Apollo Knowledge Series Enhancing Knowledge. Improving Outcomes

Apart from providing updates, CME also helps registered medical practioners in ensuring their recertification. In 2011, the Medical Council of India made a mandatory resolution for physicians to attend a minimum of 30 hours of CME in 5 years to ensure recertification.

Continuing medical education, also referred as CME, consists of educational activities that serve to maintain, develop and increase the knowledge, skills, including professional performance of a medical practitioner/physician to provide better services to the patients.

CME is crucial to the prosperity of doctors and other medical practitioners. It allows medical practitioners to learn and discover practical ways to improve patient care and manage their career effectively in the ever-changing landscape of the healthcare industry. Apart from providing updates, CME also helps registered medical practitioners in ensuring their recertification.

CME, in general use, refers to educational events that were approved for CME credits. CME credits are important to doctors as Medical Council of India specified number of credits yearly to maintain medical licenses, and as most hospitals require a specified number of credits for their doctors to remain credentialed to see their patients. Authorized accreditation councils and licensing authorities award CME credits for maintenance of physicians’ licensures.

30 hours!
In 2011, the Medical Council of India made a mandatory resolution for physicians to attend a minimum of 30 hours of CME in 5 years to ensure recertification.

Doctors use CME credit points to show that they have participated in educational activities and obtained CME credit to meet the needs of state medical boards, medical specialty societies, specialty boards, hospital medical staffs, the Joint Commission, insurance groups, and others.

Offline CMEs are conducted at a specific location in a city and offers Drs the convenience of attending the program in person, hence, participation to offline CMEs are by invitation, while Online CMEs are delivered digitally, typically either through MicroSoft Teams or Zoom. This is advantageous for Drs to participate in the program where ever they are located and with the convenience of taking a break from their busy practice schedules

Specialists at Apollo, plan the Apollo Knowledge Series programs keeping in mind the Doctors’ practice interests and knowledge enhancement objectives in mind. The topics are finalized based on the current disease issues challenging humanity, clinical advancements, innovations and periodic suggestions from Doctors on topics of their interest

At Apollo, we are sensitive to the practice pressures of the Doctors and the occasional challenge to attend CMEs on topics of their interest, hence we are in the process of creating a bank of recording of CMEs, especially online CMEs and make them available online to view the proceedings with just a click

Apollo shall share the link to the online CME, prior to start of the program, with the Dr through a message. The Doctors may have to if required, download either Microsoft Teams or Zoom app in their mobile phones or other compatible devices

Doctors can send an e-mail on aks@apollohospitals.com stating their request and the team shall revert appropriate response