Become a Health Specialisation Certified Professional

 

Register

 

To register for the ALIA PD Scheme Health Specialisation, you must have ALIA membership and can then join the ALIA PD Scheme. You can register to join at any time during the calendar year; your PD activities can always be backdated to 1 July of the year you joined.

Certification

 

The Certified Professional Health Specialisation will be distinguished with the post nominals of AALIA (CP) Health Librarian or AALIA (CP) Health for Associate members, ALIATec (CP) Health for Library technician members and ALIA Allied Field (CP) Health for Allied Field members.

Competencies

 

1. Health reference and information services

2. Health data, information and knowledge management

3. Health information literacy and educating for evidence-based inquiry

4. Digital health and technologies

5. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health context

6. The health environment, communities and stakeholders

7. Health research

8. Health leadership and management

9. Health professionalism

 

Audit

 

Compliance will be assessed with an annual random audit of 10% of ALIA PD Scheme Specialisation members requiring proof of a minimum of 30 PD points. A full 120 PD point audit will be required before the awarding of a Specialisation Certified Professional Certificate and listing on the website at the end of your triennium. A quality reflective learning outcome shall generally be considered sufficient proof for a PD activity, and the reflection must refer to the competency or competencies addressed by the activity.

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