AACMA Newsletter - 8 March 2024

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08 March 2024

8 March 2024

This Issue:

International Women’s Day
It begins on Wednesday!!!
"What’s Expected of You?" Join the Guild Insurance Webinar to Learn More About Professional Behaviour!
Learn ‘Practice Essentials’ with Stephen Janz's Webinar Series for your TCM practice!
LAST CHANCE! Submit to Present at AACMAC 2024, Share and Grow in Your Career
AACMAC 2024 Early Bird Tickets are now on Sale!
Save with AACMA Prepayment Plan
ARHG Update: CUA Health Rebranded as see-u by HBF
Moving or Adding a New Clinic?

International Women’s Day

Today is the 113^th Celebration of international Women’s Day. A day that is globally recognised to celebrate and forge a world that is more inclusive of women.

This year’s theme is “Let’s Inspire Inclusion” and AACMA is proud to acknowledge the contribution of all our female member practitioners and AACMA office staff to the profession and its practice.

The International Women’s Day website has much more information which can be accessed here.

It begins on Wednesday!!!

Our professional series of seminars commences next Wednesday March 13^th with Christie Boucher, Risk Services Manager (Guild Insurance) who will speak on professional behaviour and what is expected of a practitioner and the importance of a professional patient - practitioner relationship.

Poor practitioner behaviour has been a growing concern and has seen an increase in complaints to Ahpra, CMC in NSW and OHO in Qld, across all of the registered professions.

In some extreme circumstances, state or federal police are called in to investigate.

Christie will cover all the necessary information that you need to know to maintain those professional boundaries and avoid complaints.

This whole series of professional issues has been designed specifically, to target the needs of AACMA members to enhance their practice with reviews of the necessary codes and guidelines under which we must practice, conduct a successful business and educate members on improving or securing their financial futures, providing much, much more than just achieving the necessary 4 CPD points on professional issues.

The added bonus - AACMA recognises that times are really tough for many of us, so these vital seminars are heavily subsidised or in some cases free.

You will find all the details to register in the Events News below.

"What’s Expected of You?" Join the Guild Insurance Webinar to Learn More About Professional Behaviour!

AACMA Webinar with Guild Insurance: Professional Behaviour - what’s expected of you
Date: Wednesday 13 March 2024
Time: 7-8pm (AEST)
Presenter: Christie Boucher, Risk Services Manager (Guild Insurance)
CPD: 1 point (professional issues)
Ticket: Member $25, Student Member FREE, Non-member $50

*Price includes access to the event recording. Live attendance is recommended, especially if you wish to claim the point for practitioner interaction

MORE INFO & REGISTER

Learn ‘Practice Essentials’ with Stephen Janz's Webinar Series for your TCM practice!

Do you know that the practice success not only lies in great treatment outcomes, but also counts on the attention paid towards the “essentials” in the day-to-day clinic running?

AACMA is excited to present this webinar series with Stephen Janz on ‘Practice Essentials’ to provide guidance to practitioners who are new in their career pathways and assist those who wish to examine and level up their current approaches in the practice.

Topics:

Seminar 1 'Starting a Business'
Seminar 2 'Keeping out of Trouble: Complying with Policies'
Seminar 3 'Tips for Patient Management'
Seminar 4 'Forum on Business and Patient Management Issues'

Dates:

Seminar 1: Wednesday 3 April 2024
Seminar 2: Wednesday 24 April 2024
Seminar 3: Wednesday 5 June 2024
Seminar 4: TBA

Time: 7-8pm (AEST)
CPD: 4 professional issues points in total, 1 point per webinar

LEARN MORE, SAVE MORE with the Bundle Deal!

Bundle Price for all four 1-hour webinars in the series:

AACMA Member $85
Student Member FREE
Non Member $170

LAST CHANCE! Submit to Present at AACMAC 2024, Share and Grow in Your Career

AACMAC 2024 will be held at Pullman Brisbane King George Square from 2nd to 4th August. It is a fantastic platform to share your knowledge, ideas and experience with your professional colleagues and friends.

If there is a particular area of Chinese medicine that you love, an AACMAC presentation is a great opportunity to indulge your passion and research it in depth. The time spent developing and delivering your presentation will be eligible towards your annual Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirements.

Please submit your abstract for consideration to events@acupuncture.org.au no later than 10th March 2024. Presenters with accepted abstract/s at AACMAC 2024 will be provided free registration to attend the whole 3-day event. Presenters can choose either in-person or online attendance.

Don’t miss your chance to present your topic or research results to a broader TCM audience. Download here the Abstract Submission Form and email the completed copy to events@acupuncture.org.au by 10th March 2024.

DOWNLOAD SUBMISSION FORM

AACMAC 2024 Early Bird Tickets are now on Sale!

We received great feedback to AACMAC 2023 at which we celebrated AACMA’s 50^th anniversary. AACMAC this year will be featured with a hand-picked program and filled with opportunities to grow, connect, and lead.

AACMAC 2024 will take place at Pullman Brisbane King George Square on 2-4 August 2024 and be livestreamed to reach a world-wide audience.

As the excitement mounts, Early Bird tickets for this essential event are now available for purchase!

For more information, please visit www.aacmac.org.au or email events@acupuncture.org.au

Save with AACMA Prepayment Plan

Make things a little easier in your pocket by making use of our pre-payment plan.

By taking out a timely pre-payment plan with AACMA you will be able to spread the payment of your 2025 membership fees over ten monthly instalments from March to December 2024 and still access the same discount available to members who pay their fees in full with a single payment by 30 November 2024.

Look for the appropriate form on the AACMA members' portal on the "Membership Renewal" page or CLICK HERE.

To allow us enough time to process your March payment we will need to receive your completed form by 14 March 2024.

ARHG Update: CUA Health Rebranded as see-u by HBF

ARHG have been advised, effective 1st March 2024 CUA Health will be rebranded as see-u by HBF.

The updated website is www.seeuhealthinsurance.com.au and email is info@seeuhealthinsurance.com.au

Any reference currently to CUA Health should be changed to see-u by HBF. see-u should always be in all lower case and HBF in capitals, even at the beginning of a sentence.

Moving or Adding a New Clinic?

Please contact our membership team with your new clinic details by email at aacma@acupuncture.org.au so they can apply to the health funds for new provider numbers.

Medi Bank only update: deadline Sunday 10 March 2024
March monthly updates: deadline Thursday 21 March 2024

Ceased practicing at a clinic, please provide the address and the ceased date so we can advise the health funds to remove your details.

To check your workplace details or membership go to our website https://www.acupuncture.org.au/ then

Go to ‘Login’ at the top right-hand corner then
Click ‘Member Login’ to log into the website your Username is your email address on AACMA’s record and the password you created.
For the first time login, please click the ‘Forgotten Password’ button to set up a password.

If you have issues logging in or setting up a password, please don’t hesitate to contact the membership team 07 3457 1800 we are happy to assist you.

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