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PCS Year End: 30th April 2021 - Upload Credits

As we now approach the end of the Professional Competence Scheme year 2020 – 2021, we recommend that you update your ePortfolio to ensure that your CPD activity is uploaded for the current year 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021. 


As we now approach the end of the Professional Competence Scheme year 2020 – 2021, we recommend that you update your ePortfolio to ensure that your CPD activity is uploaded for the current year 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021.   LOGIN to upload your CPD activity

 

You will be aware from previous circulations that the PCS requirements were adjusted to reflect the current situation in Ireland. Please see outlined below the PCS requirements for PCS Year 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021.

  • All enrolled doctors are required to engage in and record a minimum of 25 CPD credits across any credit categories (external, internal, personal, research/teaching). CPD targets for each category will not apply for 2020/21.
  • Doctors are not required to record an audit for the 2020 2021 PCS year.
  • Doctors will need to confirm that they have met / not met these requirements when completing their annual Medical Council retention of registration in May/June 2021.
  • At the request of the Medical Council, RCSI will be conducting their annual verification process on the 2020 2021 PCS year. Doctors who are randomly selected for the process will receive notification in May/June 2021.

We wish to highlight that the PCS portal has not been updated / changed to reflect the above PCS interim requirements and therefore when you record the minimum requirement (25 cpd credits) for this current PCS year, your portfolio will indicate that you are ‘not on target’. However, please note that by recording 25 CPD credits you are ON TARGET with interim requirements for this PCS year.

 
Message from the Medical Council – April 2021

The Medical Council wish to bring the following information to all PCS enrolled doctor.   Please be aware that when renewing your registration with the Medical Council you will be required to complete the Maintenance of Professional Competence declaration

 


The Medical Council wish to bring the following information to all PCS enrolled doctor.   Please be aware that when renewing your registration with the Medical Council you will be required to complete the Maintenance of Professional Competence declaration contained in Question 1 of the Annual Retention Application Form which will go live on Tuesday 18th May 2021. 

 

Doctors on the General, Supervised or Specialist Division of the Irish Medical Council register will be required to declare that they:

  • are enrolled in a Professional Competence Scheme for the 2021/22 year (doctors must have enrolled by 1 August); AND
  • have achieved the annual minimum CPD requirements for the 2020/21 year (this was reduced to 25 CPD credits for the 2020/21 year in light of the protracted COVID-19 pandemic).

If you have not achieved the minimum CPD requirements for the PCS Year 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021 (25 CPD credits), we encourage you to declare this in your Annual Retention Application Form by ticking ‘NO’

 

If you tick ‘YES’, this indicates to the Medical Council that you have recorded the required 25 CPD credits in any CPD category for the 2020/21 year.

 

If you mislead the Medical Council by making an inaccurate declaration about your maintenance of professional competence, this may result in a complaint being made against you.

 

Please click the following link for further details:  https://www.medicalcouncil.ie/existing-registrants-/professional-competence/important-notification-regarding-the-araf-maintenance-of-professional-competence-declaration-question-1-1.html

 
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PCS Statement of Participation 2020 - 2021

Your PCS Statement of Participation for those enrolled in the 2020 – 2021 term will be available to download on or after 1st May 2021. 


Your PCS Statement of Participation for those enrolled in the 2020 – 2021 term will be available to download on or after 1st May 2021. 

 

We wish to advise you that at the request of the Medical Council the following wording will be added to the Statement of Participation for the 2020/21 Scheme Year

 

“Extenuating circumstances arising from COVID-19 may have prevented doctors accessing and recording of CPD activity for 2020 – 2021’

PCS Requirements for 2021 – 2022 PCS Year (1st May 2021 – 30th April 2022)

The following are the PCS requirements for the PCS year 1st May 2021 – 30th April 2022


The following are the PCS requirements for the PCS year 1st May 2021 – 30th April 2022

  • All doctors registered with the Irish Medical Council are required to engage in and record a minimum of 25 CPD credits across any credit categories

AND

  • Complete a clinical/practice audit
 
Did you know You can use your smartphone to upload your CPD activity

You can login to your RCSI PCS ePortfolio on your smartphone and save the mobile adapted version of PCS to open enabling you to view your details and upload activities.


You can login to your RCSI PCS ePortfolio on your smartphone and save the mobile adapted version of PCS to open enabling you to view your details and upload activities.

 

Click here to see the step by step guide on how to add the PCS icon shortcut onto your phone

 

Click here to see how to upload certificates / cpd activity

Extended Absence From Work

The Medical Council recognise that periods of certified leave (maternity leave / sick leave) longer than three months may result in a doctor not being able to meet their obligations in relation to professional competence over that period.


The Medical Council recognise that periods of certified leave (maternity leave / sick leave) longer than three months may result in a doctor not being able to meet their obligations in relation to professional competence over that period.

 

If you are (or have been) absent from practice for three months or more during the professional competence year due to maternity or sick leave (which runs from 1st May 20-30th April), you should inform RCSI PCS department.  Please complete the Form which is available on our Website or click here

 

We will record the absence on your PCS portfolio and an annotation will be appear against the relevant year on your Statement of Participation. Where possible, you should try and maintain some engagement in maintenance of professional competence during your absence from practice. You may be required by the Medical Council to produce documentation supporting your absence from practice if you are selected for a Maintenance of Professional Competence Audit.

 
Webinar: Recovery from COVID-19: Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore

Wednesday, 21st April at 6 pm

 

Click HERE to Register

 

1 CPD credit for attendance at live webinar


Wednesday, 21st April at 6 pm

 

Click HERE to Register

 

1 CPD credit for attendance at live webinar

 

This week’s international webinar will have inputs from the below speakers

  • Professor Ronan O’Connell, President RCSI
  • Professor Stephen Wing-Keung Cheng, Clinical Professor and Head, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong
  • Professor Premnath Nagalingam, Dean of RCSI and UCD Malaysia Campus, Malaysia 
  • Dr Atasha Asmat, Head and Senior Consultant, Thoracic Surgery Service, Department of General Surgery, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 

 

Calendar of Events

For details on Events approved for External CPD credits by RCSI - click on Calendar of Events