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.

Meetings ahead:

EBAC Meeting with Providers and Sponsors

June 6th, 2019, 11am-4pm

Sheraton Airport Hotel
Frankfurt, Germany

Tentative tops on the agenda might be

- accreditation of micro-e-learning
- accreditation of inter-professional education
- provider accreditation
- EBAC initiative “Certification of Professional Competence”

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1st EBAC Provider Training

June 7th, 2019, 10am- 4pm

Sheraton Airport Hotel
Frankfurt, Germany

This meeting aims to convene all providers who already have agreed or are interested to become an accredited provider, and will address the concept as well as practical issues of provider accreditation.

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If you or another representative of your organisation is interested in joining us for one or both meetings please send us an email to [email protected]

Save the date: "EBAC with Providers and Sponsors"

"MEET EBAC"

will be held on June 8, 2018,
11am-4pm,
at Sheraton Airport Hotel, Frankfurt.

We are proud to announce that this year MEET EBAC will be moderated by Sophie Wilson (International Medical Press).

This meeting aims to facilitate the bureaucratic process when applying for EBAC accreditation. Thus, it has been designed to particularly meet the needs of those directly involved in processing the applications. Thus, please feel free to send as many staff members as you think maybe useful.

Looking forward to seeing you in Frankfurt!

EBAC supports the Cologne Consensus Conference 2017 which is devoted to the topic of “Accreditation of interprofessional CME/ CPD” and takes place on September 14th – 15th, 2017 in Cologne, Germany. This year, it is organized in close cooperation with ACCME and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

EBAC and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada mutually recognise substantial equivalency of accreditation systems

The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) is honoured to announce that the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and EBAC have recognized each other’s accreditation systems as substantially equivalent by decisions taken on May 5th, 2017, by the Board of the European Cardiology Section Foundation (ECSF) and the CPD Department of the Royal College, respectively.

Substantial equivalency is a relationship between CME accreditors based on shared principles and values, while recognizing and accepting differences.

To achieve this mutual recognition, EBAC and the Royal College completed a rigorous evaluation process, demonstrating that their accreditation standards advance high quality, effective CME.

This agreement will be followed by a statement on conversion of CME points between both systems. As a result EBAC will offer to Canadian providers to directly issue EBAC certificates to European participants to avoid any additional conversion procedures.

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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EBAC discusses “micro-e-learning”

For live CME activities accreditors have already accepted, that, as long as the minimum duration of the whole event is at least 60 minutes, individual presentations may last well below 60 minutes. This principle now needs to be translated into the field of e-learning, which offers the additional option to accumulate participations over time.

With this regard EBAC has run a workshop in September 2016, involving the experience of major stakeholders in order to come to a definition of principles for accreditation of “micro-e-learning”.

Please find the executive summary of the workshop here:
http://www.ebac-cme.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/EBAC-Newsletter-2016-IV.pdf

www.ebac-cme.org