EBAC

The European Board for Accreditation of Continuing Education for Health Professionals (EBAC) will stimulate, coordinate and facilitate high quality CE in medicine, both for individuals and institutions, in order to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and populations. EBAC awards CE points as a sign of quality and independence for participation in educational activities. Definitions of learning objectives, targeting the audience, and assuring objectively presented scientific content are among the key features that will be considered by EBAC when accrediting a programme.

EBAC

- accredits continuing education in the health professions, i.e. physicians, nurses, allied professions, and teams (interprofessional CE).
- endorses, and accredits according to the International Academy for CPD Accreditation (IACPDA) Standards for Substantive Equivalency between CPD/CME Accreditation Systems.

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Mission Mission EBAC will stimulate, coordinate and facilitate high quality CE in medicine, both for individuals and institutions, in order to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and populations. EBAC awards CE points as a sign of quality and independence for participation in educatio...

Covid-19 – continuing education – EBAC

Since 2020 the covid pandemic disrupted not only societies but also medical education.

What at first has been a survival strategy to many providers in 2020 has to a large part become the new normal: “live” events (webinars), delivered online, often were followed by open access to the content for varying timespans (on demand), or hybrid activities. The latter comprising

- activities with in person audience, simultaneously broadcasted online
- asynchronous learning followed by a webinar (based on the content studied during asynchronous learning)
- in person meeting followed by an opportunity to further discuss and study related material online,

this list will probably not be exhaustive.

Recent reports in the Journal of European CME (JECME) have suggested that these new formats of learning – by far the quantitatively dominating educational format in the past – are at least as effective as in person meetings.

According to JECME accrediting bodies and regulators have reacted to this change and adapted, at least temporarily, accreditation rules of e-learning and accepted electronic learning formats as equivalent proof of CME.

It is not yet clear however whether this will be considered a temporary adaption or a lasting change in accreditation policy.

EBAC has already enabled accreditation of micro-e-learning for several years, and thus, could quickly adapt to the new challenges and assimilate the new formats under this framework. EBAC accepts tracking as proof of participation for all online learning formats (for further details please refer to the relevant documents on the EBAC website, or contact the EBAC office).

Tracking has to be implemented and controlled by the provider. Only in case tracking is not available, participation can be demonstrated by answering multiple choice questions.

As already demonstrated by the current practice of online education, the new formats will

- increase outreach
- foster interactivity
- create opportunities for workplace and problem (i.e. patient) related learning
- improve sustainability of education
- facilitate faculty building
- establish long-term relations between learners and providers
- achieve a satisfying work-life-balance
- reduce cost, and carbon footprint

EBAC fully supports these new and overdue developments for the benefit of an efficient future CPD serving the medical community and their patients.

The next EBAC Meeting with Providers and Sponsors will take place on June 16th, 2017 from 11am till 4pm at Frankfurt Airport (Sheraton Hotel).

This year, we kindly ask you to complete the following survey helping us to determine the educational needs for this meeting. All data will be treated anonymously:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EBACFrankfurt2017

You also find all meeting details and the agenda on the EBAC website: www.ebac-cme.org

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