CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND PIPA ACCREDITATION By Anne Turnbull
During 2010, PIPA became a professional accreditation association with an associated Continuing Professional Development (CPD) points system of membership. There are several different types of membership, each with increasing requirements for eligibility and, where appropriate, a post nominal. This enables individuals to move through the levels of membership as they develop their career in Medical Information and/or Pharmacovigilance. access your complete CPD record at any time.
PIPA believes that this champions Medical Information and Pharmacovigilance as professions in the pharmaceutical industry. PIPA wants membership to be seen by employers as a necessity in developing and maintaining standards in the fields of MI and PV.
As well as this, achieving 40 PIPA CPD points over a 2-year period will allow you to qualify for higher PIPA membership – either Full or Fellow – depending on your experience. Higher PIPA membership entitles you to use postnominals of either MPIPA or FPIPA after your name, to demonstrate your industry experience.
In 2021, PIPA launched its CPD portal, which members can access via their ‘My Account’ button when logged in to the PIPA website:
What are the membership levels?
The idea behind the portal is that you can use it as a one-stop-shop to log all of your training and professional development achievements in one place. You can add historical CPD records going back as long as you would like. This means that even if you change companies, you will be able to
We have 5 levels of membership as outlined in the image below (which can also be found on the website: https:// pipaonline.org/professional-development/continuingprofessional-development/). 38
