The following e-learning courses for clinicians provide opportunities for online continuing professional development. You can find more courses on individual topic pages.
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Continuing professional development (CPD) resources for healthcare providers
Key points about CPD resources for healthcare providers
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is about maintaining and enhancing your knowledge and expertise throughout your career.
- This page has a range of general resources to help healthcare providers keep up with rapidly growing medical knowledge and technological change.
- Resources include podcasts, textbooks, and videos.
Use this form to suggest or recommend an online course or upcoming events(external link) in Aotearoa New Zealand and Australia.
A podcast is a pre-recorded programme available for download so you can listen or watch on your computer or mobile phone.
To listen to podcasts, you need to download or access podcasting software. There are many free or commercial podcasting applications available, some are pre-loaded on your phone or computer like Apple Podcasts. Others are Spotify, Google Podcasts and plenty more.
You might like to listen to these health-related podcasts like:
- American Family Physician(external link) GP relevant topics
- The Instant Anatomy website(external link) includes a range of podcasts, video podcasts, health apps and brain games to help any health professionals or students refresh their knowledge of anatomy. Website developed by Dr Robert Whitaker, a paediatric urological surgeon who now teaches anatomy to students and doctors.
- BMJ Group Podcasts (external link) – a wide range of topics from gut podcasts to quality, sports, injury and more
- Goodfellow Unit(external link) GP relevant topics
- IM reasoning(external link) Conversations to inspire issues important to medical students, trainees and practitioners of clinical medicine
- Mayo Clinic Q&A Podcast(external link)
- MJA - Medical Journal of Australia(external link)
- New England Journal of Medicine(external link)
- Pomegranate Health(external link) from RACP – a podcast about the culture of medicine
- The Lancet(external link)
Recommend a podcast
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General
Free Medical Books 4 Doctors(external link) is a excellent resource with a large range of medical textbooks for free.
Tools for Practice from the Alberta College of Family Physicians(external link) Clinical questions discussed
Orthopaedic
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics(external link) - produced by Duke University Medical Center's Division of Orthopedic Surgery, in conjunction with Data Trace Internet Publishing, LLC is made available online for free and is said to be "the most comprehensive, unparalleled, dynamic online medical textbook in existence." There are over 11,000 pages with more than 5,000 images and a range of easy to search formats.
Medical databases
Medical Mneumonics(external link) is a free, non-profit, online searchable database to help remember important lists.
Anatomy
The Instant Anatomy website(external link) includes a range of podcasts, video podcasts, health apps and brain games to help any health professionals or students refresh their knowledge of anatomy. Website developed by Dr Robert Whitaker, a paediatric urological surgeon who now teaches anatomy to students and doctors.
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Clinical education resources from articles to recorded webinars, all supporting equitable access to funded medicines. These include:
Do you have a clinical question and wondering how to find a reliable, up to date article that answers your question?
For a brief search, start with PubMed(external link). PubMed is a service of the US National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals. In most cases, an abstract is available and some even link to the full article.
Sign up for regular emails of the most relevant and useful studies, reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines tailored to your areas of interest. EvidenceAlerts is provided by BMJ Group and McMaster University's Health Information Research Unit.
Popular journals
Receive emails of the table of contents of your favourite journals
- British Medical Journal(external link)
- Bio Med Central (external link) Publisher of 200 peer-reviewed open access journals
- BMC Primary Care(external link)
- BMC Nursing(external link)
- BMC Public Health(external link)
- Clinical Diabetes(external link) (open access)
- Free Medical Journals(external link)
- Journal American Board of Family Medicine(external link) (free access)
- Nutrition Journal (external link) (open access)
- Preventing Chronic Disease(external link) journal from CDC focusing on public health research, practice and policy.
Nursing Council of NZ(external link) Continuing Competence Framework
RNZCGP(external link) College Educational Programmes including AVE and MOPS
Part of the work of the Health Navigator Charitable Trust is contributing to workshop development. Here you will find links to the conferences and some of the more recent workshops that are planned or have been held.
Long-Term Conditions Virtual Forum 2022
Presentations
- Welcome to conference (Carmela Petanga) Watch now(external link)
- Keynote 1. Long-term conditions and the interim Health New Zealand health plan (Keriana Brooking)
Watch now (external link) View slides - Southern Lakes innovation in primary care - an integrated wellbeing approach (Suzanne Aitken)
Watch now(external link) - Gout stop programme – System change to improve quality of life for Māori living with gout arthritis in Whanganui (Angela Boswell, Anne Kauika, Mere Tua, Jo Mair) Watch now(external link)
- Telepharmacy - a solution for integrating clinical pharmacists in general practice (Katrina Azer) Watch now(external link)
- Better together collaboratives – Bringing practices together to improve delivery of care (Susan Wells) Watch now(external link)
- Abstract Group 1 Q&A Panel (Suzanne Aitken, Angela Boswell, Katrina Azer, Susan Wells) Watch now(external link)
- Keynote 2. The BBM project and model (Dave Letele) Watch now(external link)
- Transition to home: A DHB led innovation project (Jewel Barlow-Armstrong, Professor Matthew Parsons, Graham Guy) Watch now(external link)
- Osteoarthritis In Aotearoa New Zealand: The case for alternative models of care and different thinking under health reforms (Richard Griffiths, Philip Kearney) Watch now(external link)
- Empowering people towards wellness (Miranda Whitwell, Annabelle Ocinnseala) Watch now(external link)
- Meeting people where they are - psychosocial cancer support (Lizzie Waring, Amanda Tristram) Watch now(external link)
- Abstract Group 2 Q&A Panel (Professor Matthew Parsons, Jewel Barlow-Armstrong, Miranda Whitwell, Annabelle O Cinnseala, Lizzie Waring, Richard Griffiths, Philip Kearney, Amanda Tristram) Watch now(external link)
- Keynote 3. Turning the spotlight on the hau in hauora (Kiri Prentice) Watch now(external link)
- Act F.A.S.T. – A community led approach to improving stroke outcomes (Meisha Nicolson, Julia Rout, Soyra Loza, Tammy Potini) Watch now(external link)
- Development of an on-line group pain management programme in Aotearoa NZ: iSelf-Help (Barbara Saipe) Watch now(external link)
- Te Kete Haerenga - your toolkit for wellbeing (Janine Bycroft, Karōria Johns) Watch now(external link)
- A health quality measures library to inform improvements in care (Tony Mottershead) Watch now(external link)
- Abstract Group 3 Q&A Panel (Meisha Nicolson, Julia Rout, Janine Bycroft, Karōria Johns, Barbara Saipe, Tony Mottershead) Watch now(external link)
- Pae Ora Discussion Panel (Riana Manuel, Carmela Petagna, Janine Bycroft) Watch now(external link)
- Virtual Forum Round-Up (Janine Bycroft, Karōria Johns) Watch now(external link)
Long-Term Conditions Forum 2020
Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora's Long-Term Conditions Forum for DHBs and Primary Care was held in Wellington on 27–28 February 2020. The purpose was be showcase examples of innovative programmes that are improving outcomes for Māori and Pacific people, integrating care across services, consumer-centric care and improving mental wellbeing from across the country.
View videos of presentations here.(external link)
NZ Respiratory Conference 2018
The New Zealand Respiratory Conference was an annual event that bought together local and international experts to present on the latest respiratory topics. The conference was organised by Asthma and Respiratory Foundation NZ and co-hosted by Allergy New Zealand.
Day 1:
- E-cigarettes – what are the real ingredients(external link) Prof Sandra Hodge
- Smoke-Free New Zealand(external link) Prof Richard Edwards, Dr Stuart Jones, Prof Hayden McRobbie, Prof Sandra Hodge, Session Chair – Letitia O'Dwyer
- COPD Update(external link) Dr James Fingleton
- Nurse led COPD Education and Support Programme(external link) Julia Perry
- Advanced Care Planning(external link) Clare O'Leary
- How can climate change affect our health, and in particular our respiratory health?(external link) Dr Annette Dolton
- Sleep, why bother?(external link) Dr Stuart Jones
- Eliminating nebulisers(external link) Shirley Crawford and Natalie Bird
- Oxygen therapy, who and when?(external link) Nikola Ncube
- Pulmonary Rehab in Primary Care(external link) David Chen
- Dysfunctional (yet functional) breathing pattern disorders(external link) Dr Sarah Mooney
Day 1: GP Respiratory Update
- Adult Asthma Guidelines and treatable traits(external link) Prof Richard Beasley
- Child and Adolescent Asthma Guidelines and childhood wheeze(external link) Dr David McNarama
- Cardiology causes of dyspnoea(external link) Prof Scott Harding
- Gastric Reflux and how it affects breathing(external link) Dr John Wyeth
Day 2:
- Becoming a nurse prescriber(external link) Melinda McGinty
- Challenges of real-world asthma management(external link) Dr Chris Lewis
- Improving Asthma in Kiwi Kids(external link) Maggie Scott
- Māori models of Health – ARFNZ PhD Scholarship(external link) Dr Sandra Hotu
- ARFNZ Schools project(external link) Te Puea Winiata
- Chronic illness, a risk to kid's psychological health(external link) Dr Hiran Thabrew
- Insomnia(external link) Dr Alex Bartle
NZHIT Summit – 2030 and beyond
Below is a full list of speakers who presented on the day, with links to their presentations.
To view the videos from the summit click here(external link) and enter this password: nzhitsummit
Shayne Hunter(external link) Deputy-director general, data and digital, Ministry of Health, NZ
Anna Elders(external link) Clinical lead for Just a Thought, Mental Health Nurse Practitioner for Tamaki Health, Chair eMental Health Industry Group, NZ
Lloyd McCann(external link) CEO and Head of Digital Health, Mercy Radiology/Healthcare Holdings Limited, NZ
Dr Will Reedy(external link) Chief executive officer, Spark Health, NZ
Darren Douglass(external link) GM digital strategy & investment, data & digital, Ministry of Health, NZ
Professor Anil Thapliyal(external link) eMental health lead, Centre for eHealth, Auckland University of Technology, executive director eMental Health International Collaborative (eMHIC) and CEO Health TRx Ltd
Maian Johnson(external link) Chief awesome officer, Ministry of Awesome, Christchurch, NZ
Katie Bhreatnatch, GM Customer & Regulatory Partnerships, Airways NZ
Dr Ganesh Nana(external link) Research director, BERL, NZ
Tamsin Bateman(external link) Investment manager, NZ Trade & Enterprise
Dr Sasha Kljakovic, Co-founder, Well Revolution, NZ
Elizabeth Berryman(external link) Founder & CEO, chnnl, NZ
Scott Arrol(external link) Chief executive officer, NZHIT – Introduction
Scott Arrol(external link) Chief executive officer, NZHIT – Opportunities Report Update
Have you ever thought about completing a short course, special interest paper, post-graduate certificate or diploma? The options are extensive with most universities, unitecs and nursing schools offering various courses. Here are just a few with a focus on prevention or long-term conditions to give you some ideas.
University of Auckland
- Master of Health Science Schedule and Papers(external link)
- General Practice & Primary Healthcare(external link)
- 732 Nursing - Leading and Managing Changes in Healthcare(external link)
- HLTHSCI 700 - Working with People Living with Long-Term Conditions(external link)
- HLTHSCI 701 - Self-Management for People Living with Long-Term Conditions(external link)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Education(external link)
- Palliative Care(external link)
University of Otago
- Wellington School of Medicine - postgraduate programmes in primary care and general practice(external link)
- Otago - health post-graduate courses(external link)
- Medicine - post graduate courses(external link)
Unitec NZ
Auckland University of Technology
Massey University
- Massey University(external link) – 3 campuses: Auckland, Palmerston North and Wellington
Whitireia Polytechnic
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