If you meet the entry requirements, the Faculty of Public Health Medicine General Division Professional Competence Scheme allows you to maintain your professional competence.
Once your enrolment is complete, we will give you access to exclusive resources and advice tailored for doctors in Public Health Medicine.
You can also browse our wide range of CPD-approved courses and educational programmes suitable for doctors in your specialty.
If you are on the General or Supervised Division and do not meet the entry requirements for this Scheme, you can enrol on the Irish Committee on Higher Medical Training General Division Scheme.
If you are on the Specialist Division, you should enrol on a Specialist Division Professional Competence Scheme.
If you’re not sure which Scheme you should enrol on, contact us and we will be glad to help.
If you were enrolled on a Professional Competence Scheme during 2019-2020, you don’t need to complete another application. You are however required to renew your enrolment each year - contact us if you need help with this.
The method of payment is credit or debit card, taken at the end of the online application process. You may also pay by direct debit.
If you pay an annual subscription fee for membership of RCPI or one of our faculties, you will be entitled to a discount.
You will be asked to login to our website. If you already have login details for our website, you should log in using that username and password.
Please do not create a new account for our website if you already have existing login details.
If you were enrolled in 2019-2020, you do not need to complete a new application form, simply log in to your Digital Hub and follow the link to renew your enrolment.
Faculty of Public Health Medicine General Division Professional Competence Scheme
Once your enrolment is complete, we will set up your ePortfolio for Professional Competence and send you instructions on how to use it to record and monitor your progress throughout the year.
If you have any questions about your Professional Competence Scheme please contact our Professional Competence support team:
We have a highly experienced Professional Competence support team in our Dublin headquarters. They are always happy to answer your questions and advise you on how to maintain Professional Competence. Please note, at present the fastest way to contact this department is by logging in to our support desk here
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