Continuing Medical Education in Republic of Armenia
AbstractContinuing Medical Education (CME) development is the process by which health professionals keep updated to meet the needs of patients, the health service, and their own professional development. It includes the continuous acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and attitudes to enable competent practice. There is no sharp division between continuing medical education and continuing professional development, as during the past decade continuing medical education has come to include managerial, social, and personal skills, topics beyond the traditional clinical medical subjects. The term continuing professional development acknowledges not only the wide ranging competences needed to practice high quality medicine but also the multidisciplinary context of patient care. Internationally there is a move from continuing medical education (or clinical update) to continuing professional development, including medical, managerial, social, and personal skills Continuing professional development is a process of lifelong learning in practice. Although the international systems vary in detail, there are many common features of content and process that allow international mutual recognition of activities in professional development. Most systems are based on an hour’s related credits system. In this article we review and compare the system of CME in Armenia and EU.
Keywords:• Continuing Medical Education
• Credits in CME