Program level requirements - a guide for 2025
What Are Program Level Requirements?
As part of your CPD program requirements, it is mandatory that each doctor does at least one activity that is WHOLY OR SUBSTANTIALLY related to each of these issues:
Culturally Safe Practice
Health Inequalities
Professionalism
Medical Ethics
Definitions & Examples of Activities
AHPRA have a set of standards outlined in the Code of Conduct for Doctors in Australia
Each activity must be of sufficient depth and quality to meet the learning objective and be from a credible and respected organisation or individual with expertise in the topic.
Of note, an activity may meet criteria for multiple areas but you can only log it for one.
The following is a guide to each area:
Culturally Safe Practice
Working with patients
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Cultural Safety
Cultural Safety for all communities
Working within the healthcare system
Health advocacy
Example: Listen to the podcast Clinical Yarning
Health Inequalities
Working with patients
Children and young people
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
Patients of other culturally or linguistically diverse backgrounds
Patients with additional needs
Relatives, carers and partners
Working within the healthcare system
Wise use of healthcare resources
Health advocacy
Public Health
Example: Listen to the podcast The Water Well Project- improving Health Literacy in migrant, refugee and asylum seeker communities
Professionalism
Professional behaviour
professional values and qualities of doctors
trust in the healthcare profession
Providing good care
treatment in emergencies
adverse events
complaints
Respectful culture
medical colleagues and other health professionals
teamwork
Patient safety and minimising risk
risk management
performance - yourself and your colleagues
Maintaining professional performance
continuing professional development
Professional behaviour
reporting obligations
accurate medical records
insurance
Doctor Health
caring for yourself - mental and physical health
Teaching and supervising
Example: Read Changing Places - How to survive changing workplaces and rotations
Ethical Practice
Providing good care
shared decision making
access to medical care
Working with patients
doctor-patient relationship
effective communication
confidentiality and privacy
informed consent
end of life care
ending a professional relationship
providing care to those close to you
Respectful Culture
discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment
Professional performance and behaviour
career transitions
professional boundaries
conflict of interest
financial and commercial dealings
Research ethics
Example: Completing one of the End of Life Law for Clinicians modules
How do I log this in my CPD?
Using Osler Content
Osler has a library of resources dedicated to these mandatory requirements.
When you complete an activity that is classified as one of these areas, the CPD activity record will automatically be tagged with one of the 4 requirements (you can't edit this), and the tile on your dashboard will change colour to dark blue to reflect that you have completed the task.
For example if you read the article SMART goals the Professionalism tile would automatically register that you have completed this mandatory requirement.
Activity successfully logged as a professionalism activity
Using online/other resources
If you wish to do an activity that is not part of the library- for example you attend a lecture on ethics of organ donation - tick the box on your CPD activity record stating that it meets the chosen mandatory program level requirement when logging the activity. This example would fulfil the Ethical Practice requirement.
Once you tick the box, the tile will change colour to dark blue on your dashboard to reflect that you have completed that requirement.
Below is a further example of how to log an activity - reading about Communicating Effectively with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Patients for Culturally Safe Practice.
Example of how to log an activity that is not from the Osler site