Both UEMS and Ethical MedTech are requested for all our courses, setting the basis for an accreditation of the educational courses atended by physicians
EACCME® Accreditation of event is requested for each of the courses.
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRACategory 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities
Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/education/earn-credit-participation-international-activities.
Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
EthicalMedTech is MedTech Europe‘s compliance portal. It hosts the following MedTech industry’s initiatives in ethics and compliance as well as valuable resources. At present the following three initiatives can be found:
- The Conference Vetting System: A unique initiative that assesses the conformity of third-party educational events with the MedTech Europe Code,
- Transparent Medtech: A European centralised platform for MedTech companies to disclose publicly the financial support they provide to independent medical education,
- The Ethical Charter: A voluntary certification initiative that ensures commitment of third party educational events organisers on the application on the MedTech Europe Code provisions to the educational events for which they seek industry’s financial support.
MedTech Europe is the European trade association representing the medical technology industries, from diagnosis to cure. It represents Diagnostics and Medical Devices manufacturers operating in Europe. MedTech Europe’s mission is to make innovative medical technology available to more people, while helping healthcare systems move towards a sustainable path. MedTech Europe encourages policies that help the medical technology industry meet Europe’s growing healthcare needs and expectations. It also promotes medical technology’s value for Europe focusing on innovation and stakeholder relations, using economic research and data, communications, industry events and training sessions.