Continuing Professional Development

The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program requires APEGS members to complete ongoing professional development activities to maintain and improve their competence. It encourages members to engage in lifelong learning to protect public health, safety and welfare. The program provides tools for members to assess their current skills, knowledge and abilities, determine activities to maintain or enhance them and report completed activities online to APEGS as professional development credits.

For more information, navigate to the CPD menu on the APEGS website.

To ensure you are working with a member in good standing, please refer to the APEGS public Register of Engineers and Geoscientists.

Featured Professional Development Opportunities

Online Ethics Module #4 Launched in May

APEGS has free one-hour online ethics modules available to assist members in obtaining their ethics credit for the year. The modules are not mandatory and are offered as one option available to members.

Ethics Module #4 is now live!

Our current ethics module topics are:

Module 1 – Professionalism and Ethics
Module 2 – Conflict of Interest
Module 3 – Investigation and Discipline
Module 4 – The Ethics of Continuing Professional Development

For more information and to access the modules, please click here.

4 Seasons of Reconciliation
Indigenous Awareness Training

APEGS is introducing 4 Seasons of Reconciliation in partnership with the First Nations University of Canada. This online course provides an education in line with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action. The intent is to promote a renewed relationship between Indigenous Peoples and Canadian settlers through transformative multi-media learning.

For more information and to access the course, please click here.

Looking for more Professional Development Training?

Do you need help finding available professional development opportunities? The Professional Development Committee continuously sources professional development options which may be of interest to APEGS members.

Links to these courses are organized by industry and are available on the APEGS website. Visit the Professional Development Courses section on the APEGS website for more details.

Does Your Next Meeting Need an Ethics Topic?

Join the APEGS ethics moment email list to receive a new ethics topic and related discussion questions for use at your upcoming meetings. A new ethics moment is emailed once a month.

When an ethics moment is included in the minutes of a meeting, along with the start and end times of the ethics moment discussion, this time can count as part of the member’s annual ethics requirement.

If you would like to be added to this email list, please email cpd@apegs.ca.

Free Course on Practical Geocommunication

Through Geoscientists Canada, APEGS has acquired a professional development opportunity which allows all members free access to Geologize’s critically acclaimed course ‘Practical Geocommunication’ – a $450 US per person value.

This 10-hour course has video lessons, quizzes, brief assignments and the opportunity to interact directly with Dr. Haydon Mort, the course instructor, through forums. Launched Jan. 5, 2022, the course is on-demand and available until Dec. 31, 2023. Members can sign up now and start at any point.

The geocommunications training helps geoscientists become more effective and powerful public ambassadors for geoscience. This skill is more important today than ever as professionals communicate with broad audiences about the effects and mitigation of climate change, impart knowledge concerning critical minerals, communicate with various stakeholder groups, inspire the next generation of geoscientists in the face of declining post-secondary geoscience enrolment and so many other important topics.

How to Enroll

Get APEGS’ unique access code by logging into APEGS Central, the self-serve portal, where you will see the code front and centre on the main screen in the news section.

Go to https://training.geologize.org/courses/gc

1. Click on ‘’Member Access”
2. Register (Important – use an email address you have on record with APEGS)
3. On the payment screen, click the link ‘Have a coupon?’
4. Enter coupon code (available on the APEGS Central newsfeed)
5. Click “Enroll Now”

Use of this code is limited to members of APEGS. Periodic checks will made by the course developer to ensure the code is only being used by members. Those enrolled follow the course at their own pace, with the ability to save and continue at any point. A certificate is provided at the end of the course.