To be eligible, your educational activity event must:
 

  • take place in Ireland or be delivered online for Irish doctors using a tool such as Zoom or Panopto
  • target doctors who are not engaged in postgraduate specialist training
  • include learning objectives that have measurable outcomes and use action verbs such as ‘evaluate’, ‘identify’, ‘review’
  • meet our policy on Industry Sponsorship and Support in respect of sponsorship arrangements
  • have a designated Medical Organiser who holds Specialist Registration with the Irish Medical Council
  • not take place in the past
  • not contain the name of a sponsor or product in its event and session/lecture titles
  • not contain a sponsor’s corporate message, product name or logo on any of the educational material, which includes the event programme, poster presentations, slides, handouts and so on
  • You must provide evidence of attendance to all those who participated in the activity
  • You must keep a record of all those who participated in the activity for a period of 12 months after the date the activity took place. You may be asked to provide a copy of this record in the future
  • You must provide a means for your attendees to give you post-event feedback about:
    • Improvements in knowledge, skills, competencies during and/or after the approved activity
    • Intent to change during and/or after the approved activity
    • Improvements in learner performance (where applicable)
    • Changes in patient health status (where practical)

*You can download our policy on Industry Sponsorship and Support from https://www.rcpi.ie/professional-competence/cpd-approval-of-events/