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Worried you don’t have enough CPD hours?

If you think you will not be able to meet AHPRA’s mandatory registration requirements for CPD (20 hours per year, 30 hours per year if therapeutically endorsed), please call our Optometrists Advisors on (03) 9668 8500 or email cpd@optometry.org.au for support and confidential advice.

 

Free online CPD for members

  • Visit Optometry Australia’s Institute of Excellence (CPD online) for a full catalogue of best practice CPD modules curated just for you.
  • Did you know that each issue of  Optometry Connection magazine can credit you with 4 hours of CPD per each issue, as long as you read the issue and answer 20 multiple choice questions online?

Need more interactive hours?

  • Visit Optometry Australia’s CPD events and click on the ‘interactive’ tab under ‘event type’ to filter all interactive activities that has been quality-assured by our Institute of Excellence.  Check in regularly to this CPD events page as new events will be frequently added.

Visit CPD FAQs

Please email cpd@optometry.org.au or call our Optometry Advisors on (03) 9668 8500 for confidential and complimentary support on CPD.

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