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Continuing Professional Development Integration of Formal CME and Quality Improvement Initiatives
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Terminology

(FORMAL) CME = formal educational interventions: conferences, rounds, symposia and individualised training and teaching sessions. Knowledge is transferred by educational activities.

CME (definition AMA): “any and all ways by which physicians learn and change in practice”

Quality development = a continuous process of planned activities based on performance review and setting of explicit targets for good clinical practice with the aim of improving the actual quality of patient care.

Integrated activity = an initiative where formal CME and QI activities are integrated in a planned coherent intervention.

Continuing professional development = a process of lifelong learning in practice. CPDs endpoint should be quality of care. CPD must help improve quality of care, demonstrate its effectiveness and become a properly managed activity by both the physician and the profession.

Method

The document is the result of a consensus procedure using semi structured expert interviews, literature reports and focus group discussions in the EQuiP and EURACT meetings from November 1998 to 2001.

The members of the EQuiP working party:
Dr Luc Seuntjens, Dr Margaret O' Riordan, Dr Niklaus Egli, Dr Margalit Goldfracht, Dr Angelo Campanini, Dr Kees in' t Veld, Dr Libuse Valkova, Dr Tomasz Tomasik, Dr Bohumil Seiffert, Prof Dr Per Hjortdahl.

The members of the EURACT working party:
Dr Paula Vainiomaki, Dr Jonah Yaphe, Dr Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic, Prof Dr Jan Heyrman, Dr Dag Søvik, Dr Eva Jurgova, Dr Anasthasios Simeonidis and Dr Bernardina Wanrooij.