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A lively audience gathered at the NH Barbizon Palace Hotel in Amsterdam, 10-11 November 2011, to discuss the current status of Continuing Medical Education (CME) and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) for healthcare professionals across Europe and the important role of all the stakeholders involved.
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PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS:
Session 1: Approaching an educational activity
Jonas guided us through some key educational principles, using this meeting as an example. He helped identify our own educational needs and guided us as to how to get the most from the two days.
Jonas Nordquist, Director, Medical Case Centre, Karolinska Institute
Session 2: The four core principles of good CME practice
The Good CME Practice Group has completed their consultation process and have finalised their practical guidelines on how education providers should engage in CME. The four core principles address questions such as:
Chair: Jacqui Thornton, Independent healthcare consultant
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Session 3: [How] can CME change clinical practice?
Is it possible for a CME activity to effect a change on clinical practice? Can it indeed help doctors adhere to Guidelines? Is there a link? Is there a role for CME when it comes to looking at changing clinical practice? We heard from individuals who have been examining these questions in detail and assessed the role CME has to play.
Chair: Eamann Breatnach, Chair, Education Committee; Chair, EDiR Subcommittee, European Society of Radiology.
Miklos Udvardy, Chair CME Committee European Hematology Association
Thomas Kellner, Managing Partner, AXDEV Europe
Helmut Madersbacher, Chairman EU-ACME Committee
Session 4: Aligning regulations for compliant CME
We are now entering a phase of CME development in Europe where there is an expectation that the pharmaceutical industry supports CME, even if their involvement is not as significant as in the US. But what should their role be? Should they be selecting the faculty, or driving the content development? Clearly not. But where are the rules to show them the way to support CME activities? The pharmaceutical industry is now needing to follow ever stricter transparency and Corporate Integrity rules, with some very stiff penalties in the event of non-compliance or breech. But who is guiding them when it comes to supporting CME in Europe? It is clearly a problem and this session examined how the different groups can work together for compliant CME - from all stakeholders.
Chair: Jacqui Thornton, Independent healthcare consultant
Edwin Borman, Chair, UEMS-EACCME CME Taskforce
Reinhard Griebenow, Chair, European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology - EBAC
Brendan Barnes, EFPIA Director Health Policy & Corporate Responsibility
Session 5: Question Time
Robin chaired this highly popular session, leading a panel of experts to address questions from the floor.
Chair: Robin Stevenson, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of European CME; Immediate Past Chair, EBAP
Session 6: Born in the USA? Measuring the true value of CME
There is much discussion about best CME practices from the US and lessons that Europeans should be learning. But do you know what are they? What are the mistakes they have made that we should be listening to? Maureen and Laura presented a series of CME case studies from the US, highlighting practical lessons that we can learn for the European setting.
Maureen Doyle-Scharff, Senior Director, Team Lead, Medical Education Group, Pfizer
Session 7: Learning about learning
What is important when planning an educational activity? How is it possible to engage a group of learners already experts in their field? Jonas guided us through the relevant education principles that can be applied in practice in CME programming, how to identify what is important and what techniques work in reality.
Jonas Nordquist, Director, Medical Case Centre, Karolinska Institute
Session 8: CME unsession
The final session of the meeting is one with no agenda and where the audience made up the discussion panel.
Lawrence Sherman, SVP Educational Strategy, Prova Education
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