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Overview and Requirements

The College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand is an accredited CPD Home. We welcome all registered medical practitioners whose scope of practice aligns with intensive care medicine.

As of 1 January 2024, all doctors must be registered with a CPD Home. Fellows are automatically enrolled and there is no additional cost. The program is available to non-member registered practitioners for an annual fee.

The College’s CPD program is designed to foster continued learning, enhancing standards of clinical practice as outlined in:

The MBA registration standard and MCNZ recertification requirements aim to strengthen CPD to ensure all doctors are engaging in evidence based, relevant professional development that supports maintenance of competence and currency

Accessing your CPD Diary

The new CICM Portal is available at www.cicm.org.au/portal.

To get started please follow the steps in the user guide to login for the first time. As part of this process, you will be required to reset your password and set up a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) account in your authenticator app, even if you already have an existing one. This process should take approximately 5 to 10 minutes.

The email address for your login is the one to which you receive College communications.

  • Key Elements
  • Dual Fellows & Requirements
  • College Communication

  • To comply with the MBA and MCNZ requirements, the following activities must be undertaken:

    1. Professional Development Plan (PDP)
    2. Structured Annual Conversation (SAC) Aotearoa New Zealand practitioners only
    3. A minimum of 50 hours CPD logged in your CPD Diary. Activities need to be across the following three categories and minimum hours apply:

    Educational activities: Category 1

    • Minimum 12.5 hours

    Educational activities are those that contribute to a doctor’s maintenance, updating and broadening of their medical knowledge such as such as lectures, presentations, conference attendance and reading.

    Reviewing performance/Reviewing performance and reflecting on practice: Category 2

    and

    Measuring outcomes/Measuring and improving outcomes: Category 3

    • 25 hours combined with at least 5 hours in each category. For example: your 25 hours could be 5 hours Reviewing Performance and 20 hours Measuring Outcomes

    Reviewing performance includes measures that focus on actual work processes with feedback. These activities may include direct observation of practice, multi-source feedback, accrediting/auditing processes, medio-legal reviews (report writing, expert witness) and participating in governance/QA meetings

    • Measuring outcomes includes investigating the outcomes of everyday work by analysing and reflecting on data about their patients’ health outcomes. These activities may include morbidity and mortality (M&M) meetings, critical incidents, root cause analysis and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
    1. Program-level requirements (CAPE) must be embedded across your CPD activities in order to satisfy requirements for CICM CPD compliance, MCNZ recertification and MBA registration. At least one activity relevant to each of the program level requirements must be completed each year.
    • Cultural safety practice
    • Addressing health inequities
    • Professionalism
    • Ethical practice

    • Dual Fellows and specialist high level requirements

    Dual Fellows who undertake CPD with CICM must still complete any specialist high-level requirements mandated by the alternate college. If you are a Dual Fellow, you must be aware of any specialist high-level requirements you are expected to meet in your areas of speciality.

    More information for Dual Fellows can be found here

    CICM is introducing airway management as a specialist high level requirement from 2025. A course must be undertaken every three years. More information can be found here

    College communication regarding change

    Participants will be advised at least six months in advance via a tailored email and College newsletter of any changes to the CICM CPD Program for the upcoming cycle.

    These changes may relate to:

    • Introduction or changes to CICM specific Specialist high-level requirements
    • Minimum or maximum number of hours allowed on a CPD activity; 
    • Minimum hours to be completed in a specific area of learning
    • Tracking, reporting, or auditing processes
    • Any regulatory changes
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    Acknowledgement of Country

    CICM acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the lands across Australia on which our members live and work, and to their Elders, past, present and future. We pay respect to the Wurundjeri Peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which CICM’s office stands.

    CICM acknowledges Māori as tangata whenua and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi) partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.