Courses in Anaesthesiology
"CEEA Aim : Continuing medical education to improve professional practice"
The main goal of the CEEA (Committee for European Education in Anaesthesiology) is to maintain and to raise the standards of anaesthetic care at the highest possible level through Continuing Medical Education in Anaesthesiology, part of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD). Continuing Medical Education is a lifelong process and should remain an ethical obligation under the monitoring of the profession itself. The CEEA intends to organise its activities on the model of the Charter of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) for the CME.
The concept of the courses organised by the CEEA follows the guidelines incorporated in the Dublin declaration of the UEMS, in particular in its article 9 :
“At the fully qualified level further education generally comes from interaction of informed and trained minds with one another and with external reality. Formal lectures and classes have only a part to play. Discussions among small groups of colleagues with and without invited experts together with the classical activities enumerated above are the principal methods.”
The CEEA CME programme is based upon a cycle of six courses, covering in an integrated teaching programme all aspects of the speciality, including anaesthesia, intensive care, emergency medicine and pain therapy. On the basis of one course per year, an anaesthesiologist should complete a full cycle of six courses before starting again a new cycle. Six years is considered the best compromise between the time to cover the full programme and the period to renew out-of-date knowledge. This period copes with the delay for recertification introduced in most of the countries. The CEEA courses are accredited in European countries by the national system of accreditation and the EACME.
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