Revised CPD Requirements 2020

No. While the College encourages all ACEM CPD program participants to continue to undertake CPD, you are NOT required to record this in your online CPD record.

Your online CPD record will remain open until 31 July in case you wish to update your records for the 2020 CPD year.

• The 2020 annual Certificate of completion will be available via the current platform for CPD participants that have completed their annual 2020 CPD requirements.
• A 2020 cycle Certificate of completion will be available via the current platform for CPD participants that have completed their 2020 cycle CPD requirements.
• CPD participants that have not completed their annual CPD requirements will receive a certificate of participation via email after 31 July 2020.

There will be no audits for the 2020 CPD year and 2020 CPD cycle.

Both the mandatory and random selections for audit will not take place this year.

You will not be selected for the 2021 annual CPD audit or the 2023 cycle audit as result of being excused from the 2020 CPD annual and cycle audit.

No. An approved cultural competence activity remains a cycle CPD requirement for the new ACEM CPD program. If you have completed the cultural competence CPD requirements for the 2020 cycle, you will have until 31 December 2023 to record another.

• No. The current online CPD platform will only allow you to record activities which take place before 1 July 2020.
• The old platform will continue to be available in a ‘read only’ format to enable CPD participants access to their historic CPD records and certificates.
• The new CPD platform will be available for you to record CPD activities for the 2021 CPD year from July 2020.

• There will no longer be a Non-specialist CPD program from July 2020, you will be enrolled automatically in the new ACEM CPD Program.
• You will have until 31 December 2023 to complete the cycle ‘cultural competence’ CPD requirement.

• The 2021 annual requirement of 50 hours has been reduced to 42 hours because the MCNZ do not require CPD participation as a recertification standard until March 2021 which equates to 10 months of the year.
• The reduced 42 hours will be divided into 10.5 hours for the new CPD categories.
• This is the only CPD requirement to be reduced for the 2021 CPD year.

• You may commence recording your CPD activities for the 2021 CPD year from July 2020.
• Like the current CPD program, you will have one month from the end of the CPD year to finalise the recording of your activities (for the 2021 CPD year this will be 31 January 2022).
• You may record your 2021 CPD activities from July 2020 up until 31 January 2022.
• You will have 18 months to complete your 2021 CPD activities and 19 months to record them in your online portal.

An additional exemption can be applied to your CPD record.

If you are registered to practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, then you must meet the Australian requirements of 50 hours of CPD activities.