The Board will undertake wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.
Links to consultation documents will be provided as they are developed.
Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.
Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development
The Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (the Board) has released a consultation paper on new proposed Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Guidelines.
This consultation paper has been developed under the requirements of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (the National Law), as in force in each state and territory. The National Law empowers the Board to develop and approve codes and guidelines to provide guidance to the profession. The National Law requires the Board to ensure there is wide-ranging consultation on the content of any proposed code or guideline. A link to the National Law is available at:
www.ahpra.gov.au/Legislation-and-Publications.aspx.
At the completion of the consultation on the content of proposed codes and guidelines, the Board will consider the feedback prior to finalising the codes and guidelines for approval.
The consultation paper seeks feedback on:
1. Guidelines for Continuing Professional Development
These guidelines addresses issues such as what counts as CPD, an example of a CPD Record, formal and informal activities and the expected minimums, examples, language of CPD Activities, and recording your CPD activities.
The Board is interested in comments from a wide range of stakeholders and invites written submissions on these guidelines.
Consultation Paper on Continuing Professional Development Guidelines (113 KB,PDF)
Released: 11 April 2012
Closes: 25 May 2012
If you wish to provide comments on the guidelines in the consultation paper, please email them to chinesemedicineconsultation@ahpra.gov.au by close of business on Friday 25 May 2012.
The Board publishes submissions on its website to encourage discussion and inform the community and stakeholders, unless requested otherwise. There may be circumstances under which submissions may not be published. Please refer to the section on submissions in the consultation paper for details of how submissions are treated.
Call for Expressions of Interest – Accreditation Committee – March 2012
Background
The Chinese Medicine Board of Australia (the Board) is responsible for the registration of Chinese medicine practitioners, setting professional standards and managing notifications (complaints) about Chinese medicine practitioners.
In June 2011 Australian Health Ministers agreed that the Board should assign accreditation arrangements for Chinese medicine. Under section 43 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act (the National Law) as in force in each state and territory, accreditation functions can be performed by either an external accreditation entity or a committee established by the Board.
In July 2011 the Board was established, and at its first meeting considered a confidential report of 14 stakeholder submissions on preferred accreditation arrangements for the Chinese medicine profession. The Board decided to establish an Accreditation Committee to undertake accreditation functions.
Role of the Accreditation Committee
Section 42 of the National Law defines accreditation functions under the national scheme. In summary, these are:
- development of accreditation standards to submit to the Board for approval
- assessing programs of study and education providers
- assessing overseas authorities
- overseeing assessment of overseas qualified practitioners
- making recommendations and giving advice to the National Board.
Consultation on Composition of Committee
From November 2011 to January 2012 the Board consulted on the appropriate composition of this committee. Sixteen submissions were received and all were considered by the Board. The Board decided:
- The Committee will have five members plus a list of suitable persons to assist
- The Committee will not have a community member
- The Board will appoint a “Board Liaison Person” Expertise in e-learning is a standard knowledge requirement in academia now so this does not need to be a category of membership or selection criteria
- The Board will call for expressions of interest from suitably qualified and experienced persons to be either on the committee or on the list; expressions of interest should address the specific selection criteria.
- The Board will decide on final numbers and make suitable appointments from this process (taking into account a desire for gender balance and geographical distribution) based on the following categories:
- Educationalist
- Chinese medicine academic
- Chinese medicine practitioner with experience in teaching
Call for Expressions of Interest - Accreditation Committee
The Chinese Medicine Board of Australia is inviting applications from interested persons to be appointed to an Accreditation Committee and a list of suitable persons to assist the Committee.
The Board is seeking confidential expressions of interest from persons in the following areas of work:
- Educationalist
- Chinese medicine academic
- Chinese medicine practitioner with experience in teaching
The Accreditation Committee has an important function in the protection of the public and regulation of the profession. The selection process will reflect the importance of this role, and will include probity checks.
If you are interested in being appointed to the Committee and/or the list of approved persons, please submit your Curriculum Vitae and a letter of introduction highlighting your relevant experience against any or all of the selection criteria, to Executive Officer at Debra.Gillick@ahpra.gov.au
by close of business 30 April 2012.
Selection Criteria (select those relevant to you)
experience in course design and evaluation
- familiarity with both the self-accrediting and non-self-accrediting sector
- experience and currency in own field
- experience in health and education regulation
- experience with the complementary health sector
- knowledge of international developments in Chinese medicine education and/or regulation
- expertise in biomedical sciences subjects relevant to Chinese medicine programs
- expertise in teaching and research
- experience delivering a program approved by the Chinese Medicine Board of Victoria
- formal qualifications in education
- registration (or eligibility for)
- availability for these duties