title: Continuing Medical Education and Continuing Professional Development: a credit system for monitoring and promoting excellence.
abstract: Probably the most important demand on the career of a medical specialist is that of having to keep up-to-date both scientifically and professionally. But the onus does not fall only on the practitioner. The institutions involved in medical teaching and professional development also have a crucial role to play by providing opportunities for continuing education and assuring that the specialist carries out enough relevant, experience-enhancing tasks to ensure continuous professional growth. As upgrading medical knowledge and developing professionally is a life-long task, both the need and the obligation to learn and improve apply to doctors of all ages and at all hierarchical levels.
authors.affiliation: CME-CPD Credit System Committee, Union europeenne des medecins specialistes, Instituto de Urologial, Lisbon, Portugal.
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authors.lastname: Matos-Ferreira
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D013192:Staff Development / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards