EBAC Newsletter

"Automatic recognition of EBAC points in Germany and Austria"

Although EBAC certificates are endorsed by a great number of national societies, cardiologists have been frequently facing bureaucratic obstacles when applying for recognition of EBAC CME points in their home countries.
For German and Austrian cardiologists this procedure has now been largely simplified:

1/ EBAC has signed an agreement that with a starting point of the ESC Congress 2011 EBAC certificates will show the technical data needed to enter the certificate directly into the nationwide data bank for CME activities in Germany. Cardiologists in Germany now only need to put their personalized barcode on the certificate in order to get their EBAC CME points recognized for their personal CME certificate, which is mandatory by law in Germany.

2/ For Austria the Österreichische Akademie der Ärzte has provided EBAC with a statement to be printed on the certificates that EBAC accredited events will automatically be recognized in Austria.

This is a major step forward towards automatized recognition of EBAC CME points on the national level and adds additional value to the CME activities of cardiologists visiting EBAC accredited events.