Radon continuing professional development course – Accreditation, Promotion and Hosting Services

The Radiation Protection Bureau at Health Canada (HC) leads an on-going National Radon Program with the goal of reducing the health risks associated with indoor radon exposure in Canada. A key element of the National Radon Program is to provide health care workers with credible and trusted resources, with information and tools for their patients and to help understand the actions they can take to reduce their radon exposure. Health care workers need to be informed about the health risks of radon and what can be done to reduce those risks in order to increase their patients and/or clients awareness, and to support them to undertake protective activities.

Since 2013 a bilingual radon online accredited course for continuing professional development credits for both family physicians and specialist physicians has been availble in Canada. This RFP is for the ongoing need to host the online course, maintain the course accreditation, to promote the course to health professionals across Canada to increase course participation and completion and reporting.

In 2012 Health Canada awarded a multi-year contract, following a request for proposal and competitive bid process, for the development and delivery of a radon continuing professional development course. An online accredited continuing professional development course was created on behalf of Health Canada to educate health care providers with respects to the health risks of radon. The initial contract for course development, accreditation, hosting, promotion and monitoring is completed. The contractor must be able to host the online course, maintain the course accreditation, to promote the course to health professionals across Canada to increase course participation and completion and reporting. The course is composed of 6 modules; disclaimer information; the pre- and post-module quizzes; the pre- and post-module surveys; and the main content module.

The main content module is authored in a third-party e-learning authoring tool, but can be published with an output (SCORM) that is an e-learning standard. The quizzes, surveys and the disclaimer page are currently in a proprietary format and would therefore need to be reproduced on a new platform. The course is offered in both English and French. Health Canada radon materials for the public are also provided online as part of the course offering, so that health care providers can refer their patients to additional resources.