Accreditation is something that all registered Podiatrists in Australia should think about. It is a requirement of the NSW Podiatrists Registration Board ("the Board") for NSW Podiatrists. The Board has developed the Continuing Podiatric Professional Education Program to ensure that NSW podiatrists maintain high professional standards through continuing education. We recommend all Podiatrists to follow this program and maintain a high level of professional education and practice skills.

The idea of the program is to maintain a high standard of practice and professional development of NSW Podiatrists, and thus ensuring the safety and protection of the general public. Here is some information on how it works.

The Board requires all registered podiatrists to keep and submit records with their application for renewal of registration showing that they have been actively involved in keeping up to date with changes in the field and developing their work related skills by completing 60 points of Continuing Podiatric Professioal Education through the various prescribed means. See the Continuing Podiatric Professional Education Program Booklet for more information.

At CPEI, we have devised a series of high level courses with detailed material in order to help Australian Podiatrists achieve these points, along with the facility to record your details and provide printed evidence of your assessment results.

A great number of podiatrists practicing in NSW already complete adequate Continuing Podiatric Professional Education and will easily achieve the current 60 points required by the Board. For these podiatrists it will only be a matter of quantifying their activities on the annual Log Sheet.

Podiatrists who have had only minimal participation in Continuing Podiatric Professional Education will need to find added activities that will satisfy the Board’s minimum annual 60 points.

The Code of Professional Conduct, under section 19 of the NSW Podiatrists Act 2003, sets out rules of conduct that should be observed by podiatrists in their professional practice.

Item 2 states that, Podiatrists must maintain their podiatric knowledge and only practice at an acceptable level of competence. When applying for re-registration every podiatrist must submit a Log accounting for their Continuing Podiatric Professional Education activities during the preceding year. A minimum number of points must be achieved each year to remain on the Register. The points will be set by the Board and may be varied from time to time.


Podiatrists Act 2003

http://www.podreg.health.nsw.gov.au/hprb/pod_web/pdf/apodreg2003act.pdf


NSW PODIATRISTS REGISTRATION BOARD
Continuing Podiatric Professional Education Program

http://www.podreg.health.nsw.gov.au/hprb/pod_web/pdf/cppebooklet.pdf