Mission and objectives

EBAC adopted its Mission Statement in December 2000:

"The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC) will stimulate, coordinate, and facilitate high quality Continuing Medical Education (CME) in cardiology, both for individuals and institutions, in order to provide the highest possible standard of care for patients and populations."

EBAC takes the responsibility for the development, availability and quality of international CME in European cardiology. It will advise and help those, who wish to establish accreditation procedures in cardiology at the national level, in order to maintain the independence of the profession, (Ch.1 of EACCME Charter), facilitate individual cardiologists' international CME credit acquisition, encourage the recognition of those credits by national authorities, and finally, produce guidelines for CME in Cardiology.

EBAC will facilitate and accredit all types of international CME activities in cardiology, and promote the application of new information technologies. EBAC intends to guide practitioners in their choice of distance based CME activities by displaying the EBAC logo on the accredited Internet CME courses.

	EBAC activities

The accreditation of international CME programmes in cardiology is a service that EBAC
is proud to offer to the international medical community. EBAC accredited programmes will have the right to use the EBAC logo as a sign of their confirmed scientific and didactic quality.

EBAC at present: Set up in summer 2000, EBAC efforts have been aimed at defining its policies and procedures, and on developing administrative tools for its accreditation process.
The official launching of EBAC activities will take place in September 2001, during the ESC Annual Congress in Stockholm. Hence forward, EBAC will accept applications for accreditation of international CME events, such as congresses, conferences, workshops, and seminars, etc.

EBAC in the future: During the year 2002 EBAC will propose accreditation services of CME programmes provided at distance.
EBAC intends to create individual CME accounts for cardiologists that would allow them to self-register their EBAC CME credits using a special system. An official Certificate would indicate the number of collected EBAC CME credits and could be used for reporting to their National CME Authorities. For further details please consult the website regularly.