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CPD for general practice medical educators

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Last updated 18 November 2025

Purpose

This guide outlines how the RACGP will recognise and record CPD hours for eligible GP medical educators, acknowledging the professional development that occurs when designing and delivering educational activities for registrars and GP supervisors.

Background

Under the Medical Board of Australia’s current CPD Registration Standard GPs, like all doctors, are required to complete 50 hours of CPD each year. CPD activities must include of a mix of:

Educational activities (EA) – activities that expand general practice knowledge skills and attitudes, related to the GP’s scope of practice
Measuring outcomes (MO) – activities that use a GP’s work data to ensure quality results
Reviewing performance (RP) – activities that require reflection on feedback about a GP’s work.

Automatic allocation of CPD hours for GP medical educators

Being a GP medical educator is an important specific interest within the GP specialty. Professional development activities that advance a GP medical educator's knowledge and skills in their specific interest area have long been accepted as forming part of a GP’s Continuous Professional Development (CPD) activities. Additionally, when teaching, mentoring, and assessing another medical practitioner, the GP learner advances their core general practice knowledge and skills. This is because these activities involve reflection-on-action through interacting with a colleague, deconstructing clinical decisions, and sharing and testing ideas and skills. These are activities that meet the reviewing performance (RP) and measuring outcomes (MO) CPD categories.

The RACGP will automatically record a substantial portion of each GP medical educators’ CPD requirements in recognition of the professional development that occurs whilst educating GP registrars. A GP medical educator, like every GP, should consider the breadth of their learning needs and undertake CPD that meets these needs. A medical educator will still need to complete other CPD activities to complete their annual CPD requirement of 50 hours.

CPD activities that form part of your role as a medical educator and are therefore included in the automatically recorded portion of CPD include but are not limited to:

management and facilitation of out of practice a small group learning sessions for GP registrars
undertaking clinical teaching visits
contributing to registrar workplace-based assessment feedback
providing exam preparation support for registrars
supporting in-practice supervisors with teaching and supervision as well as their professional development.

How will CPD for GP medical educators be applied?

Who: This simplified process applies to RACGP medical educators formally working in the Australian General Practice Training program (AGPT), the Fellowship Support Program (FSP) or the Practice Experience Program (PEP) Specialist Stream.

The CPD team is working on the CPD allocation for medical educators working in other RACGP roles. Non-RACGP, casually employed medical educatorss or external medical educators can self-record their medical educator CPD via Quick Log.

What: RACGP medical educators will automatically be allocated 30 hours of CPD. The allocation will cover all three of the MBA activity types: EA, RP and MO. CPD recognition will be automatically allocated to GP medical educators’ RACGP CPD statements by the RACGP.

When: CPD hours will be allocated in June each year. Medical educators who join the program after June should contact the CPD team for advice about their medical educator CPD.

RACGP medical educators*
30 hours of CPD	5 hours of educational activities (EA)
	20 hours reviewing performance (RP)
	5 hours measuring outcomes (MO)

*Automatically awarded to RACGP medical educatorss employed in AGPT, FSP, or PEP at least 0.2 FTE. The hours provided in the table above are based on the portion of the time spent in the medical educator role directly contributing to GP professional development. Medical educators who believe they will spend less time on medical educator CPD than the automatically allocated hours can contact their local CPD Program Coordinator to have their hours adjusted. Where medical educators undertake additional CPD specific to their medical educator role, this can be self-recorded. Remaining CPD requirements can be met in whatever way best suits the professional development needs relative to the individual’s scope of practice (see below suggestions)

Recording a casual external clinical teaching visit (ECTV)

ECT visitors who are employed by the RACGP as medical educators and receive CPD for this role (as outlined above), should not record additional CPD for conducting ECTVs, as undertaking ECTVs is already recognised through the automatic CPD allocation granted by the College for undertaking the medical educator role.

Casual ECT visitors will find guidance for logging CPD for external clinical teaching visits here.

Simple solutions to meet your remaining CPD requirements

Undertake RACGP led educational activities such as:

a gplearning online module relevant to medical education – explore the Medical educators learner journey.
attend an RACGP GP or other medical educator activity
participate in an education research project or
review or update standards for the College.

CPD will all be automatically recorded to myCPD.

Complete a unit of check (browse to find a unit of interest to you)

Completion of most units of check will provide you with around 10 hours of CPD (evenly split between educational activities and Reviewing performance hours)

CPD will all be automatically recorded to myCPD.

Log group or practice activities

The following activities can help contribute to your reviewing performance and/or measuring outcomes hours.

Practice meetings
Peer group learning
Patient or peer feedback (multisource feedback)
Plan, do, study, act (PDSA)
Random case analysis
Case-based discussions

This CPD will need to be logged via QuickLog or the Group or practice activity form on myCPD home.

Use browse on myCPD home

Find a workshop, conference, webinar or online course offered by the RACGP or one of our CPD providers.
Many CPD activities can contribute to both your educational activities/ reviewing performance hours.

CPD will all be automatically recorded to myCPD.

Your Professional Development Plan (claim up to 5 hours of reviewing performance CPD).

Log into RACGP’s myCPD home and use the PDP tool or upload your own PDP.

A mini audit to evaluate patient care or practice-based processes (approx. 5-6 hours of measuring outcomes).

For a self-directed mini audit follow our suggested steps. You can also find audits to complete gplearning, or an education provider’s site.

* According to the Medical Board of Australia CPD must include a range of activities to meet individual learning needs so your annual CPD must be relevant to your scope of practice enabling you can maintain, develop, update and enhance your knowledge, skills and performance and deliver appropriate and safe care. You are encouraged to consider the full breadth of your learning needs and undertake CPD to address those needs.