Accreditation of Rounds, Journal Clubs, or Small Group Activities
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) have different approaches for the accreditation of Rounds, Journal Clubs and Small Group activities. The processes below have been streamlined to make the process of accreditation less complicated, and less expensive!
- Hospital or clinical rounds: These scheduled education sessions are developed by hospital, health system, or academic departments and delivered from or within a hospital, clinical, or academic setting. The SPC must be accountable to a clinical or academic department head.
- Journal clubs: These involve groups of physicians and other health professionals who meet on a regular schedule to review and critically evaluate recent articles in scientific and medical literature. Members of a journal club are also the SPC for the club.
- Small-group learning activities: These activities are planned by an organized group of physicians and other health care professionals, for approximately 12 participants or fewer, to review and discuss practice related issues. Members of the small group act as the SPC for the group.
If you are accrediting rounds, journal clubs, or small group activities for CFPC Members, please click CFPC below for the process and associated documents.
If you are accrediting rounds, journal clubs, or small group activities for RCPSC members, please click RCPSC below and follow the self-approval process.
If you are accrediting rounds, journal clubs, or small group activities for both CFPC and RCPSC members, we recommend that you follow the processes outlined for the respective Colleges.
CFPC Certification of Rounds, Journal Clubs and Small Group Activities
To certify your Rounds or Journal Club for Mainpro+ group learning credits, please complete the application below and use the templates provided to guide the completion of the necessary support documents.
Please note that you CAN complete this application in stages, going in and out with your data saved each time, provided that you are using the same device and the same browser.
**CFPC Rounds, Journal Club and Small Group Activity Application**
| TEMPLATES (COMPLETE OR MODIFY THESE AND SUBMIT WITH YOUR APPLICATION) | RESOURCE DOCUMENTS |
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Hospital or clinical rounds must adhere to the Mainpro+ certification standards in their development and delivery; however, these activities have a simplified application and review process.
The SPC for hospital/clinical rounds must be accountable to the department head, chief of staff, or equivalent. Both hospital/clinical rounds and journal clubs will undergo an administrative review and will not be subject to a peer review.
RCPSC Self-Approval Process for the Accreditation of Rounds, Journal Clubs and Small Group Activities
| SELF-APPROVAL PROCESS FOR ROUNDS | SELF-APPROVAL PROCESS FOR JOURNAL CLUBS | SELF-APPROVAL PROCESS FOR SMALL GROUP ACTIVITIES |
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3. Await Confirmation of accreditation from the Royal College (Accreditation term will be 4 years)
4. Retain a copy of the confirmation email for your records.
If you are also accrediting the activity for CFPC Mainpro+ credit, it is recommended that you provide the self-approval confirmation as a supplementary document with those CFPC
application documents.
Credit Statement for RCPSC self-approved activities:
The [insert exact title of rounds, journal club or small group as indicated on self-approval form] is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
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