The role of the ERA-EDTA in organizing continuing medical education in Europe for nephrology, dialysis and renal transplantation.
Continuing medical education (CME) is a process not to be ignored by the medical profession of nephrology. Each country has already organized or is going to organize a national CME system providing individual modalities of credit distribution and control. The European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) has considered the need to work together with the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) to study and to promote a unified CME system in Europe with the aim of defending the quality of a comparably high level of specialist care given to patients in the EU. To this aim, the ERA-EDTA has created a European Accreditation Council for CME in nephrology, dialysis and renal transplantation (ERA-EDTA EACCME). It acts not on-ly by accrediting European meetings providing great educational value, but aims to expand the commitment of the ERA-EDTA in educational activities everywhere in Europe. Continuous medical education activity started in 2004 with a series of residential courses. Finally, the ERA-EDTA entered the newly formed Board of Nephrology for CME, which will work to homogenize the training level of nephrologists in Europe aimed at CME, as well as continuing professional education (CPE) for nephrologists. The new ERA-EDTA activities for CME in nephrology, dialysis and renal transplantation will renew the role of this scientific society for all European nephrologists (www.era-edta.org/era-courses.asp).
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Department of Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation, Regina Margherita Hospital, Turin, Italy. nefrologia@oirmsantanna.piemonte.it
D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000193:education*; D009398:Nephrology / Q000193:education*; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012955:Societies, Medical