Recertification

Doctors who have completed the Accident and Medical training programme must enter AMPA's recertification programme in order to maintain vocational registration.

The cycle runs for three years and includes compulsory ACLS and peer group meetings (contact AMPA for a list of approved peer groups) and keeping a log of education activities and experience, as detailed in the recertification handbook.

Recognition of alternative clinical experience for reaccreditation

Some vocationally registered Accident and Medical practitioners provide services that are very similar in scope to those provided from a level two facility, but from a facility that does not quite meet the criteria for level two recognition. An example would be doctors practising in the armed forces. The executive committee feels that it is in the best interests of the public that such practitioners be able to maintain vocational registration in Accident and Medical Practice.

Accordingly, up to half such work (four hours per week) can be counted towards Accident and Medical reaccreditation, subject to the following conditions:

1) A biennial log of one week’s consecutive patients and diagnoses be kept.

2) That information on hours of xray and accessibility to x-ray be provided.

3) That there is no other vocational branch that provides training and recertification that more closely addresses the services provided.

4) Approval by the Medical Council.