Abstract

PARDELL, Helios. The accreditation of Continuing Medical Education: Facts and Controversies. Educ. méd. [online]. 2006, vol.9, n.4b, pp.201-206. ISSN 1575-1813.

The main objective of continuing medical education (CME) accreditation is to improve the CME offer, being other additional objectives to serve as orientation of the different agents, to certify the attendance of participants, to orient the CME offer and to recognise the quality of CME providers. Among the three traditional domains of the accreditation, the accreditation of the individuals must be clearly separated and should be identified to revalidation. The other two genuine domains of the CME accreditation are the CME activities accreditation and the CME providing institutions accreditation. The CME credits are useful for three particular professional developments: professional career, revalidation and continuing professional development. Additionally one can use them for other individual promotion purposes. The CME accreditation situation in Spain is currently encouraging, with two accreditation systems actively implemented into practice and with good expectations in the European context.

Keywords : Continuing medical education; continuing medical education accreditation; continuing medical education credits.

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