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EURACT Workshop: Continuing professional development, accreditation and re-certification in GP/FM: A state of art in European countries?

Introduction: Continuing Medical Education (CME) / Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is in fact the longest part of the whole continuum of medical education. In many countries CME/CPD is steered by accreditation of the specific events and programs offered and linked to the re-certification/re-licencing of the individual doctors. The purpose of the whole process of CME/CPD in General Practice/Family Medicine (GP/FM), its accreditation and re-certification is to assure the best possible practices for primary medical care: to make sure that when a citizen (healthy or not) visits a general practitioner, he will have easy access and get up-to-date care in a professional and humanistic context. Main objective of workshop: To explore and disseminate information about the situation in European countries concerning: the accreditation of the CME/CPD events and programs in GP/FM and the re-certification/re-licencing procedures for general practitioners. Methods of work: - Presentation of first results of a study by questionnaire within EURACT Council on the situation of accreditation in CME/CPD in GP/FM and on re-certification / re-licensing in Europe. - Exploring and exchanging personal experiences in different countries in small groups and finding conclusions based on these experiences. Questions to be discussed: Accreditation and re-certification rules and procedures in different countries? Relationship between CME/CPD and re-certification? How the individual educational needs can be fulfilled within the re-certification process? What is the role of peers? What is the role of governmental and university instances? Who should and could finance the procedure? How to collect the evidence? What are the quality assurance criteria?

professional development; Accreditation; re-certification

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