Ready for Renewal?

With your Ahpra registration renewal due on 30 November 2024, it’s time to ensure you’re fully prepared. Have you achieved your CPD goals, recorded and reflected on them in your learning portfolio, and updated your First Aid certification? If so, you’re all set for renewal! If not, don’t worry—check out the checklist below to guide you.

Ongoing learning is essential not only for maintaining competency throughout your career but also for improving patient outcomes. In line with the CPD standard, chiropractors must reflect on the knowledge gained from completed CPD activities, noting what was learned and how it will enhance their practice. It’s also important to plan and document your learning goals, the activities to achieve them, and your final reflections on these efforts.

Checklist

To ensure that you have satisfied the necessary requirements, this checklist has been developed to help you identify the steps you must complete to meet the Chiropractic Board of Australia (CBA) CPD registration standard. The Board has developed other CPD guidance documents to help you understand and comply with the CPD registration standards. These documents are referenced in the checklist.

  1. Identify and record your learning goals in your CPD portfolio (see Identifying your CPD learning goals).
  2. Plan and record your CPD activities in your CPD portfolio (see tips for planning your CPD).
  3. Make sure your planned activities meet the requirements of the CPD standard: (see CPD activities that meet the standard).
    a) improves patient outcomes;
    b) draws on best available evidence including well-established and accepted knowledge (supported by research where possible), to inform good practice and decision-making;
    c) improves your competence (performance and behaviour) and keeps you up-to-date in your chosen scope & setting of practice; and
    d) builds upon your existing knowledge.
  4. Keep evidence of the CPD activities which you complete.
  5. After you have completed each CPD activity, record your reflections on how it improved your practice in your CPD portfolio (see CPD reflection & CPD portfolio template).
  6. Keep a copy of your CPD portfolio.

Registration Open

Online registration renewal is now open. The registration renewal date for chiropractors with general or non-practising registration is 30 November 2024. For full details on registration renewal, click here.

Have you experienced difficulties fully meeting your CPD? Depending on the circumstances, you may be eligible for an exemption. For further information and to access the application for exemption from continuing professional development form – ECPD-10 click here.

Resources

The Chiropractic Board of Australia has published a range of documents and guides to help chiropractors understand all the requirements outlined in the revised CPD standard, including details on planning and reflections, record keeping and types of CPD activities. ACA has collated these resources into one page for your convenience.

Why it is Important to Keep Up Your First Aid Skills

“Recently, a life-or-death situation unfolded in my practice that underscored the vital importance of maintaining up-to-date first aid skills. A 22-month-old boy came into the practice and suffered a febrile convulsion, which led to a significant drop in his blood sugar levels. Suddenly, he stopped breathing. As we waited for the ambulance to arrive, I had to rely on my first aid training to perform CPR, and thankfully, we managed to revive him before the paramedics arrived. This experience was a stark reminder of how crucial it is to keep up with first aid training—not just to meet registration requirements but because, as chiropractors, we may be the first responders in a medical emergency. Whether in practice or at home, these skills could save a life. If there’s one message I’d like to share with my colleagues, it’s this: First aid isn’t just a box to tick; it’s an essential tool that may one day make the difference between life and death.”

– Dr Gabriella Palomares (Buderim Chiropractic)

As part of your registration requirements to practice Chiropractic in Australia the CBA Board requires that registered chiropractors maintain at least a first aid qualification equivalent to HLTAID009 Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). This qualification is valid for one year and needs to be updated each year. Alternatively, chiropractors may choose to meet this requirement by holding a first aid qualification equivalent to HLTAID011 Provide First Aid (valid for three years and needs to be updated every three years).

To assist you in meeting the First Aid requirements, ACA has coordinated a special rate exclusively for our members with the Red Cross. For more information visit www.chiropractors.org.au/first-aid-offer