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REMINDER: Renew Your PCS Enrolment 1st May 2021 - 30th April 2022

It is now time to remind you to renew your Professional Competence Scheme enrolment for the new PCS Year  commencing 1st May 2021 - 30th April 2022.


We wish to remind you to renew your Professional Competence Scheme enrolment for the new PCS Year commencing 1st May 2021 - 30th April 2022.     This year the Medical Council registration retention form advises doctors that they must pay their PCS enrolment fee for 2021 – 2022 prior to retaining their registration with the Medical Council

 

Doctors will also be required to indicate on the retention form which Postgraduate Training Body they have enrolled on PCS with and declare that they have paid their enrolment fee for their PCS.  

This means that you must now pay your PCS enrolment fee for PCS year 2021 – 2022 prior to retaining your registration with the Medical Council in June 2021. 

If you are no longer on the Supervised, General, or Specialist section of the (Irish) Medical Council’s Register please notify this office by email pcs@rcsi.ie as this will allow us update our records and ensure that you do not receive unnecessary communication in relation to the PCS

 
Re-enrol
 by paying your fee online using your credit card click https://pcs.rcsi.ie


Fellows and members of RCSI who wish to pay their Fellowship/Membership subscription fee at the same time are entitled to a discount, when paying the PCS fee and Fellows and Members subscription fee together on the dedicated Fellowship & Membership Portal (FAMP) https://famp.rcsi.i

  

If you have any difficulty with this, please do not hesitate to contact the PCS office at pcs@rcsi.ie

PCS Year End: 30th April 2021 – You can still Upload Credits

Please note you can still upload valid credits for the PCS term 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021.   


Please note you can still upload valid credits for the PCS term 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021.

 

Please note that the requirements for the PCS year 1st May 2020 – 30th April 2021 is that you are required to reach a total of 25 CPD credits.  These 25 CPD credits can be recorded in any of the Categories (External/Internal/Personal Learning / Research or Teaching). 

 

You should now login to your PCS profile and review your credits.  

 If you have not:

  • Identified and recorded additional credits that bring your total credits to the minimum level required, 25 CPD credits
  • uploaded or have available all the appropriate evidence to support your CPD credits for the completed PCS year (which ended 30 April 2021),

 

then it would be appropriate, when you complete the Annual Retention Form (ARF) with the Medical Council, to tick NO to statement 2 “I have achieved the annual minimum CPD requirements for the Scheme Year 2020 / 21     [YES/NO] “

 

We wish to highlight that the PCS portal has not been updated / changed to reflect the above PCS requirements and therefore when you record the minimum requirement (25 cpd credits) for this 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  requirements for this PCS year.

 

Please note that the following wording has been added to the Statement of Participation for the 2020 - 2021 PCS year as requested by the Medical Council.

 

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

 
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2021 - 2022 - Revised Framework for Maintenance of Professional Competence

Please note that the 2021/22 Professional Competence Scheme Year, the Framework for Maintenance of Professional Competence Activity has been modified. For the 2021/22 Professional Competence Scheme Year the following applies: 


For the 2021/22 Professional Competence Scheme Year the following applies: 

  • Doctors are required to record 25 CPD credits of the 50 CPD credit total with their Scheme.  These 25 cpd credis can be recorded in any CPD category (external, internal, personal learning, research/teaching).  CPD targets for each category do not apply for 2021/22
AND
  • Complete one clinical / practice Audit
 
RCSI continue to encourage you to take a broader approach, where it is possible to do so, to ensure you participate in at least 20 hours of external activities (these can be online courses / seminars / conferences / webinars etc) , participate and record your attendance at 20 hours of hospital based events like Grand Rounds, MDTs and quality improvement activities (even if these are by web conference).  You should continue to read, particularly the key journals for your specialty, and record your reading under the personal learning category.   
 
We ask that you reflect on your own practice (including the lessons from audit), consult with your peers or consultant colleague, and plan your Professional Development needs early in the PCS year.  Please click here for the Professional Development Plan (PDP) template and we encourage you to complete this and upload the completed plan to your PCS portfolio and claim the relevant CPD credits. 
 
Professional Development Plan

Creating a PDP at the beginning of each Professional Competence Scheme year encourages you to plan your activities during the year and to set out goals for your personal development. It can also be used to reflect on and monitor your progress during the year. The aim of creating a Professional Development Plan (PDP) is to document a process of self-analysis and set new and clearly definable educational goals for yourself in advance of the Professional Competence Scheme each year. 


Creating a PDP at the beginning of each Professional Competence Scheme year encourages you to plan your activities during the year and to set out goals for your personal development. It can also be used to reflect on and monitor your progress during the year. The aim of creating a Professional Development Plan (PDP) is to document a process of self-analysis and set new and clearly definable educational goals for yourself in advance of the Professional Competence Scheme each year.

 

It is not currently compulsory to complete a Professional Development Plan, however it is recommended that you do so.    

 

Complete your Professional Development Plan and claim two CPD credits in the Internal Category

 

Having completed your PDP you may choose to review it with a professional colleague and you may each claim one CPD Credit in the Internal Category

 

At the end of the year (April 30th), you should review your PDP and assess whether you have met your goals.  You may claim one CPD credit in the Internal Category for reviewing your PDP at the end of the year. 

 

Full guidelines and forms are available HERE

RCSI Guidelines & Resources

GDPR deletion of historic records in your RCSI Professional Competence Scheme EPortfolio

The Medical Council requires that records are kept for a period of six years, (current PCS year plus previous five years), to fulfil obligations under the MPA 200.


The Medical Council requires that records are kept for a period of six years, (current PCS year plus previous five years), to fulfil obligations under the MPA 200.   GDPR places significant obligations on organisations in relation to the processing of personal data and the data protection principles are a set of rules, which we must follow to ensure that we are processing personal data in accordance with the law.

 

According to these principles, RCSI Professional Competence Scheme, must only collect, use and store the personal data it requires to fulfil the legitimate business purposes that it has identified. In order to ensure that it is complying with the principle of Data Minimisation, this requires us to identify the minimum amount of personal data needed to properly fulfil the business purpose. We should collect and hold no more than this minimum amount.

 

Furthermore, under the principle of Storage Limitation, we are required to hold personal data no longer than necessary for the purpose by which it was obtained. Ensuring personal data is disposed of when no longer needed, helps to reduce the risk that it will become inaccurate, out of date or irrelevant.

 

With this in mind, RCSI PCS will shortly be contacting all registered medical practitioners who have records older than six years on their PCS portfolio – that is all records from PCS year 1st May 2015 – 30th April 2016 will be deleted on Friday 16th July 2021

 

We ask that if you want to retain any of your records we would encourage you to login to your portfolio and review your personal data stored by RCSI Professional Competence Scheme, and download these documents.   Please click HERE for Guidelines on How to Download your documents / records and retain elsewhere. 

 

Should you have any queries, please contact Marie O'Boyle at the PCS Office pcs@rcsi.ie

 
Save The Date - Wednesday 26th May 2021

Join our Wednesday webinar at 6pm which will be a discussion around Medicolegal update: The implications of Covid-19, Claims for Compensation and Tort Reform 

Click HERE to register

 

1 CPD credit for attendance at live webinar


Calendar Of Events

For details on Events approved for CPD credits, please click on Calendar of Events