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Keep up with your High-Level Requirements

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High-level requirements (HLRs) are specific CPD activities relating to relevant specialties for medical practitioners registered as specialists.

Are you a specialist? To meet the requirements of the Standard*, you may be required to complete and record CPD activities with supporting evidence to meet the high-level requirements (HLRs) approved by the Medical Board of Australia for your registered scope of practice.

Which specialists are required to complete high-level requirements?

The Medical Board of Australia has approved the below HLR activities by specialty in 2025. Completion of these activities is mandatory under the Standard*.Below is a summary of the CPD HLRs by specialty.

 

SpecialtyHLRDomain of Learning
Anaesthesia

A specialist anaesthetist must complete at least one:
– emergency response activity per year
– of the following activities per year to directly
evaluate and reflect on their own clinical practice:

  • structured patent survey
  • peer review
  • multi-source feedback
  • clinical audit.
Educational Activity
Reviewing Performance
and/or
Measuring Outcomes Activity
Emergency
Medicine

A specialist emergency medicine physician(including all fields or specialty practice) must complete three core procedural skills per year:

  • 1x core airway procedural skill
  • 1x core breathing procedural skill
  • 1x core circulation procedural skill.

Educational Activity

General
Practice
A specialist general practitioner must complete a CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) course every three years. Educational Activity
Intensive Care
Medicine

A specialist intensive care physician (including all fields or specialty practice) must complete an airway management of critically ill patients’ activity ONCE every three years that is of a minimum three hours duration and involves an in-person practical workshop, preparatory and post activity components that specifically consider

  • airways assessment
  • approaches to difficult airway and airway emergencies
  • teamwork and leadership in an airway crisis
  • familiarity with equipment
  • CICO algorithms (can’t intubate, can’t oxygenate)
  • management of tracheostomy emergencies
  • simulation activities that should include performing intubation on appropriate mannequins to expose participants to difficult airway scenarios and include team-based responses.
Educational Activity
Obstetrics and
Gynaecology
A specialist obstetrician and gynaecologist must complete an in-person Basic Life Support (BLS) program every two years.
While coursework can be completed online, the assessment must be completed in person.
Educational Activity
Pain
Medicine

A specialist pain medicine physician must complete at least one:
– emergency response activity per year
– of the following activities per year to directly evaluate and reflect on their own clinical practice:

  • structured patent survey
  • peer review
  • multi-source feedback
  • clinical audit.
Educational Activity
Reviewing Performance and/or
Measuring Outcomes Activity
PsychiatryA specialist psychiatrist must complete a minimum of 10 hours of formal peer review per year.Reviewing
Performance
RadiologyA specialist radiologist must complete anaphylaxis training as part of basic or advanced life support training once every three years. Educational Activity
Sport and
Exercise
Medicine

A specialist sport and exercise physician must complete:
– WADA/Sport Integrity Australia anti-doping education every three years; and
– ANY ONE of the following courses in every three-year period:

  • management of Sports Trauma course (MOST)
  • basic cardiac life support course (BCLS)
  • advanced cardiac life support course (ACLS)
  • AFL Emergency Care Course
  • immediate care in rugby course (Level 2/3 course).
Educational Activity
Surgery
(except OMS)
A specialist surgeon (including all fields of specialty practice except OMS) must participate in the Australia and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality (ANZASM) by completing all surgical case forms sent by ANZASM.
If by 31 December of the CPD year you have not received a form, you will need to make a declaration on your AMA CPD Home Tracker to comply with the HLR.
Reviewing Performance 
and/or
Measuring Outcomes Activity
Contact
If you are an AMA CPD Home Subscriber and have added your specialty(ies) to your profile, self-recording your HLRs on your CPD Tracker is easy. Contact AMA CPD Home if you need assistance recording your HLRs.