Are medical colleges bleeding specialists to independent CPD homes? They say no
In fact, some colleges report a surge in CPD enrolments, says the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges.
Specialist colleges are bullish that losing their CPD monopoly two years ago has not caused membership to plummet, with the associated financial hurt.
By the end of 2024, the Medical Board of Australia had asked doctors to nominate a CPD home that would process their CPD activities, but this no longer had to be a specialist medical college.
AMA WA’s independent CPD Home, which charges $220 a year, said this month that about 1300 specialists had joined it — 40% of them GPs, 9% surgeons and another 9% physicians.
With colleges charging thousands of dollars a year for membership, AusDoc asked the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges whether membership numbers were crashing as specialists joined cheaper independent CPD homes instead.
