1.75 Units Awarded for Nursing CPD Course

We are very happy to announce that finally after over a year of waiting, one of the 12 approved courses we have submitted to the nursing CPD council was finally awarded 1.75 units. Respiratory Disorders and Appropriate Nursing Interventions will be available for enrollment by the second week of May. Its PRC Accreditation Number is MED-2019-331-204. Above you will find the screenshot from the CPDAS Dashboard for CPD course providers.

We are following up on the other 11 approved courses in Nursing that still have not been awarded CPD units up to now. As explained in a previous post here, the Nursing CPD council was backlogged for a year in awarding CPD units for approved courses. They implemented the CPDAS online system in October 2020 to speed up the process. While there is some improvement, we think it will still take a while before they can process all the backlog. Rest assured we will continue to follow up on our courses until all the backlogs have been processed.

As before, we presume that the nursing CPD council will award one unit per course. Although experience show they usually award more. For example, the course on respiratory disorders was awarded 1.75 units even though it was designed for 1 unit. Optimal Management of Hypertension in the Elderly is the exact same course offered in Medicine. Again. it was designed for 1 unit but was awarded 2 units by the medicine CPD council. If in the end, the nursing CPD council awards more than 1 unit to a course, you keep the extra unit. If less than one unit, we will allow you to cover the deficit by completing more courses for free. What could be fairer than that. Once the credit units are out, price will reflect the PhP 200/unit for each course. Respiratory Disorders is priced at PhP 350 for 1.75 units. Go to course page for details.

Mike

Mike Nicol Uy, MD graduated from UP College of Medicine in 1989. He belongs to the first batch of INTARMED class '89. After graduation he co-founded and ran a chain of clinical laboratories which employed over 100 health care professionals. In 2006 and 2007, he sat for the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) and aced Step 1 with a score of 256 and Step 2 CK with a score of 258. He also passed Step 3 with a score of 219. He then founded an online review center that helped International Medical Graduates pass and even ace the USMLE Steps. At present, he still runs Askdoc-UMLE.com and is founder of Philippine CPD Online.