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08 October 2025, 1–2 pm UTC
Are you thinking of applying for the WFME PGME Recognition Programme? Not sure what to expect and what the requirements are? Do you want to assess your organisation’s readiness to apply? Would you benefit from a practical guide towards success in this programme?
Join us for an introductory webinar sharing the most important information on how to succeed in the WFME PGME Recognition Programme.
This free-of-charge, interactive webinar, led by Dr Geneviѐve Moineau, WFME Vice-President, and Ms Jana Cohlová, Recognition Programme Project Manager, will take you through the process of the programme as well as its requirements imposed by the PGME Recognition Criteria. A question and answer session will follow.
Highlights of this webinar:
Price:
Free of charge
Background:
Launched in May 2025, following on the success of the BME Recognition Programme, the PGME Recognition Programme delivers an independent, transparent and rigorous method of ensuring that accreditation worldwide is of a high quality. WFME evaluates compliance of agencies accrediting postgraduate medical programmes and institutions with pre-defined recognition criteria. Through the process of recognition – self-evaluation and feedback from the expert visiting team – WFME shares good practice and provides quality improvement measures. Recognition Status is the indicator to the medical education community, to residents and to employers that the quality of programmes or institutions accredited by that agency is at an appropriate and rigorous level.
Target audience:
This webinar series aims to engage anyone interested in the field of postgraduate medical education, its accreditation, and WFME recognition, including:
In January 2023, Dr Geneviève Moineau was elected Vice-President of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) where she works to enhance the quality of medical education worldwide. She has led the development of the postgraduate medical education and continuing professional development recognition programmes, as well as the creation of the WFME declaration on the role of academic institutions in supporting learners and the 2025 WFME World Conference in Bangkok, Thailand.
Dr Moineau was appointed as Chief Medical Workforce Advisor for the Government of Canada’s Ministry of Health (Health Canada), in August 2023, in support of the efforts to address the health workforce crisis.
On June 30, 2023, Dr Moineau completed a 10-year term as President and CEO of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), representing all of the country’s faculties of medicine. Previously she was vice-president of medical education, and she led two accreditation agencies as Secretary to the Committee on Accreditation of Canadian Medical Schools (CACMS) and the Committee on Accreditation for Continuing Medical Education (CACME).
In 2023 she was the recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Special Recognition Award for her longstanding commitment to academic medicine as evidenced by exemplary collaboration with AAMC to advance excellence in medical education and outcome-based accreditation.
She is also the 2024 recipient of the Canadian Medical Association Léo Paul Landry Medal of Service Award for her exceptional contribution to the advancement of health care education. The University of Ottawa has also bestowed upon her their 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for her impact on positive change in medical education in Canada and around the world.
Dr Moineau is an MD graduate of the University of Ottawa and completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. She is a full Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine at the University of Ottawa and has privileges in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
She is a proud mother of 3 and grandmother of 6. She enjoys spending time discovering natural beauty all around the globe, developing her skills as a wildlife photographer and most of all spending time with her family, who bring her great joy.
Jana Cohlová joined WFME in 2021. Her role is in the management of the WFME Recognition Programme, and also includes support for the Risk Committee and the WFME office. She sometimes joins the WFME Recognition Teams.
She studied at the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, majoring in International Trade. Before joining WFME, she worked for the Social Health Institute, Palacký University Olomouc, as a project associate. She has also been running her own freelance translation and interpreting business for almost 20 years.
She is based in the Czech Republic.
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