Self-Directed Educational Projects (SDEPs)

Self-directed educational projects (SDEPs) may be used as an optional means for fulfilling some of the CE credit requirements for medical physicists. Fifteen CE credits will be awarded per project. For SDEPs, the candidate must identify areas in which professional improvement and/or educational augmentation is needed or would be of value. The approach to each project is prospective and must be defined in advance. The components of the SDEP include:

• Significance: a statement of the educational need
• Approach: a list of activities designated to address the need
• Evaluation of achievement, with an initial prospective statement and a final summary statement at the time of completion
• Impact on practice/outcome statement, with an initial prospective statement and a final summary statement at the time of completion

A variety of activities may be accommodated as SDEPs, including (but not limited to):

• Quality improvement
• Research projects
• Publication of original research
• New lecture development
• Regulatory issue review
• Educational topics
• Technology updates
• New protocol implementation

In all cases, the four-component prospective format must be followed. Click on the link below for examples of SDEPs.

• Examples of SDEPs

Click on the link below to download a template to use in recording your SDEP project. Please note that SDEP documentation is submitted only in the event of an MOC audit.

• SDEP Template