Yes. You need to reset your password when you access your profile on the updated VDS Healthcare Professional Education Platform.
Your username (email address) will remain unchanged.
You need to reset your password as it is confidential information within your existing VDS profile which we cannot transfer to the new platform.
Please note that you only need to reset your password the first time you access your profile on the new VDS Healthcare Professional Education Platform.
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No. The 'FIND MY CERTIFICATE' functionality has been removed in line with the latest HPCSA Legislation updates (February 2022). Event providers must submit the CPD records directly to the HPCSA.
Event providers utilizing the VDS Event Management Solution to manage the CPD Compliance of their medical events and workshops will benefit from the system's ability of automatically submitting the CPD records to the HPCSA.
Yes. All of your existing CPD certificates have been migrated to your VDS profile and are available for you to access.
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Yes. All of your existing CPD certificates (including archived certificates) have been migrated to your profile and are available for you to access.
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You can access your certificates once logged into your VDS profile. Your certificates will be available on the Dashboard within the CPD Certificates section or accessible via the Certificates tab on the side-menu.
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Yes. Your certificates are still available within the CPD Manager on your VDS profile but the process to access them has changed a bit.
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Yes. You can upload certificates received for external CPD activities completed (outside the VDS Healthcare Professional Education Platform) onto your VDS profile.
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No. The latest HPCSA Legislation update (February 2022) dictates that you as healthcare professional do not have to prepare and submit your IAR Report anymore and states that the responsibility of submitting the CPD points for activities completed to the HPCSA has moved to the service provider.
As a value-add to our service providers, the VDS Healthcare Professional Education Platform automatically submits these CPD records to the HPCSA on a weekly basis to be uploaded onto the HPCSA Portal.
Yes. You can update your professional information linked to a governing body or council when logged into your VDS profile.
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Yes. You can update your VDS profile information once you have logged into your profile on VDS.
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Yes. All the medical journals not restricted to specific association membership are freely available on VDS.
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Yes. Your access to the respective medical courses and journals will remain intact after the VDS Healthcare Professional Education Platform migration.
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