EBAC Facts and Figures

Following 9 months of our activity, the time has come to have a look at some figures: since the ESC Annual Congress in Stockholm in 2001, EBAC has already accredited more than 40 CME events, and several other applications are currently in the accreditation process. Accredited CME events have taken place in 18 countries: Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and Yugoslavia. This pan-European outreach has been possible thanks to 50 CME providers aleady registered with EBAC.

EBAC is constantly working on consolidating its relationship with National Cardiac Societies and national accreditation authorities, informing them about EBAC activities and encouraging mutual recognition as well as applications for EBAC accreditation.

The decision to award EBAC accreditation to annual meetings of National Cardiac Societies held in the local language was taken in April 2002. At the same time the societies are strongly encouraged to enlarge the presence of international faculty and to hold sessions in English in order to attract an international audience.

In September 2002 EBAC will be launching its 12-month pilot project concerning accreditation of distance learning educational activities. In this newsletter you will find the first part of the " Policy on Accreditation of CME Programmes Provided at Distance". Your comments and suggestions are welcome.