Continuing medical education

Continuing medical education (CME) or continuing professional development (CPD) consists of educational activities which serve to maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a medical practitioner uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession. The content of CME is that body of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the profession as within the basic medical sciences, the discipline of clinical medicine, and the provision of health care to the public.

Many regulatory bodies make a doctor's registration conditional on the acquisition of credits through following CME activities.

Source: Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations, July 1999.

Example of a company that provides Continuing Medical Education to the medical industry: www.imedex.com