Optometry Australia continues its commitment to creating a culture of Respect. Always! within optometry
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the mandatory registration requirement for all optometrists registered to work in Australia. Registration is mandated by AHPRA, via The Optometry Board of Australia (OBA).
Launched in 2019, the Optometry Australia Institute of Excellence has been purpose-built to ensure that optometrist members can identify and access high quality CPD which is quality-assured by Optometry Australia
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When you become an Optometry Australia Quality Assured CPD provider, you may become recognised for the quality education and training you provide to optometrists, which helps them to meet their CPD requirements and learning needs.
Optometry Australia provides quality assurance of CPD activities that meet the requirements developed by the OBA as required under the national Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009.
Institute of Excellence Quality Assurance is not required by the OBA, but it enables CPD providers to:
Delivering a CPD activity that is not quality assured by Optometry Australia results in additional record-keeping requirements for optometrists and their attendance may not be suitable in meeting their professional development needs. This can impact on the attendance of such CPD activities by optometrists.
Questions? Contact our CPD team at cpd@optometry.org.au or call 1800 393 273.
In the spirit of reconciliation Optometry Australia acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.