Introducing

Learning while watching conference lectures on your new spin bike is a new habit for most people. Habits take time to embed.

Some people find initially (especially if they haven't ridden a spin bike before) that the exercise can be difficult to prioritize. 

Maybe they start by committing to just 5 minute per day.

Over the course of a few weeks they settle into a routine of 2 or 3 days per week of 30 minutes exercising/viewing.

Maybe they lose the habit for awhile.

12 months gives you the time to establish new healthy habits.

You start to appreciate the changes you are noticing in yourself and the people you interact with.

It also gives you the opportunity for quitting your healthcare goals, seeing how that feels and deciding whether to "get on the bike again" or choose the path of least resistance. 

Then you can make an informed choice to continue for another 12 months of exercising while you learn or cancel your membership.

When you purchase the Personalised CPD Course, you will be given a choice of broad areas to base your course on.

We will contact you and set up a short zoom call to discuss your exact needs and tailor an agenda that will meet those EXACT needs.

The agenda can be used to guide your learning and can later be uploaded to the RACGP/ACRRM portals for self claiming your CPD points.

If you practice in an eligible rural location, the agenda will be suitable for submission for the HWSP or other educational grant body for reimbursement.

Immediately after purchase the Personalised CPD Course, you will receive links to download the ArmchairMedical Apps and have immediate access to one of our most popular conferences.

Then within 24 hours you will receive access to the Clinical Conference Pass, featuring hundreds of on demand conferences.

You can keep access for and watch all new conferences added to the platform for the life of your membership.

No, you can watch as many conferences as you want for the life of your membership. We do not limit your access.

Many of our members watch conferences while they are exercising at the gym (or home gym) or listen to them like podcasts while driving or exercising outdoors.

These doctors regularly watch 30+ lectures per month, allowing them to "attend" a dozen or more conferences a year in their "spare time".

No, it is only limited by your phone's storage.

Download entire conferences and watch them when you don't have internet access.

It's great for rural GPs with patchy internet connections or for when you are travelling on a long distance plane flight.

Members also use this feature to save internet data when they are consuming the conferences away from home. For example at the gym or while in the car.

Yes, the Apple iPhone and iPad apps as well as the Android phone and tablet apps are included.

You can download any conference to your mobile device and then watch it anywhere, anytime, with or without the internet.

Many of our members consume most of their conferences on the apps.

Listening to conferences like podcasts in the car, or watching them while exercising in the gym or home gym.

Most online conferences you watched during COVID were run by people doing it for the first time. Usually the online experience was (how do you say it?) bad.

The team behind ArmchairMedical.tv have been filming and live streaming Medical Conferences since 2007. They've learned what works and how to deliver the best experience for online viewers.

We've learned, for example, that most virtual delegates don't schedule time to watch the virtual live event they've paid to attend, choosing instead to wait for the recordings to be released. (And then don't get around to watching the recordings because they can't fit it into their schedule).

This is a waste of money!

Conversely, we've found that many of our ArmchairMedical members consume 30+ lectures (equivalent of a large multi-day conference), per month, every month of their membership.

How do they do that?

They use our apps to watch individual 30 minute lectures while working out at the gym (or home gym).

They use our apps to download the conference lectures (like podcasts) and listen to them while commuting.

Our Apps are also fitted with time saver technology, so our members can watch a conference in half the time of watching it live.

This means that doctors who listen to a lectures from a conference while they exercise, choose the time saver setting, and maintain the recomended activity guidelines of 2.5 hours per week, can watch a full 2.5 day conference every 3 weeks.

Imagine how many conferences you can "attend" this way per year!

Our Apps are designed to save your time and help you time shift your learning to parts of your day you have already "blocked out".

It's quite amazing the difference this makes!

PS If traditionally, you haven't always reached your 2.5 hours per week activity goals, investing in an ArmchairMedical membership will encourage you to be more active.

Maybe the best tablet for your health is actually an iPad attached to a treadmill or elliptical trainer?

Conferences included vary from year to year, however if you visit https://conferences.armchairmedical.tv/conferences you will see the events we have recorded previously.

You will receive every one of those to start watching now and then as the year goes on, you'll receive every other conference we add for the life of your membership.

If you purchase the personalised CPD Course, then we will extend the special pricing to your colleagues if they would also like to join.

Please share this page with them.

Many of our existing members practice in rural or remote areas.

If you are usually eligible for CPD grants because of where you practice, you may be able to claim your costs back from the grant providers.

Once you join, we will work with you to create a personalised CPD course to allow you to choose EXACTLY what you want to learn. Following completion of the course you will receive a statement of attendance and could therefore be eligible for full grant reimbursement subject to the grant providers usual T&Cs*

*Grant funding is applicable to health care providers in private practice, a non-government or not-for-profit organisation
within a MMM 3-7 location, (MMM 2-7 in Victoria or the Northern Territory) or an Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS), Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) in a MMM 1-7 location.

Courses must represent good value for money and address the needs of your local community. 

The 2023-2025 CPD Triennium has made it more efficient for you to upload your CPD rather than waiting for providers to do it.

This is also what gives us the flexibility to create CPD 'Just for you'. 

RACGP Members Can Upload CPD Points here.

ACRRM Members Can Upload CPD Points here

ACRRM Members can self-report CPD activities undertaken in your CPD portfolio. Simply login to your online profile and use the ‘My CPD Home’ widget. Reflective notes can be added there.

To add activities, navigate to the ‘My PD Summary’ screen and select the ‘Add an Activity’ link. You will then need to select the relevant category and the activity type. You will be required to complete all the mandatory fields and attach relevant evidence.