Professional Development Activities and CPD Guidelines
Professional development activities play a crucial role in maintaining competence in your professional role. Learn about CPD guidelines, qualifying learning activities, calculating hours, and what activities do not count towards CPD.
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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) CPD is any learning that develops and maintains professional competence to enable a member to continue to perform their professional role.
What is a learning activity? Must be relevant and appropriate to your professional role and responsibilities; Allows for the development of new or existing competencies.
What qualifies as a learning activity? Did you learn something while doing this activity? Does the learning activity contain significant intellectual or practical content? Is the learning activity directly related to the competencies needed to continue your employment or practice? Is the learning activity relevant to your current professional needs and/or long-term career interests? Is the learning activity quantifiable (expressed in terms of a specific time range)? If the answer is yes to all of the above questions, the activity will likely qualify as a new learning activity.
How do I calculate my hours? How much of the activity was new learning? What parts of the activity were relevant to your professional roles and responsibilities? Previous learning is not eligible as new learning. Your new leaning may be different from a colleague in attendance at the same course.
I am instructing a course, can I claim this as CPD and if so, how many hours can I claim? Does it meet the requirement of being a learning activity? Did you learn? Does it contain significant intellectual content? Reading and research time for the instruction may be used for verifiable hours; Reading and research time can only be used once, unless there is new material when there has been a significant change to the curriculum; General instruction hours is not considered to be a learning activity.
What would not be considered a learning activity? Examples of activities not considered a learning activity in most cases (this is not a complete list): Yoga or fitness programs to deal with stress; Art, painting, pottery classes. These activities do not contain significant intellectual content and are not relevant to a CPA s professional role or responsibilities.
In review: A learning activity is any activity that: is new learning; contains significant intellectual or practical content; is directly related to the competencies needed to continue your employment; is relevant to your current professional needs and/or long-term career interests; and is quantifiable. Member registrations can be reached at cpdreporting@cpaalberta.ca or toll free at 1-800-232-9406.
