The phrase "a formal certification of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an official document or acknowledgment that verifies a certain status, qualification, or achievement.
Example: "The university provided a formal certification of my degree upon graduation."
Alternatives: "an official confirmation of" or "a formal acknowledgment of".
The argument in favor of a formal certification process for CCE is that it may ensure that the participant has reached some predefined skill level.
Depending on where you study, you may also need to take a formal certification course at the end of the degree, and in some countries, being licensed (licensure) is a prerequisite to being allowed to work or as or call yourself a "civil engineer".
Study physicians had participated in training sessions and actual examination of patients under observation using a formal certification process.
Instead, on the morning of 20 March, Dr John Meehan, a consultant psychiatrist at the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, dictates and signs a formal certification stating that Stuart Goddard is suffering from clinical depression and that participation in the tour would place him under extreme mental stress.
He does offer the feeble defense that Facebook asked for, and received, a formal certification from the company verifying it deleted the data, but it was clearly insufficient. .
The working group decided that a formal certification process for basic CCE was not required but that a certification process was required to ensure competence in advanced CCE given the complexity of the field and the need for recognition of high skill level by colleagues and administrative entities.
We believe that it is necessary to have a more formal certification procedure of EHR-systems and ePrescribing.
Someday, I expect there will be a more formal certification required, like lawyers and accountants have to pass, to hang out their shingle.
A priori interest factors were those plausibly associated: the type of institution (university vs. non-university), presence of an intensivist on a daily basis, availability of a dedicated US machine, intensivists' formal certification in critical care, proportion of POCUS-trained intensivists (low vs. high level), and payoff.
