title: [Continuing medical education for the quality of the profession].
abstract: Doctors are obliged by law, for the duration of their professional career, to keep up to date their skills and knowledge base, by following developments in medical science and improvements in health technologies. This is important to build a patient/doctor relationship based on trust, in agreement with the detailed laws regulating the medical profession. The experimental stage of the national program of continuing medical education (CME) has revealed some areas which need to be developed; with the objective of guarantying healthcare workers effective training to improve the health of the patients. CME should favour the capacity of health professionals to always critically incorporate new knowledge; refine methodological skills and combine them in their everyday professional work; allowe human and professional growth.
authors.affiliation: Coordinatore della IV Sezione, Commissione Nazionale Educazione Continua in Medicina. conte.luigi@aoud.sanita.fvg.it
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Conte
mesh_terms: D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011787:Quality of Health Care