The RACP CPD Framework has been designed within the regulations as specified by the Medical Board of Australia and the Medical Council of New Zealand aimed at strengthening the quality of healthcare.
The CPD program follows the calendar year (1 January to 31 December) with records due by 31 March the following year. For example, activities completed in 2026 must be recorded in RACP MyCPD by 31 March 2027.
Note: the CPD Framework for 2026 is the same as in 2025.
2026 CPD requirements
All CPD users are required to undertake and record a minimum of 50 hours of continuing professional development activities. This includes:
- A minimum of 12.5 hours of activities in Category 1 - Educational Activities. These are traditional continuing medical education (CME) activities like conferences, reading journal articles or completing online learning modules.
- A minimum of 25 hours of activities across Category 2 - Reviewing Performance and Category 3 - Measuring Outcomes, with a minimum of 5 hours for each category.
Mandatory requirements
We highly recommend undertaking this as early as possible within the CPD year as it helps guide your CPD activities.
Information on all of the mandatory requirements can be found in the MyCPD Handbook.
Completing Categories 2 and 3
Category 2
Involves feedback from others on clinical and professional practice, such as peer review of records, patient feedback or multi-source feedback.
Category 3
Involves measurement of health outcomes and might include an audit of standards or guidelines, practice against relevant EVOLVE recommendations, or incident reporting/monitoring. You must complete a minimum of 5 hours of activities in each of these categories and can decide the best mix to suit your practice.
This might mean you complete 5 hours of activities in category 2 and 20 hours in category 3. Or you could complete 15 hours of activities in category 2 and 10 hours in category 3.
- It's expected that the 2 mandatory activities, professional development plan and annual conversation will enable you to meet the minimum requirement for category 2.
- A minimum of 2 activities that involve cultural safety and addressing health inequities, and 2 activities incorporating ethics and professional behaviour are required annually. These activities can be completed in either categories 1, 2 or 3.
- The remaining 12.5 hours can be completed across any of the categories.
Embedding cultural safety, health inequities, ethics and professional behaviour in your CPD activities
In addition to cultural safety which incorporates addressing health inequities, CPD participants will also need to embed ethics and professional behaviour in CPD activities.
CPD participants are required to complete and record a minimum of 2 activities on cultural safety including addressing health inequities, and 2 activities on ethics and professional behaviour annually.
More information and guidance on how to embed these domains into CPD activities and the types of activities you can complete can be found in the MyCPD Handbook.
2026 CPD Framework
Resources to assist in meeting the requirements including information and templates on the mandatory activities can be found in the: