Roles and Responsibilities in the Provision of Accredited Continuing Medical Education/Continuing Professional Development

摘要

Reinhard Griebenow ab* , Craig Campbell c , Graham T. McMahon d , Kate Regnier d , Jennifer Gordon c , Eugene Pozniak e , Daiana Stolz f , Amir Qaseem g , Gerd Antes h , Samar Aboulsoud i , Helmut K?nig j , Dirk Schulenburg k , Hans Gehle l , Peter Mills b , Lampros Michalis ab , Heinz Weber b & Robert Schaefer a a European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) , Cologne , Germany b European Cardiology Section Foundation (ECSF) , Cologne , Germany c Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada , Ottawa , Canada d Accreditation Council for CME (ACCME) , Chicago , USA e Siyemi Learning , Manchester , UK f Clinic for Pulmonary Medicine and Respiratory Cell Research , University Hospital Basel , Basel , Switzerland g American College of Physicians (ACP) , Philadelphia , PA , USA h German Cochrane Center, Center for Medical Biometry and Medical Informatics , University of Freiburg , Freiburg , Germany i Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners , Ministry of Public Health , Doha , Qatar j Beiten Burkhardt Lawyers , Dusseldorf , Germany k Chamber of Physicians North-Rhine , Duesseldorf , Germany l Marburger Bund , Berlin , Germany CONTACT Reinhard Griebenow griebenow@online.de European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) , Cologne , Germany The Cologne Consensus Conference 2015 has focused on “Providers in accredited CME[continuing medical education]/CPD [continuing professional development]”. As an outcome of the CCC 2015, the authors of this paper, who were part of the faculty, propose a contemporary definition of the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders involved in the different stages of planning, delivery and evaluation of CME/CPD.