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Ausmed Education

For almost 40 years, Ausmed has provided the Australian healthcare workforce with access to high-quality education and workforce development tools.

Vision and mission

Ausmed’s mission is to improve care through effective education.

Ausmed oversees one of Australia’s largest libraries of clinical and care education with over 1,250 resources available in their online database. These resources are produced to a high-quality under extensive health publishing controls and protocols to ensure that the information provided is up-to-date, actionable and effective.

Ausmed engages subject matter experts from across our health system to ensure the material published is best practice and is in line with the health needs of our population and the clinical needs of the health workforce.

All information published by Ausmed is regularly reviewed and updated, and strict guidelines around the expiration of out of date information are rigorously adhered to.

The resources made available to healthdirect, and listed on this website, are published free of charge.

How Ausmed can help

  • Support skill development
  • Enable professionals to engage in self-directed Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  • Provision of mandatory training resources
  • Provision of competency frameworks and assessment tools
  • Assess and develop workforce capability

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This information was originally published on healthdirect - Ausmed Education.

Last reviewed: October 2024

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