evidence of CPD you do on the go in your workday. Any evidence you upload to myCPD home will be retained on your myCPD home. Download it now.

There will be times that uploading evidence of your CPD activity is not suitable (e.g. if it contains patient/sensitive information). We recommend uploading only deidentified data or complete a reflection on what you’ve learned or changes you’ve made to your practise. In those instances ensure you keep adequate records of your CPD activities for three years following the relevant CPD year.

More information on the MBA requirements for evidencing CPD for audit purposes is available.


Download the myCPD app

Whenever and wherever it suits you, the RACGP myCPD app allows you to easily log your hours, browse through hundreds of quality, relevant CPD activities, and keep track of your progress. Download the app to your smartphone or tablet today by searching ‘mycpd’ in the App Store or Google Play.



Contact us

If you have any questions about your RACGP CPD home or your requirements, you can contact us for 1800 716 853.