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Professionals need not spend to comply with CPD — PRC

Published August 1, 2017, 4:51 PM

By Samuel Medenilla

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) said professionals could comply with the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) requirement without spending a single peso through their employers.

RC officer-in-charge (OIC) Standards and Inspection Division Maria Liza Hernandez said company seminars could provide CPD units to professionals if their employers get the necessary accreditation from PRC.

“The company will only have to pay P5,000 for the accreditation which is good for three years. Then their human resources could apply each of their (seminar) programs for P1,000,” Hernandez explained.

“Once the companies becomes accredited, all of their professionals could get the CPD units at no cost by attending company seminars,” she added.

On Monday, PRC also released a circular allowing government agencies to register as CPD providers for free.

Hernandez said the aforementioned measures are pursuant to the provisions of  Republic Act No. 10912 of the CPD Law, which states that all private and government, are required to include CPD as part of their human resource development program.

Aside from attending seminars, she also explained professionals could get the CPD units through academic means like getting a postgraduate degrees or through other activities related to their professions like becoming a source person or doing socio-civic activities.

For such activities, she said professionals would only have to shell out P1,000 to convert the said activities to CPD units.

“If they will go through this track, then they don’t have to attend seminars anymore,” Hernandez said.

PRC issued the statement after a group professional started an online signature petition at Change.org to call on PRC to review the implementation of the CPD program.

As of yesterday, around 49,000 professional have signed the petition to change the guidelines of the CPD program since they claim it forces them to attend costly seminars from accredited CPD providers in exchange for CPD units.

Under the CPD Law, all professionals are required to obtain the necessary CPD units as prescribed by their respective professional regulatory boards (PRB) to renew their professional Identification Cards.

PRC Memorandum Circular no. 7 s.2017

Manila, July 31, 2017 – Pursuant to Memorandum Circular No. 07, Series of 2017 and Section 13, Article II of Republic Act No. 10912, otherwise known as the “Continuing Professional Development Act of 2016”, the Professional Regulation Commission calls all government agencies including state universities and colleges and government owned and controlled corporations to apply for accreditation as CPD provider and have their programs accredited by the CPD Councils concerned in order to assure that all professionals employed therein can earn CPD credit units without cost to the CPD Provider and the professionals. No accreditation fee shall be paid by the provider applicants.

The following shall be the governing procedures for accreditation:

1. The applicant shall submit all the documentary requirements for accreditation as CPD provider provided in the Resolution No. 1032, S. 2017 or the Implementing Rules and Regulation of R.A. No. 10912 and the Operation Guidelines in the implementation of R.A. 10912 of the concerned profession.

2. Upon the approval of the application for accreditation as a CPD Provider, a Certificate of Accreditation shall be given to the applicant.

3. The Accredited CPD Provider shall apply for the accreditation of its program/s to the CPD Council at least forty five (45) days prior to its offering.

4. If a program shall be offered to multiple professions, the program shall be applied to all concerned CPD Councils.

5. After the approval of the program by the CPD Council, provisional credit units will be assigned to the program.

6. The CPD Council shall monitor and evaluate the implementation of the CPD Programs.

7. After the submission of the Monitor’s Report and the CPD Provider’s Completion Report, the CPD Council shall conduct a post evaluation of the program and shall grant appropriate CPD Credit Units.

8. A Certificate of Accreditation of Program shall be given to the CPD Provider.

In the event that the program will be offered for a fee to professionals not employed by the said agency, SUC or GOCC, PRC will require the said applicant to pay the prescribed fee of P1,000.00 for the accreditation of the program.

However, the Commission gives some special consideration to defer the application for CPD units for justifiable reasons such as: medical reason, unforeseen or uncontrolled events (e.g. Martial Law declaration, recent typhoon, fire, et. al.), professionals working overseas, for employment purposes, unemployed or financially handicapped and other analogous circumstances as may be determined to be justifiable by the Regional Director concerned.

With the passage of R.A. No. 10912, PRC enjoins all government agencies to work together in order to attain its primary objective to enhance the professional knowledge and technical skills of the professionals to be globally competitive.

For further inquiries regarding this matter, please contact the CPD Secretariat, through Dr. Maria Ellen Ruditha A. Quinicio, DPA at 310 – 1048 or prc.standards@gmail.com

Click HERE to read/download a pdf copy of the memo circular

PR-BFL Advisory on CPD Providers

BFL-CPD Council Advisory

March 28 at 10:51pm 

Dear librarians,

I would like to inform you that there are programs conducted by CPD providers that are not accredited due to 1) lack of time between submission of the program for accreditation and implementation. The PRC requires 45 days lead time in approving CPD programs; and 2) Programs submitted for approval are not advanced (They are already covered in library school). In such cases, the program becomes a self-directed program which could be given points by the CPD Council upon evaluation.

May I also remind you to attend programs where you will acquire new information that will enable you to advance in your career and not just to gain CPD points. Attendees are now required to pass tests before they are given the certificate of attendance or completion. They are also monitored regarding the sessions they attended. The CPD points vary from person to person depending on their performance and attitude.

Thank you.

Lourdes T. David

Accredited CPD Providers

From Mam Lourdes T. David fb post (Chair of the PRBFL CPD Council)

The following librarian associations are now accredited CPD providers: 

PLAI

PAARL

ASLP

PASLI

MAHLAP

MUNPARLAS

Note: As per earlier agreement with the CPD Council, all Regional Councils (RC's) of PLAI need not apply as a separate CPD providers for they are deemed part of PLAI approved application.


UPDATES as of 18 March 2017

AS of our March 15 meeting, the following were approved as CPD providers: [from Ma'am Lourdes T. David]

UST Miguel De Benavides Library

National Library of the Philippines

Society of Filipino Archivists

Assosasyon ng Aklatan at Sinupan ng Diliman, Inc.

UPDATES as of 24 April 2017

Here is a list of newly approved CPD providers:

PGLL

UPLSAA

CHRDF

San Pedro College

PNULISSA

Those whose applications were disapproved may resubmit their applications as soon as they complete the requirements for CPD provider. Our next meeting is on May 18. Thank you.