Department of Healthcare Professions

Committed to Patient Safety

Workshop for Accreditation of CPD Activities Held

Date: March/20/2016

The Accreditation Department of the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners organized a workshop for CPD Providers on 24 February, 2016. 

Workshop aimed to ensure the smooth functionality of the National CME/CPD Accreditation Systems. The workshop included two sessions. The first session was intended to target CPD Providers accredited under the New QCHP-AD CME/CPD Accreditation Standards. Attendees from HMC, Sidra, College of Pharmacy-QU, CNA-Q participated in this session process to reinforce their knowledge about CPD Activities, Application Form, and Attachments Required under the new QCHP-AD Standards. The second session targeted those providers who were accredited under the Provisional QCHP-AD Standards. The representatives from the University of Calgary in Qatar, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, PHCC, and School of Health Sciences-QU attended this session. The session explained the New QCHP-AD Accreditation Standards and application process for accreditation of CME/CPD Activities in addition to the application process for accreditation as CPD Provider.

The workshop was successful, highly interactive and included presentations, group discussions question-and-answer session.

It is to be noted that QCHP-AD has dedicated a special time, every Monday from 11.30 AM – 1.00 PM, to be an open day for hosting healthcare practitioners and CPD providers at the MoPH premises to answer their questions related to the National CME/CPD Program and Accreditation Syste
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