British Columbia Naturopathic Physician Continuing Education

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The College requires its registrants to complete a minimum of 40 hours of continuing education over each 2-year CE period, plus an additional 2 hours for each certification area. This requirement can be fulfilled by having all the 40 hours drawn from a combination of categories A, B, C, D and the additional 2 certification hours from Category E.

The vast majority of our courses are automatically accepted as they are facilitated by the University of Bridgeport, Health Sciences Postgraduate Education Department.  Scroll down to view courses.

When logged in, as long as your licenses are entered on your account, each course is clearly identified as being approved or not approved.

Categories of CE

• CATEGORY "A": Meetings/Activities of Major Associations/Regulatory Bodies. A required minimum of 5 hours


• CATEGORY "B": A required minimum of 12 hours from any educational seminar offered by any recognized Naturopathic Physician organization such as the BCNA, CAND, NWA, ONA, AANP, and other official provincial or state associations

Balance of required hours: After meeting the minimum hour requirements in the Categories A and B above, registrants may receive CE credits for the remaining 23 required CE hours from any of the three categories (B, C, OR D) that they choose as appropriate for their personal professional development needs.


• CATEGORY "C": Seminars sponsored by any other medical and professional organizations such as chiropractic, medical, nursing, psychology, acupuncture, etc., nutriceutical and pharmaceutical company sponsored educational seminars, teleconference, web-conference, video and audio recordings of seminars, computer-based learning programs and all other distant-learning programs. ChiroCredit.com courses apply to this Category


• CATEGORY "D": " CNPBC or BCNA Committee or Board service; Teaching: Naturopathic Physician offering courses or workshops to either the public or professionals; Preceptors or Preceptorships: This represents taking on a preceptor student or preceptoring with another health professional; Personal and Business Development courses related to business, office management, accounting, financial management, communication skills, leadership development, public speaking and related topics


• CATEGORY "E": For those registrants with certification designations, an additional 2 hours of CE is required for each certification area every 2 years These can be counted towards the 40 total hours needed. These certification designations currently include: acupuncture, ozone, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, chelation, prolotherapy, prescriptive authority. Learning methods include courses, seminars, workshops, any distance learning methodology and self-study provided appropriate documentation is provided for all hours. ChiroCredit.com courses apply to this Category


• CATEGORY "F": Pharmacy CE.
  Registrants who are certified in prescribing authority are required to obtain 10 additional hours per 2 year CE period over and above the 40 hours required by all registrants. Registrants who take the pharmacy training and obtain certification are not required these 10 hours until the next 2 year CE period. These pharmacy training hours may not be used towards the 40 hours needed by all registrants. Registrants taking the 10 hours in a single pharmacy topic ( eg. Bio-identical Hormones) may only use that category once and need to take other topics in the future. It is permissible to take the same topic again if it is part of a multi-topic pharmacy review.

State of British Columbia Naturopathic Physician Continuing Education Requirements

British Columbia Naturopathic Physician Continuing Education requirements posted on this page are based upon the most up to date information available. British Columbia Naturopathic Physician continuing education requirements are subject to change and therefore, British Columbia Naturopathic Physician licensee's are ultimately responsible for being up to date with the British Columbia Naturopathic Physician continuing education requirements.

Continuing education courses offered on ChiroCredit.com provide Online CEU for British Columbia Naturopathic Physicians. The online courses increase the knowledge bases of the Naturopathic Physician to enhance their clinical therapy practice. Free 1 hour approved online continuing education course for new British Columbia Naturopathic Physicians who register with www.ChiroCredit.com