GAME

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GAME

• GLOBAL ALLIANCE
• for
• MEDICAL EDUCATION
• Rome, June 18-20 2006

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Game

• Global Alliance for Medical Education is a non
  profit organization for the advancement of
  innovation in medical education troughout the
  world

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GAME

• MISSION
• To provide an International forum where
  innovative idea in CME are shared among opinion
  leaders. People involved include
• Educators from Medical Schools, Medical
  Specialties and Medical National Societies,
  Medical education companies
• Managers and administrators from education
  offices and government
• Marketing professionals from Medical education
  companies and medical publishers
• Pharmaceutical company managers with the
  responsability of education.

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Game conference Rome

• Partners in organizing the conference
• UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialties) Prof
  Bernard Maillet
• FNOMcEO (Italian Professional Medical
  Organization) Dr Giorgio Berchicci UEMS
  Vicepresident
• FISM (Federation of Italian Scientific Medical
  Societies) Prof. Pasquale Spinelli
• GAME President James Arnott

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ISSUES DISCUSSED AT THE CONFERENCE

• Mandatory or Volunteer CME in the world
• Commercial Support
• E-learning
• Outcome of CME

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GAME (Mandatory or Voluntary CME)

• The issue of mandatory or voluntary CME around
  the world shows different approach to the
  problem.
• In many European, American, Asian and Latin
  American countries CME is mandatory for all
  physicians.
• Prof Maillet said the best target should be
  education on a volunteer basis, but the risk is
  to have doctors not updated on their work and the
  quality of assistance compromised for insurance
  companies.

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GAMECommercial support

• The unanimous believing was that financial
  support from companies is very common, but the
  support should never interfere with the aims or
  the quality of a CME event.
• Strict rules must be done between Europe and US
  since the credits on International basis are
  recognized from both European and North American
  countries.
• A common policy, on this issue, has been warmly
  supported by actors.
• Europeans and US professionals can have the
  opportunity to find resourses former Eastern
  European Countries might not be so lucky.

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GAMEE-Learning

• E-learning is the most important issue in the
  future of CME but there should be a great work
  done on the accountability and accreditation of
  CME.
• The physician who attends the e- learning should
  be rewarded the proof and the reliability of the
  learning done carefully evaluated by the
  commission.
• There must be a proof for the content of learning
  and a reward for the physician who acceded the
  web.

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E -learning

• The most important problem with e-learning has to
  deal with the organization and the technologies
  used for this purpose.
• The CME group should conjugate technologies and
  organization to correctly measure the outcome of
  this experience.
• A pre and post test should be given to all
  partecipants.
• The result should clearly enhance the value of
  this experience since the cost for the
  Institution is clearly lower if the applicant is
  not travelling away.

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The outcome of CME

• How important an event is to your personal
  behaviour? How much the event has changed your
  way of thinking and acting?
• Is your change in the behaviour stable after some
  months?
• The organization should be able to understand the
  transfer of knowledge and understand the
  demographic involved on the query (age,
  specialty, involvment in the health care system).

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The outcome of CME

• Since a lot of work has been done on this issue
  Institutions should share solutions and try to
  work harder on this item.

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Game final issues I

• The most important problems underlined on this
  issue are
• Accountability of CME
• Peer review of CME
• CME done by Medical professionals
• Financial recognition by UEMS
• Financial reward of the work done
• Mutual recognition of credits with reciprocity
  around the world.

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Game final issues II

• Equivalency of credits
• Glossary of CME
• Official common draft of the conference
• Lifelong learning in medical education

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Game next conference

• USA
• Brusselles