Yes. The MBA Standard: Continuing Professional Development requires all non-exempt medical practitioners to have a written CPD Plan. The plan will help focus your CPD learning for the year to meet your learning goals.

To support you with writing your CPD Plan, you may like to complete our Planning for Learning online module available from our catalogue. This module will guide you through the process of writing your plan.

Before writing your CPD Plan, you may wish to ask yourself:

• What are my learning needs?
• What are my learning and professional development goals?
• Which activities can I undertake to address my learning needs?
• What will my three focus topic areas be?
• Which resources do I need to support me?
• How will I measure my success?
• What is my timeframe for actioning my CPD Plan?

When you are ready to write your CPD Plan, log on to the CPD Tracker and click My CPD Plan. Ensure you complete all mandatory fields.

While writing your CPD Plan, you can enter up to three learning focus topics that address your learning goals. These can be updated at any time.

You may also upload any supporting documentation you think relevant. Should you need to update your CPD Plan throughout the year you can edit the saved plan and re-submit it. Any documentation you have chosen to upload will need to be amended accordingly and reloaded.

If you are selected for a CPD Home Subscriber Audit, your completed CPD learning activities will be assessed against your CPD Plan to confirm their alignment to the plan and relevance to your scope of practice.

Firstly, you need to add your Medical Registration category. If you selected the Specialist registration, the college(s) where you completed your qualification(s) needs to be selected along with your Specialty (up to 3), Fields of specialty practice (if applicable) and high-level CPD requirements if applicable.

Finally, add your Workplace (clicking all that apply) and click Save Details.

This information helps us understand more about you, so CPD Home can suggest relevant activities to meet your learning needs.

The discounted prices for AMA Members are displayed in blue. Non-Member prices are displayed in red.

From the top menu click Hub, then Catalogue to browse for accredited CPD activities. You can narrow your search using the filters.

Yes. The CPD Home Program Guide outlines the types of activities that can be completed under each domain. If further guidance on possible CPD activities is required, contact us by completing our online form and member of our team will contact you.

Yes:

    1. Sign up as a CPD Hub Learner – its free

    2. After logging in, click Hub on the top menu

    3. Review the suggested learning to identify a module of interest

    4. Click on the module information page and click Enrol Now

    5. Pay the learning fee, if applicable.

Once completed, you need to upload your learning evidence to your CPD home of choice. Please note, where a paid learning fee applies, CPD Hub Learners will not receive a discount for being an AMA Member. This discount is only available to CPD Home Subscribers.

If you have registered to a module with an ‘Available until’ date set, but you don’t complete the learning in time, the module will cease to be accessible in your My CPD Activities – My Enrolments. You must complete the learning before it expires.

If the module is completed before the set ‘Available until’ date, the module will appear in your My CPD Activities – My Completions list. You will be unable to review the module after the ‘Available until’ date.

If the module undergoes an update, but you’ve only completed part of the learning, you will need to redo the full module to complete the CPD activity.

CPD Home enables you to enrol in a learning module and save it for later. Under My CPD Activities click on My CPD Learning, the modules you're enrolled in are listed under My Enrolments. Click on the module you wish to complete to start learning.

If you commence an online learning module, but do not complete it, you are not eligible for a refund.

The discounted prices for AMA Members are displayed in blue. Non-Member prices are displayed in red. If you sign up as a CPD Hub Learner not a CPD Home Subscriber, you will pay the non-member fee for learning, regardless of AMA Membership.

To ensure CPD Home is ready to track your CPD and suggest learning relevant to your scope of practice, follow the steps below:

1. Sign up or log in to CPD Home for the first time.

2. Complete My Professional Details and click Save Details

3. Click on My CPD Plan and write your plan. Once you click Save & Submit your completed learning can be tracked.

My Dashboard will reflect your CPD activity progress against the CPD Home Program, including mandatory activities and high-level CPD requirements set by some specialist colleges.

1. Log in to CPD Home

2. Click the My CPD Activities menu

3. Select Uploaded Activities menu

4. Click the +Upload Activity button to open the activity form

5. Complete the form, ensuring you add your high-level CPD activity record to the correct learning domain (i.e., Under Activity Category Type select Educational Activities, then Other, then High-level requirements, and select the requirement as determined by the specialist college, and click Save.

To find relevant CPD activities, browse our Catalogue here.

Yes. The hours for completed accredited online CPD activities hosted in our learning management system (LMS) are immediately recorded. They will appear in your My Dashboard, with your Certificate of Completion added to your CPD record as evidence of the learning.

For accredited CPD activities completed with our Certified Learning Providers, your activity record and accepted evidence will be uploaded to your CPD Tracker within four weeks. The attributable hours of CPD will be reflected in My Dashboard.

Where you self-record completed CPD activities, such as a clinical audit or performance review, you can use the activity form available in Uploaded Activities. Remember to check the CPD Home Program Guide appendix for accepted evidence. The hours of CPD will be immediately reflected in My Dashboard.

Yes. Any additional hours of CPD learning for an activity type under the Domain of Learning will be recorded by the CPD Tracker. However, these hours will be excluded in the CPD Year calculation and cannot count towards another domain. Your CPD Report will list the total number of attributable hours spent on each eligible CPD activity.

To upload evidence of an external learning activity within a nominated reporting period (e.g., a Certificate of Attendance from an event), you will need to:

1. Click My CPD Activities menu then the Uploaded Activities menu

2. Click the +Upload Activity button

3. To reveal all activity types, expand the menu by clicking on the arrow next to the CPD Home name

4. Click on the arrow next to the Domain type to reveal the Activity Type. You will then see a list of activities to choose from

5. Click on the appropriate activity

6. Complete the fields indicated as mandatory

7. Click Save.

You will be asked to choose a file for upload. This is where you can add evidence of learning such as a Certificate of Attendance. Remember to check the CPD Home Program Guide appendix for accepted evidence.

After uploading, click Save again. This evidence will now be added to your CPD record, collated into your CPD Report and reflected in your odometer located on My Dashboard. You can upload multiple files, including learning notes, and review your learning activity. Please note, you can only upload .JPG and .PDF file types.

Yes, you can. Just follow the same easy steps for: How do I upload evidence of my CPD activities?

It may take up to four weeks for the Certified Learning Provider to upload your learning record. When they do, you will see the hours added to your My Dashboard odometer. You can also check if the learning has been uploaded by clicking the View Achievements button under the Mandatory Activity Summary odometer and viewing your summary of completed CPD activities.

If, after four weeks, the completed learning is not appearing, please contact us by completing our online form.

It is a requirement for a CPD Home Certified Learning Provider to upload your completed learning record on your behalf where their CPD activity has been accredited by CPD Home.

When uploading a CPD activity that is not listed in the CPD Home ‘Catalogue’, you must consider the:

1. relevance of the activity to your registered scope of practice;

2. alignment with the learning goals nominated in your CPD Plan; and

3. educational value of the activity.

To assist you with this determination, a checklist of criteria for assessing and recognising CPD activities not accredited by CPD Home is provided on the website.

When recording a CPD activity that has not been accredited by CPD Home to the CPD Tracker, you must declare that the Criteria for External CPD has been met. Your self-declaration demonstrates you have given due consideration to the relevance and educational value of the activity BEFORE saving the record.

A suitable CPD activity must meet all mandatory criteria and two or more of the other criteria.

Please read the Criteria for External CPD Checklist for more information.

You can only upload .PDF documents and .JPG image files. Modifiable documents, including Microsoft Word or TXT files, are unable to be uploaded as evidence. There are many freeware programs that will allow you to convert documents into PDF prior to uploading them. Alternatively, you can take a photo and upload it as your record of evidence.

You can quickly view your achievements within a reporting period.

    1. Click My Dashboard

    2. Click the View Achievements button under the Mandatory Activity Summary odometer

    3. Scroll down the page to see which CPD requirements you have addressed and areas you still need to focus on.

If you think of a completed activity that addresses the CPD Home Program, or if your speciality registration meets a high-level CPD requirement, click Log Another Activity. You can save your activity and upload the evidence at a later time if you don't have it at hand.

You can create reports that collate your recorded learning activities and evidence.

    1. Under My CPD Activities menu, click the My CPD Reports menu.

    2. Click View Report next to the report you wish to access.

    3. Click Print at the bottom to print your report and evidence. You can also click Download Report and have your evidence stored as a .ZIP file for your convenience.

Within six months of the end of the CPD Year, CPD Home will report to the MBA those subscribers who have achieved a CPD Statement of Completion.

The CPD Tracker automatically collates your CPD hours and learning evidence (e.g., Certificate of Completion). This can be found in the CPD Report template for each reporting period.

Should you be audited by the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) or CPD Home, you can use these reports to confirm your CPD compliance. The CPD reports are formatted to meet your reporting obligations.