EBAC

Meetings ahead:

EBAC Meeting with Providers and Sponsors

June 6th, 2019, 11am-4pm

Sheraton Airport Hotel
Frankfurt, Germany

Tentative tops on the agenda might be

- accreditation of micro-e-learning
- accreditation of inter-professional education
- provider accreditation
- EBAC initiative “Certification of Professional Competence”

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1st EBAC Provider Training

June 7th, 2019, 10am- 4pm

Sheraton Airport Hotel
Frankfurt, Germany

This meeting aims to convene all providers who already have agreed or are interested to become an accredited provider, and will address the concept as well as practical issues of provider accreditation.

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If you or another representative of your organisation is interested in joining us for one or both meetings please send us an email to [email protected]

EBAC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada mutually recognise substantial equivalency of accreditation systems

The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) is honoured to announce that the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and EBAC have recognized each other’s accreditation systems as substantially equivalent by decisions taken on May 5th, 2017, by the Board of the European Cardiology Section Foundation (ECSF) and the CPD Department of the Royal College, respectively.

Substantial equivalency is a relationship between CME accreditors based on shared principles and values, while recognizing and accepting differences.

To achieve this mutual recognition, EBAC and the Royal College completed a rigorous evaluation process, demonstrating that their accreditation standards advance high quality, effective CME.

This agreement will be followed by a statement on conversion of CME points between both systems. As a result EBAC will offer to Canadian providers to directly issue EBAC certificates to European participants to avoid any additional conversion procedures.

EBAC discusses “micro-e-learning”

For live CME activities accreditors have already accepted, that, as long as the minimum duration of the whole event is at least 60 minutes, individual presentations may last well below 60 minutes. This principle now needs to be translated into the field of e-learning, which offers the additional option to accumulate participations over time.

With this regard EBAC has run a workshop in September 2016, involving the experience of major stakeholders in order to come to a definition of principles for accreditation of “micro-e-learning”.

Please find the executive summary of the workshop here:
http://www.ebac-cme.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/EBAC-Newsletter-2016-IV.pdf

www.ebac-cme.org