Amplexa Services
Training & Education
Each medical training program is different but all training organisations need to maintain high standards and meet accreditation requirements. We understand every aspect of training programs, from recruitment, to assessment, to trainee & supervisor support.
Accreditation
We know from years of experience that a highly developed training site accreditation program is an essential tool for maintaining quality of training, building trust and respect, and developing communication channels with members.
College Staff & Member Culture
Technology & Data for Strategy
Member-based training organisations are unique professional environments. A culture where members and staff aren't respecting each other's work means reduced outcomes for the profession. We are experts in facilitating the development of mutual trust and understanding.
Technology & Data for Strategy
Technology & Data for Strategy
Technology & Data for Strategy
If it's a system being used in a medical training organisation then we know about it. See how the best IT solutions can improve your data and how you can use that data to set your strategic agendas.
Policy and Standards
Technology & Data for Strategy
Reports & Evaluations
We have experience developing, implementing and reviewing every type of policy, process and guideline document that supports and underlies the functions of a medical training organisation.
Reports & Evaluations
Technology & Data for Strategy
Reports & Evaluations
Need assistance writing an Australian Medical Council report, making an accreditation submission or conducting an external evaluation? We can help.
Association Management
Association Management
Association Management
With years of experience working in the specialty society and association sector, we provide affordable and virtual association management for membership associations or all your day-to-day operations.
We work collaboratively with your board and committees to deliver professional association management.
Training & Education
Policies, Procedures & Guidelines
From recruitment and selection, through to workplace assessment, exams & trainee progression, we can design or evaluate any and every policy required to meet the needs of trainees & supervisors.
Exam Processes & Support
Need experienced staff to assist during exams? Amplexa understands the high stakes and regulatory requirements of vocational exam processes. Having additional staff who can 'hit the ground running' and quickly blend in to the culture of your exam to assist your examiners is priceless. We can also supply psychometricians for exam analyses and evaluations of your exam processes.
Curriculum and Assessment Framework Development
Amplexa works with colleges and other medical education providers to develop curriculums, including development of program outcomes, learning outcomes and working with clients to develop the content design, structure and teaching and learning strategies. Amplexa can advise on assessment framework structure, including development of assessment methods, rubrics and criteria and feedback mechanisms. Amplexa project manages the entire curriculum development cycle.
Networked Training
The nation-wide shift towards conducting medical training across multiple sites and settings results in a more comprehensive training program, but networked training is challenging to implement. Let our experience in this area help guide your organisation, members and training sites towards the best outcomes for your profession.
Training post and site Accreditation
Accreditation Standards
We are experts in developing clear and realistic accreditation standards that meet the needs of each profession and its training programs, including programs that incorporate both public and private settings.
Accreditation Processes
How are your accreditation processes affecting your training program? Are they straightforward and effective or overly burdensome? Are you building on information collected from previous accreditation assessments or starting from scratch each assessment? We can help ensure your organisation is getting the most out of each and every accreditation assessment.
Accreditation Visits
Accreditation visits should be a welcome and valuable opportunity for support and relationship-building between the organisation and training sites. Accreditors need mentorship and well-developed communication skills to ensure strong collaborative outcomes. We can provide specialised accreditor training as well as mediation and training advice for sites that are struggling to meet accreditation standards.
Accreditation Governance
Good accreditation governance results in timely but appropriate decision making and ensures accreditation outcomes feed straight back into your training program. We can advise on processes and structure for transparent, defensible and effective accreditation governance.
Technology for Data & Strategy
Trainee Management Systems
Is your current trainee management system lessening the administrative burden on your education team whilst ensuring trainees have all the information they need at their fingertips? A modern, fit for purpose system empowers trainees and supervisors but can become cumbersome over time with too many modifications and 'work-arounds'. We can look at your system with fresh, expert eyes. We can also help you define business requirements and research technology options for building a new system or upgrading an existing system.
Training post and site Accreditation Software
Medical training organisations are increasingly moving towards real-time, multi-user accreditation software programs to effectively and efficiently manage end-to-end accreditation processes. New software also allows for tracking trends and ongoing issues within sites and across states and countries. This information is a powerful tool for evaluation of the training program and for proactive strategic planning.
Exam Development and Technology
We have extensive experience with the transition from a paper-based exam to an electronic format, including the communications, documentation, training, policies & contingency planning necessary to support a transition. An Amplexa consultant can integrate into your team and lead the process, or evaluate your system and provide independent feedback.
Exam Blueprinting & Question Databases
Need a larger bank of exam questions? Unsure if your exam is properly blueprinted? Need a better way to weight and categorise questions that meets the needs of your exam delivery method? We can help; from exam question writing training for your members, to a campaign to inspire question writers, right through to building a blueprinted database that ensures reliability and validity of exams.
Learning Management Systems
Is your Learning Management System aligned to your curriculum, assessments and CPD requirements? We can ensure your trainees and members have access to what they need, identify content gaps, and help build a resource of useful educational products.
College Staff & Member Culture
Do you know how the relationships in your college, society or organisation are affecting your strategic outcomes? Staff in member-based organisations are administrative experts who must work in conjunction with subject matter experts. Striking the perfect balance between 'servant/leader', 'intern/expert' and 'manager/assistant' takes practice and support. Amplexa has change management experts who can diagnose weaknesses and develop skills across your organisation, including those members in voluntary governance roles.
Members
Do your members respect their organisation and its functions? Have you conducted an independent evaluation to collect authentic feedback from your members? We can apply specific strategies across all of your organisation's functions, committees and groups to build a strong and proud relationship between members and their organisation.
Staff
Too easily a culture can develop where staff feel undervalued by, and frustrated with, the members they aim to support. Alternatively, exclusive working relationships can form between specific members that then create power imbalances and internal factions. We understand these issues and their multifaceted impacts. An investigation into staff culture can easily highlight areas of possible concern and ways to move forward.
Trainees
Your trainees are the future of your membership but they can too often become disengaged from their organisation and undervalue its functions. Now is the time to work closely with your trainees and better understand their experiences to ensure your organisation gets the respect it deserves, supports its future members and identifies members with a desire to be involved with education.
Manuals, Policy, Strategy & Governance
Standard Operating Procedures, Handbooks and Manuals
Minimise your risk and ensure standardisation of the complex roles and functions that can expose your training organisation to liabilities. Our extensive experience and understanding of medical training organisations means we can support your team to produce high quality process documentation with minimal impact on business as usual responsibilities.
Policy, Procedures & Guidelines
There is no training policy we have not written, reviewed or implemented. Strong, consistent, well-categorised and clearly written policy is the backbone of medical training organisation functions. We understand the importance of assessing the audience and impact of each policy and of producing internal guidelines for efficient policy administration.
Governance Documents
Streamline and revitalise your organisation or training program governance, no matter how large or small, by utilising our years of experience in aligning governance. We can write or review terms of reference, reporting structures, member role descriptions, scope documents for working parties, privacy and confidentiality statements, and effective agenda and minuting templates.
Education Strategy
How are your education functions and data outcomes feeding into your strategic goals? Are you horizon scanning within the profession to ensure current training and assessment meets the future needs of your profession? We can run management or team sessions to help clarify and form action plans around strategic priorities within the boundaries of team resources.
Reports & Evaluations
Australian Medical Council (AMC) Reports
We can assist with your annual accreditation report, no matter where you are in your accreditation cycle. With years of experience in AMC report writing, let us take the pressure off your staff and save you weeks of internal resources. We can work with your team to identify and document progress towards outstanding and incomplete accreditation requirements. We can also assist with CPD Homes AMC applications and annual reporting against the AMC standards.
AMC Report Review
Already written your report but need some advice before submitting it? We can quickly and easily edit, assess content, identify gaps and make recommendations for additional data or information.
Curriculum Evaluation
Finding specialist expertise in medical training curricula, curriculum implementation, and the real outcomes of assessments can be difficult in Australia. The Australasian medical education systems are a unique and challenging area of work encompassing multiple stakeholders, jurisdictions and regulatory bodies. We have a thorough understanding of medical training curricula requirements, the day to day reality of implementation, and the impact on departments, service delivery, supervisors and trainees. We can help you develop your monitoring and evaluation framework tool to guide continuous renewal (and the surveys needed to collect this all important data).
Assessment Evaluation
Medical training assessments and assessment processes require continuous evaluation against international best practice, your profession's standards, and relevant regulatory requirements. Evaluate your assessment methods with a team who understand the impacts of assessment, from the trainee and supervisor perspective, right through to reliability and validity outcomes.
Accreditation Review
Accreditation is expensive, time consuming and burdensome. When done right, it is also incredibly valuable, resource-worthy, insightful and vital for strategic planning and member engagement. Is your accreditation process benefiting every aspect of the business? If not, we can help.
Finance and Budgeting
Amplexa has a finance specialist who works solely in health and understands the reality, constraints and needs of a member-based organisation. Let us help with budgets, financial analysis and financial planning.
Association Management
Board Management
We take responsibility for overseeing governance, compliance, risk, and strategy, along with overseeing the day-to-day administration of the association.
Financial Management and Compliance
We manage the association’s finances, including bookkeeping and overall financial operations. Amplexa ensures that your organisation remains compliant with your constitution, ASIC, ACNC and Fair Trade reporting requirements. Amplexa can appoint and oversee financial auditors and manages contracts with suppliers.
Project and Event Management
We take charge of key projects and lead advocacy efforts that support the interests of our members supported through sponsorship programs and more. We oversee the planning and execution of events and conferences, aligning them with association goals.
Marketing, Social Media, and Communications
We drive the association’s marketing efforts, social media presence, and communications to enhance visibility and engagement.
Membership Management
Amplexa handles member acquisition, retention, and ensure efficient membership processes to keep members engaged and satisfied. We ensure member satisfaction through activities and initiatives that add value to their membership experience.
Are you a medical trainee? Get expert advice.
Amplexa is a company that knows how challenging it is to be a trainee. Between your college training requirements, your actual job in the hospital/facility/clinic, your assessments and your home life, things are complicated. Amplexa knows your college. We know your training program; we know the policies and processes that underpin all the requirements; we know your assessments; and we know the regulations and legislation that guide your program. They’re hard to navigate and it can be challenging to get your voice heard. Amplexa can assist with:
· Requesting special consideration – we can help you explore your options
· Requesting reconsideration – we know what to say
· Writing up a complaint – understanding the process and your rights
· Navigating an appeal for the best outcome
· Getting your voice heard if you are a trainee in difficulty or feeling that the
system is burdensome or unfair.
· Wanting to switch training programs or be selected into a program – putting in an
application that gives you the best chance
· Having a problem with your supervisor and need advice – we know your rights
Learn More
If there is a problem related to medical training – our team has experience with it. Call and have a chat about how we can work with you to improve your training experience.
Meet the Team
Tindal Magnus: Managing Director
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Tindal has a comprehensive background in health regulation and research, with leadership experience across universities, medical colleges & societies and regulation agencies in multiple countries. Her broad experience gives her valuable overview of the many systems that comprise the health sector.
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Bianca has extensive experience as a senior manager across specialist medical colleges, specialty societies, state and federal government departments, and health and medical institutions globally. She has led large-scale national programs and projects, strategy sessions, program reviews and medical education events across Australia and New Zealand.
Nick Bradshaw: Senior Consultant
Bianca Heggelund: Partner Director
Larissa Briedis: Senior Health Strategy Specialist
Nick has extensive policy analysis, advocacy, strategy, governance, project management and executive management experience across the health sector, including medical education, allied health and state government. This diverse experience offers clients a range of system level and technical perspectives.
Larissa Briedis: Senior Health Strategy Specialist
Larissa Briedis: Senior Health Strategy Specialist
Larissa is a health policy and legislation specialist with 20 years of experience with quality improvement in healthcare. She has led major programs in health technology, data privacy, workforce engagement, research and strategic governance reform. Her success in change management and project delivery makes her a valuable resource in any role.
Kylie Frazer: Specialist Legal Counsel
Kylie has over 15 years legal experience in business model development, change management, and governance. Her advice provides security for both Amplexa and our clients, from privacy and intellectual property considerations through to contracts and restructuring.
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Assessment Specialist and Psychometrician
Assessment Specialist and Psychometrician
Assessment Specialist and Psychometrician
Amplexa has a qualified psychometrician and assessment specialist available to evaluate, assess and report on all assessment outcomes from medical training curricula. Please contact us for specific information about how he can assist you.
Dr Sam McCormack. Radiologist Educator & Clinical Advisor
Dr Sam McCormack. Radiologist Educator & Clinical Advisor
Dr Sam McCormack. Radiologist Educator & Clinical Advisor
Sam has a long history of managing education programs in public and private training settings and has been an ambassador for the development of network training to broaden trainee experience. He brings experience as a director of training, a state education officer and a college training site accreditor.
Allied partners across the industry
Dr Sam McCormack. Radiologist Educator & Clinical Advisor
Dr Sam McCormack. Radiologist Educator & Clinical Advisor
Amplexa has developed a large network of consultants, businesses, companies and government departments and we are happy to develop links and provide introductions for our clients.