Continuing professional development

Continuing professional development (CPD) helps physiotherapists maintain, improve and increase their knowledge, skills and abilities. CPD also protects the public and supports public confidence that physiotherapists will provide safe services.

If you are a registered physiotherapist, you need to meet the requirements in the Board’s Continuing Professional Development Registration Standard unless you have student or non-practising registration.

This standard has requirements on the number of CPD hours you need to complete per year, maintaining a CPD portfolio and CPD activities. The Board’s Guidelines on Continuing Professional Development have information on how you can meet the standard.

You need to complete a minimum of 20 hours of CPD each year. If you register part-way through a registration period, you need to complete five hours of CPD for every three months of registration remaining in the registration period.

Your compliance with the CPD registration standard may be audited. You need to keep records of your CPD activities and your CPD portfolio for five years as you may be asked to give this information to the Board if you are audited.

The standard also notes what can happen under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law if you do not meet its requirements.

The documents below have more information on CPD. If you need more information, please contact our Customer Service Team on 1300 419 495.