The purpose of continuing professional development/continuing medical education (CPD/CME) is to promote maintenance and continuous improvement of the competence and performance of individual medical doctors or healthcare teams in providing exemplary healthcare for patients.

Accreditation systems are intended to serve doctors and healthcare teams by establishing that accredited education has complied with established accreditation standards.

The International Academy for Continuing Professional Development Accreditation (the Academy) has developed a shared set of international standards to guide the accreditation of continuing professional development/continuing medical education (CPD/CME) for medical doctors (doctors) and health care teams globally. WFME has adopted these standards as the criteria for its CPD Recognition of Accreditation Programme. The compliance with the criteria shall determine whether an accrediting agency is awarded the WFME CPD Recognition Status. The Recognition Status allows stakeholders – national authorities, regulators, credentialing bodies, certifying bodies, and most importantly, doctors and their patients – to know that the accredited education in support of improved patient care and patient safety meets a high level of independence, rigor, content validity, quality of design, and outcome measures. An added benefit is the ability to form agreements related to reciprocity of “credit” in jurisdictions that have and/or value credit as a currency of CPD/CME.

Would you like to learn more about the WFME CPD Recognition Programme? Would you like to apply for the WFME CPD Recognition Status?

Contact us at cpd.recognition@wfme.org.