HETI CPD Home
The Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) is accredited by the Australian Medical Council and approved by the Medical Board of Australia (MBA) as a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Home for doctors.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Ahpra) and the MBA have developed revised CPD requirements that began on 1 January 2023 for doctors. As part of those requirements, doctors are required to be registered with a CPD Home that administers their completion of, and compliance with, CPD requirements from 1 January 2024. (See Ahpra CPD website)
The HETI CPD Home is for NSW-based doctors not affiliated with a specialty college, with a focus on doctors in their early years of practice (principally NSW Health staff), from PGY3 and onwards. The HETI CPD Home fulfills all requirements for accreditation with the Australian Medical Council (AMC), providing members with individually tailored support and guidance in the creation of a professional development plan (PDP), and to plan, meet and log the requisite CPD activities.
Annual Registration Fee $550
The HETI CPD Handbook is available for members HERE
What is CAPE?
CAPE domains are program level requirements (PLRs) are mandatory annual components of CPD to maintain medical registration. Activities must address each of the four domains, but there is no minimum hourly requirement. These PLRs are mapped to the Good Medical Practice: a code of conduct for Doctors in Australia.
PLRs focus on core professional capabilities, including culturally safe practice and addressing systemic health inequities. Members already engage in CPD activities that meet various PLR requirements.
HETI CPD home has mapped My Health Learning eLearning modules for each domain. Click on each domain for more information.
Supporting Resources
Culturally Safe Practice
Delivering care that is respectful of cultural identities
Culturally Safe Practice is defined by the MBA (2020, pp.10) as “the ongoing critical reflection of health practitioner knowledge, skills, attitudes, practising behaviours and power differentials in delivering safe, accessible and responsive healthcare free of racism”.
My Health Learning Resources
- Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing (course code: 420049395) | CPD: 90 mins
- Respecting the Difference: Know the Difference (course code: 39988681) | CPD: 2 hrs
- Respecting the Difference: Be the Difference (course code: 428003510) | CPD: 4 hrs
- Violence Prevention and Management – An introduction to legal and ethical issues (course code: 39964595) | CPD: 30 mins
- Voluntary assisted dying, Awareness module for NSW healthcare workers (course code: 501951057) | CPD: 30 mins
- Enabling culturally sensitive end of life care for Aboriginal people (course code: 367679883) | CPD: 40 mins
- Health for Older Aboriginal People (course code: 238259398) | CPD: 60 mins
- Building a Safe Workplace Culture (course code: 120032854) | CPD: 30 mins
- Clinical Handover: Think, Talk and Write ISBAR (course code: 120032854) | CPD: 45 mins
- Culturally Responsive Health Care (course code: 39962639) | CPD: 25 mins
- Promoting Acceptable Behaviours in the Workplace (course code: 3996553) | 20 mins
- Building a Safe Workplace Culture (course code: 120032854) | 30 mins
Addressing Health Inequities
Supporting equitable access to healthcare
Addressing Health Inequalities ensures that every person is entitled to high-quality healthcare regardless of their gender, ethnicity, geographic location and socioeconomic status.
My Health Learning Resources
- Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing (course code: 420049395) | CPD: 90 mins
- Respecting the Difference: Know the Difference (course code: 39988681) | CPD: 2 hrs
- Respecting the Difference: Be the Difference (course code: 428003510) | CPD: 4 hrs
- Health Equity and the Social Determinants (course code: 242567952) | CPD: 60 mins
- Health Promotion Resources (course code: 43286215) | CPD: 8 hrs
- Community and Inclusion (course code: 129461147) | 10 mins
- Promoting inclusive healthcare: LGBT (course code: 223561775) | CPD: 50 mins
- Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Health Care (course code: 223561775) | CPD: 30 mins
- Let's Talk Disability (course code: 67951622) | CPD: 30 mins
- Enabling culturally sensitive end of life care for Aboriginal people (course code: 367679883) | CPD: 40 mins
- Health for Older Aboriginal People (course code: 238259398) | 60 mins
- Intellectual Disability: Communication Essentials (course code: 507298090) | CPD: 30 mins
Professionalism
Acting with integrity, honesty and respect
Professionalism across duties, qualities and values embedded in medical practitioners to address the health care needs of individuals and communities with a commitment to maintain clinical skills, knowledge and judgement to deliver best practice models of care.
My Health Learning Resources
- Teamwork – Team Development Stages (course code: 39966583) | CPD: 30 mins
- Working in a mobile, agile team (course code: 273434660) | CPD: 30 mins
- Professional Development – your role and vision (course code: 326585728) | CPD: 14 mins
- Becoming a team player from Day 1 (course code: 598863150) | CPD: 30 mins
- Interprofessional Practice (course code: 39966629) | CPD: 40 mins
- MHPiP 3 Collaborating in Teams (course code: 379731998) CPD: 30 mins
- Privacy – Its Yours to keep (course code: 32677115) | CPD: 15 mins
- Health Literacy and Teach Back (course code: 241744958) | CPD: 70 mins
- Introduction to Managing Difficult Conversations (course code: 387021502) | CPD: 15 mins
- Managing Difficult Conversations: Part 2 De-escalation strategies through change (course code: 390333206) | CPD: 15 mins
Ethical Practice
Making decisions guided by ethical principals
Ethical Practice that underpins principles of care.
My Health Learning Resources
- Promoting inclusive healthcare: LGBT (course code: 223561775) | CPD: 50 mins
- Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Health Care (course code: 223561775) | CPD: 30 mins
- End of life Supportive Care (course code: 69280181) | CPD: 30 mins
- Recognising and Responding to Grief (course code: 482866690) | CPD: 30 mins
- Intellectual Disability: Communication Essentials (course code: 507298090) | CPD: 30 mins
- MHPiP 1 My Ethical Practice (course code: 326032422) | CPD: 30 mins
- Ims+ How to Notify an Incident (course code: 3259009870) | CPD: 45 mins
- Clinical Handover (course code: 47857717) | CPD: 25 mins
- Open Disclosure (course code: 487311513) | CPD: 30 mins
- Clinician Disclosure (course code: 49145772) | 2 hrs
- Cyber Security Fundamentals (course code: 349301434) | 20 mins
In each calendar year, medical practitioners PGY3+ working in NSW must meet the requirements of the Boards CPD registration standard.
As an agency of NSW Health, HETI recognises the mandatory training requirements of NSW Health employees. Some courses are required annually, others only once. You can claim mandatory training as part of your CPD for the year as long as the training was conducted within the current CPD year.
A mapped list of NSW mandatory training modules is available to members in Appendix One of the HETI CPD Handbook.
- Reflect and self-evaluate your CPD activity at the end of the year as you prepare your professional development plan for the next year.
- CPD activity can be logged for preparing, reviewing and reflecting on your Professional Development Plan (up to a maximum of 5 hours).
- Retain records of your annual CPD activity for potential audit by your CPD home and/or the Board for three years after the end of each one-year cycle.
It is mandatory to prepare, review and reflect on an annual Professional Development Plan (PDP).
Your PDP should be prepared in the first 3 months of the calendar year. This is the expectation of the Medical Board of Australia.
The PDP process aims to support doctors in developing a framework to guide your education and training, and meet your professional development goals.
The HETI CPD Home inbuilt PDP template assists members in developing a CPD plan.
Further resources are available for members to support the development of your PDP.
The HETI CPD Home team is available to support you to develop your PDP annually.
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As a medical practitioner, daily activities in your clinical practice can contribute to your CPD activities, such as:
- Preparation of education materials and teaching
- Clinical audits and outcome reviews
- Patient handover and team discussions
- Attendance at Grand Rounds, Mortality & Morbidity and other departmental and carer meetings
- Performance reviews, feedback and self-reflection on your clinical practice
- Contributions to your clinical team
- Self-directed evidence-based practice review to inform your clinical practice and treatment plans
- Literature review, pod casts, BMJ, AMJ etc
Remember to link your activities to GMP and reflect where applicable.
A comprehensive list of activity examples is available for members in the HETI CPD Handbook.
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The HETI CPD Home is specifically designed for doctors (PGY3+) who have completed prevocational training and not on a specialty training program.
The following eligibility criteria apply to joining the HETI CPD Home. Members must be a fully registered medical practitioner working in NSW.
Medical Practitioners are not eligible to join the HETI CPD Home if you are:
- Fellow of a medical college recognised by the MBA
- Nursing, midwifery or allied health practitioners
- Doctors enrolled in a medical college vocational training program
- Interns (PGY1) and Resident Medical Officers (PGY2) in an accredited prevocational training program
Contact the HETI CPD Home team for any enquiries.
