Professional Development

The AAPM Professional Development Program supports and promotes your personal and professional growth through a system of:

Core Principles
Qualifications
Fellowship Program through certification
Continuing Professional Development - to maintain Associate Fellow and Fellow membership status.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) enables you to demonstrate personal and professional development and to remain current with changes in healthcare practice management.

It is your commitment to lifelong learning through education and training.

CPD Points

CPD Points are necessary to reach and maintain your AAPM Fellowship
CPD points are calculated based on the number of management hours featured in an event or activity: e.g. educational workshop, Committee involvement, teaching, etc.
Members are responsible for maintaining their own Record of CPD points.
AAPM allocate CPD points to all AAPM education events
AAPM may also allocate CPD points to external organisations for nominated educational programs which are relevant to Practice Management.
For educational programs external to AAPM, the host organisation will need to apply for CPD Points Allocation, prior to the event. Please click here to view the application form.
Members, Associate, Affiliate, Life and Retired members are NOT required to accrue a set number of CPD points.
Associate Fellows are required to accrue 30 CPD points over a 3-year period
Fellows are required to accrue 40 CPD points over each 3-year period

Please click here to view the Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development Points