Continuing Professional Development
Member Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Certified Practicing Nutritionists (CPNs) have access to AARPN’s CPD Portal. The Portal contains internally developed/curated CPD content.
The following requirements are in effect for CPNs and the provision of their annual 20 points of CPD content:
- In order to ensure diversity of ongoing professional development within the profession, AARPN places a 50% cap on CPD content derived from for-profit business organisations that (as a primary function of their business model) profit from the selling of therapeutic goods to the profession.
- In other words – CPNs can achieve their full annual CPD points [minimum requirement, 50% worth] via
- (1) AARPN’s free developed/curated educational content,
- (2) CPD content and conferences from scientific societies etc.,
- (3) provision of documented case studies,
- (4) approved CPD equivalency work, and
- (5) any other industry providers of educational content who do not profit from the selling of therapeutic goods,
- with members being at liberty to derive any additional CPD points [maximum 50% worth] from any other provider, so long as the focus is primarily on nutrition / metabolism.
AARPN recommends all Certified Practicing Nutritionists undertake the following module provided by Australian Regional Health Group, which provides integral training on the private health industry, as it pertains to Practicing Nutritionists:
https://www.qualiphi.com.au/page/show/1390
- This module has a cost of $35, which AARPN will deduct upon request from the member’s next membership payment.
- This module is pre-approved AARPN external CPD content and can be submitted for CPD accordingly.
AARPN CPD Portal
The AARPN CPD Portal contains AARPN’s internal CPD modules, and instruction for submitting external CPD content.
*IMPORTANT* – the AARPN CPD portal is restricted to approved Student and Certified Practicing Nutritionists only. If your website login credentials have not yet been added to AARPN’s approved users list, the AARPN CPD portal and all sub-pages will load as a ‘missing error’ page. Please contact admin@aarpn.com if you think your access is being denied incorrectly.
Members must be logged in to the AARPN website prior to accessing the CPD portal.