TV Regulations
Section F - Continuing Professional Development (CPD)Section F – Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
F1 CPD Program Participants
F1.1 Participation in a Continuing Professional Development Program
F1.1.1 For individuals who wish to maintain their RANZCOG membership, it is mandatory to have participated in the CPD program approved by the RANZCOG Board and to meet the requirements of that program as approved by the Board, including satisfactory completion of a Verification Check if applicable.
Participants who have attained certification as a subspecialist must complete the CPD requirements outlined in Regulation F2.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F1.1.2 Verification Check
At the end of each cycle, 5% of the CPD program will be randomly selected for Verification Check. Fellows who successfully complete the Verification Check will be transferred to the new CPD period.
Participants who are four weeks (or more) overdue in submitting their CPD requirements will be automatically selected for a Verification Check.
Participants who fail to provide verification of their CPD activities within a nominated timeframe will be referred to the applicable overseeing committee for review.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F1.1.3 Failure to Comply
The CPD program will be administered by the RANZCOG CPD department with oversight from the applicable overseeing committee under Terms of Reference approved by the RANZCOG Board.
The progress of participants will be reviewed and those in default will be determined by the applicable overseeing Committee in accordance with its Terms of Reference and associated regulations. If, after due process, a participant is deemed not to have satisfied the program requirements, the participant shall have their enrolment in their membership category suspended pursuant to Regulation A. The participant may seek renewal or re-elevation to membership and, on the satisfactory completion of an appropriate program, will be readmitted to their membership category on payment of the prescribed fees.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F1.2 Additional Requirements
F1.2.1 Renewal of membership will be dependent upon the following requirements being completed within nine (9) months of the annual subscription becoming due and payable:
- payment of the annual subscription;
- receipt RANZCOG of the completed ‘Renewal of Fellowship Declaration’ (if applicable); and
- from the 2016-2017 financial year, the annual Practice Profile Online Questionnaire.
- completed any outstanding CPD program requirements
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F1.2.2 Where a completed Renewal of Fellowship Declaration indicates matters that may potentially have an effect on renewal of an individual’s Fellowship pursuant to the relevant sections of clause 6 of the RANZCOG Constitution, the matter will be referred in the first instance to the Chairperson of the subcommittee of the RANZCOG Board appointed for such purposes.
This subcommittee will determine whether the matters are such that they be:
- dealt with under relevant provisions of clause 6 of the RANZCOG Constitution; or
- referred under the regulations relating to the Professional Standards Committee (PSC; refer to Regulation A3); or
- noted with no further action taken.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, February 2024]
F1.2.3 A participant who fails to pay the annual subscription within nine (9) months of it becoming due and payable will cease to be enrolled in their membership category of RANZCOG and lose all rights and privileges of the CPD program.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F1.2.4 A Fellow who fails to complete and return to RANZCOG the Renewal of Fellowship Declaration as required under Regulation F1.2.3 within nine (9) months of the annual subscription becoming due and payable shall have their Fellowship suspended, pursuant to subclause 3.3.4 of the RANZCOG Constitution.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, November 2015]
F1.2.5 With effect from the 2016-2017 financial year, a Fellow who fails to complete and submit the annual Practice Profile Online Questionnaire within nine (9) months of the annual subscription becoming due and payable shall have their Fellowship suspended, pursuant to subclause 3.3.4 of the RANZCOG Constitution.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, November 2015]
F2 Subspecialist CPD Program Participants
F2.1 Participation in a Continuing Professional Development Program
F2.1.1 Pursuant to RANZCOG Regulation F1, for individuals who wish to maintain their RANZCOG subspecialist membership it is mandatory to have participated in the CPD program approved by the RANZCOG Board for the specific subspecialty and to meet the requirements of that program as approved by the Board, including satisfactory completion of a Verification Check if applicable.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F2.1.2 Participants seeking to maintain subspecialty membership must be in active practice in the subspecialty with no restrictions, conditions, undertakings, or any other limitations on their medical registration that would adversely impact their ability to act as a subspecialist.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F2.1.3 Failure to Comply
Failure to meet the requirements for maintaining subspecialty membership in the relevant subspecialty will result in the removal of subspecialty membership and the ability of the holder to use any associated post-nominals and all rights and privileges attached thereto.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F2.1.4 The process of removing a participant’s subspecialty membership is managed as per F1.1.3.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F3 Certificants/Diplomates/Associate (Procedural and Advanced Procedural): CPD Requirements for Women’s Health Participants
F3.1 Women’s Health Participants
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F3.1.1 Maintaining membership as a Women’s Health Participant is contingent on the participant maintaining CPD requirements.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F3.1.2 Payment of the annual subscription fee, as applicable, is required to ensure their CPD enrolment, and
F3.1.2.1 From the 2020-2021 financial year, the annual Practice Profile Online Questionnaire to be completed and submitted within nine (9) months of the annual subscription becoming due and payable.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F3.1.3 If Women’s Health participants do not pay their annual subscription fee by the due date, or they fail to complete and submit the annual Practice Profile Online Questionnaire within nine (9) months of the annual subscription becoming due and payable, or they fail to remain CPD compliant, they will be removed from the RANZCOG CPD Program.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, March 2023]
F3.1.4 Women’s Health participants who have had their enrolment withdrawn will have to apply to the Conjoint Committee for Associate Procedural Training (CCAPT) for reinstatement enrolment.
[Revised and ratified by the RANZCOG Board, February 2024]