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The future of accreditation of continuing medical education (CME)-continuing professional development (CPD) in Europe: harmonisation through dialogue and consensus

In Europe, there are currently some 30 different jurisdictions and no overarching legislation regarding CME-CPD accreditation, since legislative competency related to national health-care systems lies with national authorities. Thus, public demonstration of professional agreement regarding the princ...

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Autores principales: de Andrade, Fabiola, Griebenow, Reinhard, Costello, Richard W., Guenova, Margarita, Schaefer, Robert, Chalmers, James D., Tichelli, Andre, Raguz, Drazen, Stein, Joerg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6129779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30206501
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21614083.2018.1506202
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Sumario:In Europe, there are currently some 30 different jurisdictions and no overarching legislation regarding CME-CPD accreditation, since legislative competency related to national health-care systems lies with national authorities. Thus, public demonstration of professional agreement regarding the principles, rules and practice of CME-CPD as well as its accreditation is a highly desirable professional and political objective in Europe, where free movement and freedom to offer professional (medical) services is a key feature of the EU vision of the single market. The newly formed association of independent European accreditors, Continuing Medical Education - European Accreditors (CME-EA) is committed to offering a platform for dialogue between individuals and organisations involved in definition of professional codes in general, and accreditation of CME-CPD in particular on the national level. The aim is to reach a European consensus on principles and rules applied in planning and delivery of CME-CPD. This includes consensus on constituent characteristics of accreditors as well as principles and practice of accreditation.