Welcome from EBAP's President

EBAP has recently been reconstituted and will now operate under supervision of a Management Council composed of members nominated by the Forum of European Respiratory Societies (FERS) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). As before it will liaise with UEMS/EACCME in providing accreditation for CME events and other educational packages. We hope to be able to use the new electronic platform currently being commissioned by UEMS/EACCME. This should make the process of application for accreditation more user-friendly and faster.  

The new EBAP is committed to improving the quality of European CME. It will develop detailed and rigorous criteria to encourage CME providers to create educational material which will influence clinical practice. It will attempt to change the emphasis in CME from teaching to learning. With providers, the new EBAP will explore the different modalities of education and the means of assessing their effects on learning. Doctors will be asked to demonstrate that they have benefited from an educational experience before being awarded CME credits.

We hope that the new EBAP will contribute to the quiet revolution which is taking place in CME provision, accreditation and effectiveness. Life-long learning should be exciting, challenging and rewarding.

Prof. Robin Stevenson
EBAP President

EBAP Latest News

Cooperation Agreement signed with the UEMS/EACCME

EBAP had a very good start in 2009 and is pleased to announce that a cooperation agreement has been signed with the UEMS/EACCME.

Under the terms of this agreement, all applications in the field of Pneumology will be evaluated by EBAP. EBAP will review the quality and independence of the CME events or products.

In this evaluation process, EBAP will work according to EACCME rules and will liaise with the UEMS/EACCME office for submission of the accreditation requests to the relevant National Accreditation Authority in order to obtain their recognition of the European Accreditation.

 View full agreement with the UEMS/EACCME