title: Continuous professional development for anaesthetists.
abstract: Anaesthesia, as well as the whole of medicine, is involved in a revolution not only technical but also economic, because of the need for cost-containment in healthcare delivery. Continuing medical education, primarily devoted to updating knowledge and skills, is moving rapidly towards continuous professional development. A permanent evolution of practitioners is mandatory in order that they are able to adapt their practice to technical, ethical and economic changes, integrated in a team-working and multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
authors.affiliation: Departement d'Anésthesie Réanimation 2, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille, 59037 Lille Cedex, France. pscherpereel@chru-lille.fr
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Scherpereel