Description
In 1994, the Academy of Royal Colleges took the lead in setting up Continuing Medical Education (CME) schemes for hospital doctors, believing that the medical profession must own this process and recognising that the continuing education of doctors is now firmly in the public domain. CME is part of the process of lifelong learning that all doctors undertake from medical school until retirement and has traditionally been narrowly viewed by the medical profession in terms of knowledge update. However, all career grade doctors and scientists (including consultants, locums, associate specialists, staff grade doctors and clinical assistants) need skills that extend beyond updating their medical or scientific knowledge in order to survive and practice effectively in the modern NHS.
