Membership of PD Health is FREE with the purchase of any PD Health training products. Your membership is a time and cost effective way of demonstrating your commitment to your professional development. Membership offers a range of learning activities/media that you can use to demonstrate to your registration board or professional association your compliance.

With membership you can interact with a large range of colleagues from yours and other disciplines. Use our unique social media capability to see who else is studying the same course as you and network with colleagues.

Let's look at an Occupational Therapist working in Australia who purchases two e-learning module with PD health and two Read & Reflect's:

• Cost for 2 hour Module: $80
• Cost for 1½ hour Module:  $60 
  Cost for 2 x Read & Reflect's: $30
• Cost of PD Health Membership: FREE
• TOTAL: $170

Occupational Therapy Board of Australia (effective 1 July 2012) has a mandatory requirement of minimum 30 hours of CPD per year.

PD Health activity	Occupational Therapy Board of Australia's CPD category	Maximum hours per annum that can be claimed	Hours achieved
Training modules - One free and four purchased	Category 1 - Formal Learning Activities	25	6-7 hours
Participation in forum, reading and posting on the PD Health blog	Category 2 - Informal Learning Activities	25	5-10 hours
Use of your own PD Health reflective practice journal	Category 2 - Informal Learning Activities	25	5-10 hours
Prepare and submit two case studies with trigger questions for Read & Reflect's	Category 2 - Informal Learning Activities	25	6 hours

In this example an Occupational Therapist could comply with the requirements for annual continuing professional development by undertaking the minimum hours of PD required at a cost of $170 by being an active member of PD Health.

All therapists and health professionals should ensure that their PD activities meet the objectives of their continuing professional development plan.