What types of educational activity are eligible for approval?

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/