Medical and scientific publisher Informa Healthcare's recently launched CMEcast service has announced that its first four educational courses have received official approval from the European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) as EBAC Accredited Educational Programmes. Informa Healthcare claims to be the first publisher to secure online CME course accreditation from the cardiology organisation.
EBAC is an initiative by the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes (UEMS) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), which represents more than 70,000 cardiology professionals across Europe and the Mediterranean. ESC comprises 54 national cardiac societies, 34 affiliated cardiac societies, 19 working groups, five associations and five councils.
The EBAC-accredited podcast programme is directed by author and researcher Dr. Dimitri P. Mikhailidis of the Royal Free Hospital, London. The first four individual podcasts-featuring Dr. Mikhailidis (Non-Cardiac Vascular Disease: An Overview), Dr. Tony Wierzbicki (Hypertriglyceridaemia: epidemiology, pathophysiology & management), Dr. Ioanna Gouni-Berthold (LDL-lowering Drugs in Addition to Statins) and Dr. Devaki Nair (Familial Hypercholestrolaemia)-are available free of charge to site registrants for an introductory period.
CMEcast is a new audio podcast-based platform to meet physicians' needs for flexible global unaccredited and accredited continuing medical education. The service seeks to connect busy physicians with high sound quality MP3-format podcasts for anytime, anywhere learning. CMEcast has also added another CMEcast-accredited course for healthcare professionals - 'Peri-procedural Myocardial Infarction and Contrast-induced Acute Kidney Injury' by Dr. Carlo Briguori. CMEcast will also be applying for EBAC accreditation of Dr. Briguori's podcast.
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