Hospital-grade CPD — emergency medicine, prehospital care, human factors — delivered where the world runs out of map. Antarctic sailings, Arctic ski mountaineering, tropical dive expeditions.
OffChartCPD runs accredited continuing professional development programmes for senior clinicians working across the acute and frontline spectrum — emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care, retrieval, rural and remote practice, prehospital care. The curriculum covers the clinical and non-technical topics you'd expect from any high-quality CPD programme — because that's exactly what it is.
The difference is where it happens. We run it aboard a sailing vessel threading between Antarctic icebergs. On a ski mountaineering camp above the Lyngen fjord. On a liveaboard dive boat in the Coral Triangle. The setting doesn't change the learning — it deepens it.
Small cohorts. Expert faculty. Locations that demand your full presence.
The curriculum covers acute care, resuscitation, human factors, systems thinking, and prehospital medicine — the same material that matters in your department on Monday morning.
Every expedition takes a maximum of eight participants drawn from across the acute spectrum. An ED consultant, a retrieval paramedic, a rural GP and an ICU nurse in the same room generate better peer learning than eight people with identical training.
All programmes are mapped against ACEM, RCEM, and HCPC CPD frameworks. Attendance documentation and reflective records provided as standard.
Programmes are led by FAcEM-level clinicians with active prehospital, retrieval, and expedition backgrounds. People who understand both the medicine and the terrain.
Twelve days aboard a polar sailing vessel. Morning workshops below decks, afternoon ski mountaineering on the peninsula, evening case review with a whisky.
Hut-to-hut ski touring above the Lyngenfjord. Structured evening CPD sessions covering resuscitation, human factors, and critical care above the Arctic Circle.
Ten days in the Coral Triangle's most biodiverse corner. Morning dives, afternoon CPD seminars on deck, evening case presentations as the sun goes down over the Dampier Strait.
Remote heliskiing on Greenland's east coast, with a section of the ice cap traverse. Wilderness-focused CPD including retrieval medicine and human factors under pressure.
First tracks on Alaska's vast backcountry terrain. Structured CPD in lodge-based evening sessions, with optional prehospital simulation scenarios in the field.
Ski touring in one of the most remote inhabited archipelagos on earth. Polar bear country. Exceptional terrain. Equally exceptional CPD curriculum.
Each expedition delivers a structured, multi-modal CPD programme mapped against Australian and UK specialist frameworks. You leave with complete documentation — not just memories.
Structured presentation and discussion of complex cases. Reflective learning with expert facilitation.
CRM-based simulation scenarios and debriefs. Non-technical skills in high-stakes environments.
Critical appraisal of current literature. Evidence-based practice discussion across specialties.
Peer-led educational presentations. Preparation and delivery of structured teaching sessions.
Quality improvement projects and audit presentations. Closing the learning loop.
Metropolitan and regional prehospital care, retrieval medicine, and system-level perspectives.
Resuscitation, critical care, and time-critical presentations relevant to ED and prehospital practice.
Facilitated personal development planning. Synthesis and documentation for annual appraisal.
OffChartCPD is built for clinicians across the acute and frontline spectrum — anyone who regularly makes high-stakes decisions, works in resource-limited environments, or manages undifferentiated sick patients. The cohort diversity is intentional: a rural GP, a retrieval paramedic, an ICU consultant and an ED nurse bring different lenses to the same clinical problems. That tension is where the best learning happens.
The clinical content pitches at a senior level. The physical activities pitch at capable recreational — you don't need to be an elite athlete, but you should be comfortable in the environments we travel to. Pricing reflects the genuine cost of running small expeditions in extraordinary places.
The learning that happened at 65°S — peer case discussions over a chart table while the boat pitched through the Drake — was some of the most effective CPD I've done in fifteen years of practice. The setting doesn't distract from the medicine. It makes you pay attention.
We're building our 2026–27 expedition calendar. Register your interest and we'll contact you when a programme matches your preferences.
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