This document discusses continuous medical education (CME) and continuous professional development (CPD) in Europe. It provides an overview of the different regulatory tiers for CME/CPD from the personal to international levels. The European Accreditation Council for CME (EACCME) facilitates quality CME across Europe through accreditation, guidelines, and mutual recognition agreements. The document outlines EACCME's processes for accrediting live events, e-learning materials, publications, teaching and examining. It provides examples of CME activities accredited for laboratory medicine and pathology specialties in recent years. Finally, it discusses proposals to advance CME/CPD through European collaboration and consensus guidelines.

1. UEMS/EACCME
CME/CPD: Continuous Medical
Education and Professional
Development in Europe
WASPALM Xian 2019
Augusto Machado, Porto, Portugal
Gilbert C Faure, Nancy, France
On behalf of UEMS Laboratory Medicine/Medical Biopathology
section
Thanks to Bernard Maillet, UEMS Treasurer

2. CME
CPD
CME: Continuous Medical Education
Maintenance of Academic Knowledge and Skills
CPD: Continuous Professional Development
• Updating, Developing and Enhancing how MDs
apply Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes required in
their working lives
• … includes CME + Personal, Managerial, IT,
Communication and Social skills

3. International regulation
Five tiers of regulation
Personal
regulation
National
regulation
Workplace
regulation
Peer & team based
regulation
UEMS WG on CME/CPD

4. EACCME
European accreditation Council
UEMS Policy:
Quality and harmonization of CME in Europe
Facilitating access to international CME
Developing quality guidelines
Maintaining national authority

5. EACCME
Delivery of ECMECs
European CME credits
Quality criteria
• Clear learning objectives
• Non-biased education
• Precised target audience
• Control of attendanceand Report after event

6. EACCME
Mutual recognition
International Network
USA/AMA: from 2006, now 2010 formal incl. e-learning
Canada: pilot, only live events
others: Japan, Australasia, Middle East
Principles
• Different Health Care Systems
• Based on trust but similar criteria
• Only part of the whole « portfolio » of MDs
• Borders are vanishing

7. EACCME 2.0
Inclusion of new formats
Live events, e-learning material
also teaching, publishing, reviewing
Online CME applications
Simpler procedures, quality preserved, shorter
processes
Involvement of providers… « trusted » providers
Stress on quality control
Extending the system to Allied Health Professions:
pharmacists, dentists, nurses, lab technicians…

8. EACCME
Flowcharts

9. New Formats of Learning
LEE : Live Educational Events
ELM: E-learning Material
Modules, e-platform, APP, e-library
Publication review:
Recognition of CME/CPD activities:
Reviewing scientific and educational material (REV)
Publishing scientific and educational material (PUB)
Learning by Teaching (LbT)
Examiner in a UEMS Exam

10. UEMS Laboratory Medicine
(Medical biopathology) section
>120 Activities accredited
 2008: 9; 2009: 10 2010: 20 2011: 18 + 15 modules IMV
Monaco
– 2012: 13
– 2013: 7
– 2014: 8 + ESH ITP E-learning
– 2015: 11 + Issues in the Design of Clinical Trials for
Hemophilia E-learning
– 2016 : 8
– 2017 : 4 (ESCAA, ESID, MedLab, EVD)
– 2018: 7 (ESCAA, EHA, ESID, MedLab +) E-learning
ESID
– 2019: 7 (EFLM, Thalassemia, LH)

11. Content curation of relevant
topics with
CME/CPD opened Nov 18, 2011
“Life long learning for MDs in Europe and elsewhere” :
>3200 scoops , > 6500 views, >3K visitors
Content: UEMS, CME, AMA Journal, MOOCs
Laboratory Medicine and Med Biopathology
Opened 10/2013
>1800 scoops, >3700 views, >1,3K visitors
Precision medicine, PDL-1, Quality, drones…

12. UEMS Pathology section
since 1988
https://europathol.wordpress.com/about/
Live Events
2017 : 12+
2018: 29
2019: 35
E-learning Material none
After EUROPALS…
Pathology Progress Test 2018

13. European Council
Forum/Conference on European CPD
Connect leading professional / scientific stakeholders in European Specialty Medicine
Contribute to quality / harmonization of CPD in Europe (consensus guidelines)
Help in making life easier for our colleagues by easing access to international CPD
(presentation/exchange tools, e.g. e-platforms)
Collaboration - European Projects (e.g. OLIMPE)
Maintaining: specialty autonomy + national authority
https://www.uems.eu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0014/53240/4-European-Council-for-CME-CPD-Dr-Fras.pdf

14. UEMS/EACCME