It also has broader implications for continuing professional development and maintenance of competence and quality assurance in specialist practice.
The ACCME's mission is the identification, development, and promotion of standards for quality continuing medical education (CME) utilized by physicians in their maintenance of competence and incorporation of new knowledge to improve quality medical care for patients and their communities.
We modeled the question diary after the paper version of the question portfolio of the Maintenance of Competence Program (MOCOMP) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Consequently ongoing training continues to be made available locally (up to four times a year) in a theoretical and skills-based workshop format to ensure maintenance of competence.
Maintenance of competence includes participation in ongoing professional development to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and attitudes relevant to practice in a clinical, management, education or research setting [ 59].
A comparison of medical school graduates of Calgary and the University of Alberta (which has a four-year curriculum) showed Calgary graduates' satisfaction levels to be comparable to or higher than those of Alberta graduates regarding their training, practice patterns, specialty choices, and maintenance of competence in clinical practice.
Physician-related factors, such as age, gender, years since graduation, practice setting, patient population profile and adherence to maintenance-of-competence activities can also affect SM use [ 5, 8, 10- 13].
Given the generally lower proportion of pediatric patients seen by the EMS providers and the unique characteristics of children as patients, EMS systems need to take special care to ensure competence and maintenance of skills in their providers.
Many employers and relicensure agencies accept these units as evidence of your serious commitment to career advancement and the maintenance of professional competence.
