Continuing Education Credits

***Please note that continuing education accreditation information is being updated regularly as changes and additional approvals occur. If your required credits are not listed please contact our office by telephone: (604) 822-7524 or via e-mail: ipad@interchange.ubc.ca.

 

Counselors

Canada

• New ! Canadian Counselling Association (CCA) - This program has been approved for 24 CEU Hours by the Canadian Counselling Association. Please contact ipad@interchange.ubc.ca for the CCA individual credit application form.

USA

• New ! National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) – UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education has been approved by the National Board of Certified Counselors as a continuing education provider (#6252).

 

Family Physicians

• New ! Specialties for whom up to 25.5 hours of CME credits have been approved by the Royal College include:

  • Neurology
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Community Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Genetics

  For the specialties listed above, see Physicians and Surgeons 

 

Legal Associates

• BC Law Society – The Brain Development & Learning Conference 2006 was approved to be listed as 22 continuing education hours in completing your Annual Report to the Law Society of BC. The Law Society is now requiring lawyers to report their continuing education annually, although there is no rule that lawyers must actually engage in continuing professional development. Please check back for 2008 updates. * Click here for further information

 

Music Therapists

USA

• New ! Certified Board of Music Therapists (CBMT) – CBMT also recognizes activities provided by organizations approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors. UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education is an approved provider of NBCC (#6252).

 

Nurses

Canada

• Although the Brain Development & Learning conference will be awarding general certificates noting hours of educational instruction, currently, none of the regulatory bodies in Canada have specific continuing education requirements for practicing registered nurses. The regulatory bodies do not assess continuing education programs to assign C.E.U.s (continuing education units). Nurses in Canada do keep records of participation in continuing education for purposes of maintaining specialty certification and in British Columbia and Ontario for continuing competence programs. In most provinces and territories, nurses who have not practiced for a specified number of hours within a specified time limit must take a refresher course before being given permission to return to work in nursing.
  
  Canadian nurses are accountable for providing competent nursing care to their clients. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) believes that to provide competent nursing care, a registered nurse must maintain and continuously enhance the knowledge, skills, attitude and judgment required to meet client needs in an evolving health care system.

 

Occupational Therapists

Physicians and Surgeons

• New! Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons – This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by the Canadian Paediatric Society. This event is approved for a maximum of 25.5 credit hours.

  
  Specialties represented include:

  • Neurology
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Community Medicine
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Genetics
  • and more...

  For a complete list of the specialties represented by The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, please click here http://rcpsc.medical.org/information/index.php.

 

Psychologists

Canada

• New! Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) - UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. UBC Interprofessional Continuing Education maintains responsibility for the program.

USA

• New! American Psychological Association (APA) – This program has been reviewed and approved for CE credit for psychologists by the American Psychological Association's Continuing Education Committee. This program offers up to 25 CE credits for psychologists. The provider maintains responsibility for the delivery of the program. Approval #08-187.

 

Social Workers

• BC Association of Social Workers (BCASW) – Although the Brain Development & Learning conference will be awarding general certificates noting hours of educational instruction, BCASW does not award continuing education credits as continuing education units are not mandatory for social workers in BC.
  
• New! National Association of Social Workers (NASW) – The Brain Development & Learning conference 2008 is approved by the National Association of Social Workers (#886463608) for 29.5 continuing education contact hours. **** Click here for further information

 

Teachers

Canada

• Alberta – Although the Brain Development & Learning conference will be awarding general certificates noting hours of educational instruction, Alberta Teachers’ Federation does not award continuing education credits as continuing education units are not mandatory for teachers in Alberta. However, all teachers are required to develop and carry out individual professional growth plans. Participating in this conference may be part of the individual’s growth plan; as a result,an individual may want to keep the certificate of attendance for this purpose.
  
• BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) – Although the Brain Development & Learning conference will be awarding general certificates noting hours of educational instruction, BCTF does not award continuing education credits as continuing education units are not mandatory for teachers in BC.
  
• Manitoba – In order to enquire information regarding the compatibility between the Brain Development & Learning conference and the professional development credits, please contact Donna Evanchuk at devanchuk@gov.mb.ca. Please note that we will be issuing a general certificate noting hours of educational instruction.
  
• Saskatchewan – Although the Brain Development & Learning conference will be awarding general certificates noting hours of educational Instruction, Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation does not award continuing education credits as continuing education units are not mandatory for teachers in Saskatchewan.

USA

• California – The Brain Development & Learning conference may be eligible for the professional growth requirement. We will be providing a certificate of attendance noting hours of educational instruction. However, to earn professional growth hours, an individual and their personal advisor must determine if a course is appropriate. An advisor may request a conference brochure, which is available online (http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/BDL_subpages/brochure.html). The CA Commission does not sponsor any programs. *** Click here for further information
  
• Michigan – The Brain Development & Learning conference may be eligible for the State Board Continuing Education Units (SB-CEUs). We will be providing a certificate of attendance noting hours of educational instruction. However, Michigan teachers must contact their SB-CEU coordinator in which the school district resides at least 45 days prior to the date of the offering. Please note that an individual SB-CEU coordinator might request for the conference brochure (available online: http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/BDL_subpages/brochure.html) to calculate contact hours and CEUs, and might also even request for you to bring a sign-in sheet to the conference.
  

 

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* BC Law Society

The Law Society’s minimum expectation for continuing professional education is 12 hours in the annual reporting period or roughly two full-day continuing education courses. Although there is no rule that members engage in continuing professional development, the Law Society views professional development as a responsibility of all members. By requiring members to report continuing professional education and self-study activity, the Law Society is encouraging a commitment to career-long learning. You may provide any comments about the number of hours you have spent during the reporting period.

Typical continuing professional education activities include the following:

• Live programs, workshops, and conferences, such as those offered by the CLE Society of BC, Trial Lawyers Association, CBA (including section meetings), Federation of Law Societies and other continuing education providers
• In-house legal education programs offered to employees by law firms and in-house legal departments
• Interactive on-line programs, such as CLE Society of BC programs
  Video and DVD replay programs in an organized group setting
• Organized education discussion groups, such as CBA subsection meetings
• Participating in post-LLB degree programs
• Teaching in PLTC, continuing professional education programs, and law school programs
• Preparation time for teaching (estimated total hours).
  

Ongoing learning and enhancement of competence related to professional ethics are of considerable importance. Please estimate your total annual hours of practice ethics education, if any.

Ongoing learning and enhancement of competence related to practice management are of considerable importance. Please estimate your total annual hours of practice management education, if any.

The Law Society’s minimum expectation for self-study activity is 50 hours in the annual reporting period. This equates to approximately one hour per week. The self-study report should not include time spent on file-specific reading, study or research. Examples of self-study activity that would be accounted for include the following:

• Reading and writing printed material (including electronic printed material), such as publications of continuing professional education providers, legal texts, case law, and articles in the Advocate, Law Society publications, Canadian Bar Review, Bar Talk and other legal journals
  
• Internet refers to information obtained on-line, such as through on-line learning, listservs and chat rooms. If, however, you participated in an on-line program, other than in a chat room, at the same time as other members of the on-line program audience, please record that time as continuing professional education, not self-study.
  
• CD-ROM
  
• Videotape / DVD (other than in an organized group setting
  
• Audiotape

If these education tools, such as CD-ROM, videotape and DVD are used in a structured group setting or course, please record your time as continuing professional education, not as self-study.

** WAC 246-809-610
What Courses Are Acceptable?

The continuing education (CE) program or course must be relevant to licensed marriage and family therapists, licensed mental health counselors and licensed social workers and must contribute to the advancement, extension and enhancement of the professional competence of the licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental health counselor and/or licensed social worker. Courses or workshops primarily designed to increase practice income or office efficiency are not eligible for CE credit.

(1) Acceptable CE courses (including distance learning), seminars, workshops and postgraduate institutes are those which are:

(a) Programs having a featured instructor, speaker(s) or panel approved by an industry-recognized local, state, national, international organization or institution of higher learning; or

(b) Distance learning programs, approved by an industry-recognized local, state, national or international organization or institution of higher learning. These programs must require tests of comprehension upon completion. Distance learning programs are limited to twenty-six hours per reporting period.

(2) Training programs sponsored by the agency where a counselor is employed are acceptable if:

(a) The experience can be shown to contribute to the advancement, extension and enhancement of the professional competence of the licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental health counselor and/or the licensed social worker; and

(b) The training programs are limited to twenty-six hours per reporting period.

(3) Other learning experience, such as serving on a panel, board or council, community service, research, peer consultation, or publishing articles for professional publications are acceptable if:

(a) The experience can be shown to contribute to the advancement, extension and enhancement of the professional competence of the licensed marriage and family therapist, licensed mental health counselor and/or the licensed social worker; and

(b) The experience is limited to six hours per reporting period.

 

*** PROFESSIONAL GROWTH REQUIREMENT:

2. Attend conferences, workshops, institutes, academies, symposia, teacher center programs, or staff development programs.

Acceptable workshops and programs include those whose purpose is to increase the professional knowledge, competence, performance or effectiveness in education of the participants, regardless of the source of sponsorship or funding for the activity.

Recorded clock-hours must be restricted to time spent in those portions of the conferences, workshops, or programs that contribute to participants’ professional knowledge, competence, performance, or effectiveness in education, and time spent completing outside assignments that would qualify in categories 3 through 7. 
http://www.ctc.ca.gov/credentials/manuals-handbooks/PG_Manual_MultSingSubj.pdf

 

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