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List of Continuing Professional Education Activities

CPE Categories

Category

Type of Event

Participating Role

Points

Submitted by

1A
Local Events (Pre-approved)

- Consists of local events pre-approved by AHPC. This category can include synchronous online events. Only applicable to CETs.

• Lectures / Talks
• Teaching sessions / Tutorials
• Case study presentations
• Journal clubs
• Special interest groups

• Facilitator
• Speaker
• Participant

• 1 point/hour

CPE Provider

1B
-Local Events (Ad-hoc)
-
Post-graduate Course (Local)

- Consists of AHPC-approved ad-hoc educational events that are one hour or more related to professional practice. This category can include synchronous online events. Includes post-graduate studies with local autonomous universities/polytechnics.

• Conference / Seminar
• Scientific meeting
• Structured formal & skills-based courses
• Lectures
• Workshops / Practical sessions
• Special interest groups

• Facilitator
• Speaker
• Presenter
• Participant

• 4 points/day of educational event

CPE Provider

• Local post-graduate studies

• Post-graduate student (with formal award)

• 1 point/hour

AHPs

• Basic Cardiac Life Support course

• Participant

• 4 points

AHPs

1C
-International Events
-Post-graduate Course (International)

- Consists of international continuing education programmes related to professional practice. This category can include synchronous international online events. Includes international post-graduate studies.

• Conference / Seminar
• Scientific meeting
• Structured formal & skills-based courses
• Workshops / Practical sessions
• Overseas attachment

• Speaker
• Presenter
• Participant

• 4 points/day of educational event

(Capped at 40 points for overseas attachments)

AHPs

• International post-graduate studies

(Includes online and international universities with local campuses)

• Post-graduate student (with formal award)

• 4 points/day of educational event

(Capped at 40 points for ‘online-only’ programmes)

AHPs

1D
Supervised Learning

- Consists of
a) providing formal clinical practice education supervision to student from the same profession. The supervision conforms to set supervisory framework.

b) formal local attachments with attachment outcomes

• Clinical practice education (min. 2 students/block)

• Attachments with structured programme (min. 5 days and 2 supervisees)

• Clinical educator
• Supervisor

• 5 points/ block of clinical placement education or block of attachment for supervisors

(Capped at 40 points)

AHPs

• Supervisee

• 4 points/ block of attachment for supervisees

(Capped at 40 points)

AHPs

2
Publications

- Consists of editorial/peer reviews and original publications of journal articles, textbooks, presentation of original paper/poster related to professional practice/domain and authoring of online practice oriented educational modules related to professional practice/domain.

• Book
• Journal
• Online publications
• MOH Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Creation of online modules with assessments

• Author
• Editor

• 5 points/ journal or CPG or textbook chapter

(Capped at 40 points)

AHPs

• Co-author
• Co-editor
• Reviewer
• Presenter

• 2 points/ journal or CPG or textbook chapter

(Capped at 40 points)

AHPs

3A
Self-directed Learning (Without verifiable assessment)

- Consists of reading of peer-reviewed journal articles, chapter in practice relevant textbook, published clinical/practice guidelines/protocols without verifiable assessment.

• E-learning
• Readings (peer-reviewed journals or recent published textbooks)
• Published clinical/practice guidelines

• Participant

• 2 points/ journal or textbook chapter or CPG

(Capped at 20 points

AHPs

3B
Self-directed Learning (With verifiable assessment)

- Consists of reading of practice oriented online learning/peer reviewed articles/textbook (with assessment). This category can include asynchronous online events.

• E-learning with assessment
• Webinars with assessment

• Participant

• 4 points/ reading or online learning

(Capped at 40 points)

AHPs

4
-Presentation of Projects
-Non-accredited local ad-hoc events

- Consists of quality improvement projects, presentations and/or publications; non-accredited ad-hoc courses, seminars and conferences conducted by approved organisers.

• Quality Improvement Projects
• Clinical Innovation Projects
• Non-profession / profession specific conference, seminar or course related to current job scope

• Team leader
• Member
• Speaker
• Presenter
• Participant

• 2 points/ QI presentation

(Capped at 10 points)

• 1 point/hour of educational event

(Capped at 4 points per day and 10 points in total)

AHPs

 

Only CPE activities related to Allied Health, general medical healthcare or current job scopes can be claimed for CPE points. Core points will be awarded for CPE activities with topics related to the respective AHPs’ profession (ie. a Physiotherapist attending a Physiotherapy event), while non-core points will be awarded for topics that are not related to the respective AHPs’ profession, while still being healthcare or job-scope related.