Courses and events
Whether you are interested in becoming part of the vaccinator workforce, or just want to keep up to date, we provide a range of educational opportunities for you. We offer accredited courses to become an authorised vaccinator, a pharmacist vaccinator, or a vaccinating health worker, as well as two-yearly vaccinator update courses. As well as these we have vaccine-specific courses, immunisation register administration courses and many others. We also offer events such as information sessions, webinars, symposiums, workshops, and conferences.
The 2024 Education course schedule is now available to view. Courses and events are online, face-to-face and blended (mixture of online and face-to-face).
Check out our workforce pages to explore the different roles in the immunisation workforce.
Our course standards are available on request.
To find out more or register for specific courses and events have a look at our current courses.
If you're a provisionally authorised vaccinator (PAV) looking to become a fully authorised or pharmacist vaccinator, please register for a flexible learning vaccinator foundation course here. Only PAVs that are registered/enrolled nurses, pharmacists and midwives are eligible to register for the flexible learning vaccinator foundation course.
Prior to April 2023, the Vaccinator Bridging Course (VBC) was available as an option for PAVs to complete to become a fully authorised or pharmacist vaccinator. It is now closed for registrations. Those who have completed the VBC prior to 5 April 2023 but have not completed the other requirements as outlined in the Immunisation Handbook Appendix 4 are encouraged to do this and apply to their local Medical Officer of Health for full vaccinator authorisation.
In addition to education courses, IMAC also holds workshops, symposiums and webinars.
Each year we hold a National Immunisation Workshop designed for frontline vaccinators, health care professionals and immunisation coordinators. The topics tend to focus on practical aspects of service delivery and communication, but there are also clinical and technical updates.
Every second year, the workshop is combined with the National Immunisation Conference. The conference has a more academic focus, presenting recent research from areas of immunology, vaccinology, policy development and other topics. The conference attendees are usually a mix of workshop attendees and additional health professional, local and central government staff.
We also often hold webinars that address current issues of interest to the immunisation workforce.
Other regular events include the Influenza Symposium, Professional Development Days and Well Child Symposium.
We also provide access to recordings of past events. These can be accessed via our ‘past events’ listings. These are also hosted on IMAC’s LMS, so an account and registration for past events is also required to access the content.
