AIPG’S CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
ethics. While this looks like 50 CPD hours per year including 1 hour of ethics, the requirement is a rolling 3-year aver- age so that a lot of hours can be incurred in one year and fewer in adjacent year. This recognizes that some geoscientists do not have as much access to profes- sional meetings, etc. as those living in major geologic centers like Denver, Houston, New Orleans, Reno, Toronto, or Vancouver, BC. Other, frequently younger, geoscientists do not receive employer support for attending national geoscience organization meetings.
Other AIPG Members are encouraged to get into the habit of recording their CPD activities. You may become subject to mandatory CPD reporting someday and it is much easier if you are already in the habit of logging CPD hours. AIPG’s CPD program is easy to use.
Those AIPG Members who wish to be voluntary participants in the CPD program and who wish to have their CPD Logs reviewed and audited may do so by submitting their AIPG CPD
log.xlsx workbooks to the Chair of the CPD Committee, currently (7/17) David Abbott at
dmageol@msn.com.
CPD Activities
CPD Hours are contact hours recorded in 1 of 7 CPD activities areas. This is consolidation of the 13 CPD activities listed for the old AIPG CPD program on the AIPG website. Other societies have other CPD activity listings, although there is general similarity between pro- grams. AIPG’s CPD activity areas and their 2-letter codes are:
FE: Formal education (tested and untested) attended. Report the hours spent in classes and labs as well as hours spent in study and research.
SC: External and internal short courses and webinars attended. The courses can be technical or courses with a mining or related theme run by com- mercial organizations, and do not have to be taken for credit. Report the hours spent in the short courses and webinars.
CM: Technical conferences and professional society meetings and field trips report the hours spent in conferences, meetings, and field trips.
CK: Contributing to knowledge can include hours spent leading field trips, creating new courses, presen- tations of papers at conferences, and material researched and written for publications.
SE: On-the-job Skill enhancement or Maintenance can include courses to meet or maintain required regu- latory safety, certification, operations, and other programs. For example, the courses could include company, MSHA, or EPA training; first aid courses, com- puter software training, etc.
PR: Private reading of profession- al publications. Report the hours spent reading professional journals, books, and similar publications. You may also report reading to support ancillary pro- fessional skills like computing skills.
IE: Industry engagement can include hours spent on service to indus-
Figure 1 - Taken from GSL’s “Mind Map” of CPD Activities
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