Portal Guidelines and Resources

How to pay your fees

  • RCSI Fellows and Members (working in Ireland) who wish to pay their Fellowship/Membership fee and their PCS fee at the same time are entitled to a discount should they pay before June 30th. The fee before June 30th is €700 and after June 30th is €950.
  • When you sign in to the portal, you will be advised that your PCS fee is due. Click on the ‘pay now’ button at the top of the screen.
  • You will be required to confirm your details, e.g. registration details. Click ‘save’ and ‘continue’.
  • You will also be required to confirm your personal details, educational details, work details; click ‘next’.
  • Your payment summary will open. You can choose to ‘Fellows/Members and PCS Subscription Fee’ together or ‘Non Fellow/Member PCS Subscription’, which will enrol you for the term of PCS.

Your Professional Development Plan 

Creating a professional development plan (PDP) is a mandatory requirement. It allows you to plan your activities during the year and set out goals for your personal development. By creating a PDP at the beginning of the year, it can be used to reflect on and monitor your progress throughout the year, including planning how your activities will match your annual PCS requirements and review how many credits you think you will be able to accumulate during the year.

To achieve the best results in professional performance, PDPs need to be prospective rather than retrospective.

PDPs should consider all the various roles that you fulfil in your job and the steps you need to take to update your knowledge, maintain your experience and improve your skills if necessary.

How to create your plan

  • Sign in to the PCS Portal PCS Portal to begin your plan.
  • Click on the 'PCS plan' tile and complete your plan by identifying events, meetings, learning materials or discussion topics that will assist you in meeting your requirements. Your CPD activities must cover each of the eight domains of good professional practice at least once in a three-year period.
  • Once you have your plan created and submitted, you will receive 5 CPD credits.
  • If you send your plan to be reviewed by a colleague, both you and the reviewer will receive an additional CPD credit in the work-based learning category.
  • If you reflect on your plan at the end of the year, you will receive an additional CPD credit in the work-based learning category. 

Adding CPD Records 

To add a new record to your profile:

  • Sign into the PCS Portal
  • Click on the ‘add records’ tile
  • Enter the date of the activity
  • Choose the category from the dropdown list
  • Choose the activity type
  • Select the relevant domain of good professional practice reflected in the activity where possible – you can select one or many domains
  • Select the number of credits allocated to this activity (slide the button to select the correct credits)
  • Enter the activity description – this can be the name of the activity
  • Enter the development purpose
  • Press ‘submit’
  • You can now view your new uploaded CPD record – edit, clone and delete the record functionality is available
  • You can also add your supporting documentation (certificate of attendance etc.)
  • Select the ‘search CPD records’ to search for uploaded CPD activity
  • You can return to the records page by clicking on ‘<Back to RCSI‘ at the top of the page

Board Elections 2025

Notice is hereby given that an election to fill 3 vacancies on the Board of the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologists of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland will take place on Friday 26th September 2025.  There are three positions available in Diagnostic Radiology due to one being unfilled in the 2024 election. Following their election, the standard term of office is 5 years.

Fellows of two year’s standing at the date fixed for the election, practising as Consultant Radiologists in Ireland, are eligible for election to the Board.  (Fellows who have not paid their annual Faculty subscription shall not be entitled to receive voting access).

Nomination Form

Nominee Form

 

The Board of the Faculty is at present constituted as follows:

BOARD OF THE FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS & RADIATION ONCOLOGISTS

DEAN
JEROME COFFEY
(Elected Dean 2024-2026)
TERM OF OFFICE
2020 – 2026
VICE-DEAN MARK KNOX 2020 – 2025 **
HONORARY SECRETARY  DARRAGH HALPENNY 2020 – 2025 **
HONORARY TREASURER  MARTIN SHELLY 2022 – 2027

BOARD MEMBERS
CATHERINE GLYNN
DEBARATA BHATTACHARYA
BARRY HUTCHINSON
COLIN CANTWELL 2023 - 2028
ELAINE DAVIS 2024 – 2029
PIERRE THIRION 2024 – 2029


2021 – 2026
2022 – 2027
2023 – 2028
2023 – 2028
2024 – 2029
2024 – 2029

  ** Retiring  

Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland  
123 St. Stephen's Green
Dublin 2                                                                               

Dr. Darragh Halpenny
Honorary Secretary, Honorary Secretary
21st May 2025                                                              

 

PCS requirements under the Maintenance of Professional Competence Framework

The MPC Framework is being updated for the coming Professional Competence Scheme year (2025/2026), with the introduction of revised MPC Rules on 1 May 2025. The MPC Framework is being updated for the coming Professional Competence Scheme year (2025/2026), with the introduction of revised MPC Rules on 1 May 2025. The MPC Framework outlines the requirementsby which doctors registered in Ireland mustcomply with.

This document available below, provides information as to the key differences between the current and forthcoming requirements of Continuing Professional Development activity that doctors will be required to complete.

 

Click here to view the new PCS requirements under the Maintenance of Professional Competence Framework Booklet

 

What you need to know about the updated MPC Framework

  • As under the current MPC Framework, all doctors registered in Ireland, except for those on the Trainee Specialist Division and those on the register of visiting EEA practitioners, must enrol on a Professional Competence Scheme (PCS) relevant to their speciality or scope of practice which begins on 1 May and ends on 30 April each    year. Though the requirement to enrol in a scheme remains the same, the new MPC Framework revises the number of hours of CPD activity which doctors must record each year, as well as the categories that constitute the hours of required CPD activity.
  • Under the new MPC Framework, doctors will be required to record a minimum of 50 hours of CPD activity each year. Doctors are still required to complete a practice review activity each year, though this is included within the total figure of 50 hours of CPD activity.                               
  • Doctors must record a minimum of 50 hours of CPD activity across several categories, alongside an audit which should typically require 10-12 hours for completion. This results in an annual requirement of approximately 60 hours of CPD and audit activity for doctors to complete each scheme year. It is not possible to accrue a surplus of hours for use during the following scheme year.
  • There have been revisions to the categories of CPD activity, while pro-rata provisions for doctors who enrol midway during a scheme year are also included.

  • It is important to note that over the past five scheme years, these annual requirements were temporarily revised due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
  • Doctors must retain this evidence for a period of six years.

 

 

Your CPD/CME requirements under new MPC Framework from May 1st 2025

Doctors engaged in the practice of medicine                                

Doctors not engaged in the practice of medicine

  • If a doctor has declared during the annual retention process that they will be engaged in the practise of medicine in the Republic of Ireland during their period of registration, then they must complete the following annually:
  • If a doctor is based in the Republic of Ireland and has declared    during the annual retention process that they will not be engaged in the practise of medicine in Ireland during their period of registrationthen they must complete the following annually:
    

 A professional development plan: 

Up to 5 hours                 A professional development plan:  Up to 5 hours
 

One practice review activity - audit, quality improvement and/or practice evaluation:

 

Minimum of 10 hours

 

A mix of practice review activity (audit, quality improvement and/or practice evaluation) or work-based learning activity:

 

Minimum of 25 hours 

A mix of work-based learning activity  Minimum of 15 hours Accredited CPD activity  Minimum of 20 hours 
Accredited CPD activity  Minimum of 20 hours   

 

Access PCS Portal

Introduction:

From May 2025, the Medical Council will introduce a new Maintenance of Professional Competence Framework with new criteria for every doctor to comply with. In anticipation of the introduction of the new PCS framework, the Faculty of Radiologists and Radiation Oncologist’s have partnered with RCSI to develop and use a new Faculty/RCSI PCS portal. The current medhub PCS portal does not have the required functionality for the new competence framework. 

The new portal has been developed with RCSI’s IT Department and has been tested extensively from May 2022 to ensure a user friendly, positive experience for the Faculty’s PCS users. The Faculty/RCSI PCS portal offer’s an effortless upload CPD Records, submission of your annual Professional Development Plan, downloadable 6 Year Summary, and capactity to renew your Fellows/Members and PCS subscription with a repository for all receipts, which are downloadable for the user. 

Payment via the RCSI Portal  

Once logged in, the portal will notify you of your outstanding subscriptions. Fellow/Member and PCS payments will now be processed via the RCSI portal. This will allow you to process your Fellow/Member and PCS subscription fee at the beginning of May every year. 

       Access Links: PCS Portal

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