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