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Continual Medical Education for doctors registered in NSW.

The NSW Govt has passed an Act which includes a clause requiring all doctors to provide "details of any continuing professional education undertaken by the practitioner during the return period" to the NSW Medical Board at time of re-registration.

We believe that the NSW Medical Board is expected to include a questionnaire with their renewal forms next year and will mail information about this to doctors in coming weeks. Apparently this legislation has "limited" impact at present but could progress to be similar to the NZ situation where doctors without evidence of CME may suffer deregistration or be restricted to working only in supervised practices. We believe this is unlikely to occur in Australia until the Australian Medical Council has completed accrediting Australian Colleges and their CME – a process that is expected to take a further two to three years to complete.

Meanwhile your CMOA has seen the writing on the wall, and has already worked hard to develop and provide a CME program that can accommodate the diverse roles occupied by CMOs. The program we can provide to you is called CPDP -Continual Professional Development Program. It is a flexible and self-directed means of recording your continual medical education. It is available to all CMOA members for the very reasonable price of $50 per year in computer or handwritten formats.

All you need to do is visit our "CPDP" page to find out full details about this program, including the necessary application forms.

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Copy of the relevant NSW legislation (proclaimed in Oct 2000):

MEDICAL PRACTICE AMENDMENT ACT 2000 No 64

UPDATED 22 SEPTEMBER 2000

NO AMENDMENTS (SINCE ASSENT OF 5.7.2000)

PROCLAIMED on 1st October, 2000
(Provisions to enact with annual return of registration 2001)
[64] Sections 127A 127C

Insert after section 127:

127A Practitioners to submit annual return

(1) A registered medical practitioner must, on or before the return date in each year, furnish in writing to the Board in a form approved by the Board a return for the return period specifying the following information:

(a) details of any conviction of the practitioner for an offence, in this State or elsewhere, during the return period (together with details of any penalty imposed for the offence),

(b) details of the making of a sex/violence criminal finding against the practitioner for an offence, in this State or elsewhere, during the return period (together with details of any penalty imposed for the offence),

(c) details of the making of a criminal finding against the practitioner for an offence committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of medicine, in this State or elsewhere, during the return period (together with details of any penalty imposed for the offence),

(d) details of any criminal proceedings pending against the practitioner at the end of the return period in this State or elsewhere for a sex or violence offence alleged to have been committed in the course of the practice or purported practice of medicine,

(e) details of any significant illness (physical or mental) from which the practitioner suffered at any time during the return period and that may reasonably be thought likely to detrimentally affect the practitioner's physical or mental capacity to practise medicine,

(f) details of any suspension of, cancellation of, or imposition of conditions on, the registration of the practitioner as a medical practitioner in another jurisdiction (either within Australia or elsewhere) during the return period,

(g) a statement of whether the practitioner has been refused registration as a medical practitioner in another jurisdiction (either within Australia or elsewhere) during the return period,

(h) details of any continuing professional education undertaken by the practitioner during the return period,

(i) such other information as may be prescribed by the regulations.

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