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Request to Survey our Membership

Each year the College receives numerous requests to survey the RANZCOG membership. Only a small number of these applications are approved as RANZCOG is mindful to not overburden the membership, and ensure that each survey is appropriate and relevant for the RANZCOG membership.

The Continual Professional Development (CPD) Committee review requests from other medical Colleges and external third parties for the College to facilitate the distribution of surveys.

Evaluation criteria

When evaluating your request to survey our membership, the following are taken into consideration:

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  • The purpose of the survey
  • The length of the survey
  • Construction of survey and how it works, should the questions become specific to various group types
  • The survey is appropriate for the RANZCOG membership
  • The survey topic is relevant to the Fellowship and/or the wider public
  • The survey topic is an important issue
  • The survey has ethics approval
  • The dissemination of the survey is practical
  • There is limited data already on the topic
  • Potential results of the survey hold benefits for women’s health consumers
  • The quality of the survey’s presentation is of a sufficiently high standard
  • The appropriate membership target group is surveyed
  • The potential outcome of the survey does not place the College at risk
  • The survey results are made available to RANZCOG within a timely manner
  • The purpose of the survey
  • The length of the survey
  • Construction of survey and how it works, should the questions become specific to various group types
  • The survey is appropriate for the RANZCOG membership
  • The survey topic is relevant to the Fellowship and/or the wider public
  • The survey topic is an important issue
  • The survey has ethics approval
  • The dissemination of the survey is practical
  • There is limited data already on the topic
  • Potential results of the survey hold benefits for women’s health consumers
  • The quality of the survey’s presentation is of a sufficiently high standard
  • The appropriate membership target group is surveyed
  • The potential outcome of the survey does not place the College at risk
  • The survey results are made available to RANZCOG within a timely manner

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Before submitting your application, please read through the application process steps:

1. Submission

Submit your request to survey the membership to the CPD unit via an online application form with all supporting documentation. Please note that the cost for submission is AU$120 plus GST.

2. Approval

The survey is considered by the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Committee Chair and Deputy Chair for review and approval.

If the survey requires full committee approval, the application will be considered at the next face-to-face meeting of the CPD committee.

We will communicate the outcome of your survey application, be it approved, conditionally approved subject to minor changes, or not approved.

3. Survey Distribution

If the survey is approved for distribution, we will ask you to complete a declaration form and pay a distribution fee of AU$700 plus GST. You are eligible to apply for a $100 refund based on the grounds that you provide RANZCOG with post-survey data. Please email cpd@ranzcog.edu.au with your request once you have the data ready to share.

The survey will be forwarded to our Communications and Public Affairs team to schedule distribution (the survey may be distributed up to 12 months after approval, or 24 months after for trainee research projects; please check with the CPD team for further details and timelines).

4. Final Check

Immediately prior to distribution, the CPD team will check the survey to ensure that the survey content has not changed from the approved version. Any changes (including minor wording edits) must be approved by the CPD Committee Chair. Changes made to the survey may delay distribution times if they have not been submitted for prior approval.

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The following resources may assist you in considering whether to apply to survey our membership. We recommend you review the Criteria Checklist and the survey invitation tool.

Policies and procedures

Please take some time to review and understand the policy that governs survey requests, before submitting your application.

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Management of Survey Requests Policy and Procedure
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Contact us

Get in touch with the CPD team via email: cpd@ranzcog.edu.au