SIOSPA is an accredited Continuing Professional Development Provider. As an accredited service provider, SIOPSA adheres to strict guidelines with regards to the signing in and out, of attendance registers.
Delegates need to sign in at the beginning of a Conference day / Workshop and then sign out again at the end of the Conference day / Workshop. Only delegates who attend full Conference days / Workshops will receive their CEU points.
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What is a CEU ?
A Continuing Education Unit (CEU) is a measure used in continuing education programs, particularly those required in a licensed profession in order for the professional to maintain the license. Examples of people who need CEUs include architects, engineers, educators, nurses, mental health professionals, and social workers. Generally, a CEU is defined as ten hours of participation in a recognized continuing education program, with qualified instruction and sponsorship. CEU records are widely used to provide evidence of completion of continuing education requirements mandated by certification bodies, and professional societies. The records also provide employers with information on training pertinent to particular occupations.
Continuing Professional Development according to...
The Health Professionals Council of South Africa
The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) has committed to reconfiguring its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programme to ensure it addresses the ultimate objective of the philosophy of continuing professional development – ‘the acquisition of new, current knowledge and measurable professional skills, with an end benefit to the patient or client’.
In this spirit of dedication to best practice and a desire to act and serve wisely and well, Council’s over-arching CPD Committee re-worked the initial draft for a new programme to incorporate the valuable inputs received from stakeholders. For the final guidelines pertaining to Continuing Professional Development, please Click here.
Practioners must please note that the CPD rules were amended on the 13 July 2007 and the effect of this amendment is that a practitioner must accumulate at least 30 continuing education units, of which at least five must be on human rights, ethics and medical law, within every year.
Please note that Council in November 2007 resolved that all practitioners have to ensure that ethics and human rights CPD activities form an integral part of their CPD portfolio as from 1 January 2007.
The current CPD programme will remain in place for Boards that are not involved in piloting the new system, as CPD remains an ethical as well as statutory obligation –practitioners should keep proof of all activities attended (do not submit to the HPCSA) until the new CPD programme is implemented across all Professional Boards.
The only deviations are that practitioners are requested not to submit their portfolios but to retain them, as all activities attended from 2004 onwards (as according to the new programme Continuing Education Units will have a shelve life of two years) will remain to the practitioner’s credit upon the implementation of the new programme and that the number of points to be collected per annum is 30 across all professions.
For more information please go to http://www.hpcsa.co.za/hpcsa/default.aspx?id=183