EBAC in support of inter-professional education (IPCE)
IPCE is whenever “members from two or more professions learn with, from, and about each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes,” as Kate Regnier (ACCME) pointed out at the Cologne Consensus Conference 2017, which was held on Sept. 14/15, 2017 in Cologne, Germany. While inter-professional collaboration occurs in health-care systems whenever patient outcome is […]
EBAC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada mutually recognise substantial equivalency of accreditation systems
The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) is honoured to announce that the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and EBAC have recognized each other’s accreditation systems as substantially equivalent by decisions taken on May 5th, 2017, by the Board of the European Cardiology Section Foundation (ECSF) and the CPD Department of […]
Cologne Consensus Conference 2017
The CCC 2017 is devoted to „Accreditation of interprofessional CME/ CPD“ and takes place on September 14th – 15th, 2017 in Cologne, Germany. This year, it is organized in close cooperation with ACCME and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. A first flyer can be found here.
EBAC reviewers confirm EBAC policy
Activity accreditation by consensus of independent reviewers In their recent meeting in Frankfurt on Jan. 28th, 2017 EBAC reviewers discussed the advantages of a process that requires consensus of independent reviewers and confirmed that this should remain as a core principle in the accreditation of CME/CPD activities. To make this possible EBAC has an interactive […]
EBAC discusses „micro-e-learning“
For live CME activities accreditors have already accepted, that – as long as the minimum duration of the whole event is at least 60 minutes – individual presentations may last well below 60 minutes. This principle now needs to be translated into the field of e-learning, which offers the additional option to accumulate participations over time. […]
ACCME and EBAC establish mutual substantial equivalency
Accreditation Council for CME and European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology Establish Mutual Substantial Equivalency Accreditors Collaborate to Advance Continuing Medical Education in Europe and US Chicago, IL, US; Koeln, Germany | May 31, 2016 The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) have recognized each […]