Attendance at Accredited CPD Courses

Attendance at Accredited CPD Courses

 
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Attendance policy

With effect from 1 November 2008, a practitioner should not claim any CPD points if he is absent from the course (excluding scheduled breaks) for more than 10 minutes for a course of less than 3 hours or for more than 30 minutes for a course of 3 hours or more in duration.

The following attendance policy applied until 31 October 2008:

(a) For a course of less than 60 minutes in duration, any course participants who is absent for any period during the course, including late arrivals or early departures, will not receive any CPD points for that course.

(b) For a course of 60 minutes or more in duration, a grace period of 10 minutes for either late arrival or early departure (but not both in the same course) will be permitted without deduction of any CPD points. Any course participant who is otherwise absent during the course apart from scheduled breaks will not receive any CPD points for that course.

(c) For a course of 3 hours or more but less than 6 hours in duration,
  i. 1 CPD point will be deducted for any late arrival or early departure beyond the 10 minutes' grace period of up to 30 minutes from the commencement of the course;
  ii. any course participant who arrives late or leaves early for more than 30 minutes or who is otherwise absent during the course apart from scheduled breaks will not receive any CPD points for that course.

(d) For a course of 6 hours or more in duration,
  i. 1 CPD point will be deducted for any late arrival or early departure beyond the 10 minutes' grace period of up to 30 minutes from the commencement or before the end of the course;
  ii. 2 CPD points will be deducted for any late arrival or early departure beyond the 10 minutes' grace period of more than 30 minutes and up to 60 minutes from the commencement or before the end of the course;
  iii. any course participant who arrives late or leaves early for more than 60 minutes or who is otherwise absent during the course apart from scheduled breaks will not receive any CPD points for that course.

Where a course participant both arrives late and leaves early in the same course, the grace period or partial award of CPD points will not apply. In such cases, no CPD points will be awarded for attendance at that course.

Where courses last for more than one day and have been accredited as a whole (i.e. not on a segmented basis), the attendance policy will apply on a day-to-day basis.

When attending courses, practitioners should notify the provider that they will claim CPD points and should make sure that their attendance at the entire course is noted (e.g. by scanning membership cards where there is a computerised scanning system, or by signing in and signing out of the course where such a system is not implemented.)

 

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