CME Excellence Summit and Awards

ABOUT THE INITIATIVE

Cme’s Current Scenario In India

In a country like India, which lacks basic healthcare infrastructure and skilful doctors, CMEs plays not only a role in upgrading knowledge of Doctors but also helps in improving various therapy outcomes.

CME is not new to us, its been helping millions of Doctors avail new medical training at national and international level. In this fast transforming era, which is witnessing plethora of new drug regimen, surgical procedures and technique are getting introduced with faster rate, CMEs has become need of the hour.

The Medical Council of India established a code of ethics stating that members should complete 30 hours of Continuing Medical Education (CME) every Five years in order to re-register as Doctors, but only about 20% of India’s Doctors followed this as it was not legally binding. In a major development, the Medical Council of India made it mandatory for Doctors to attend a minimum of 30 hours of CME every five years to ensure re-certification. This has triggered much activity and good work in the field of providing Continuing Medical Education to the Doctors amidst a number of challenges.

THE CME EXCELLENCE MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES

Beginning of the CME Excellence Movement 2021: 2nd March 2021

Heads of the top societies and experts to be invited to set the context of the CME Excellence Movement 2021

Launch of the CME Excellence Movement: 21st April 2021

●  Opening Session with key government officials and private organizations, state health
●  department and other key stakeholders
●  Media, health journalist and industry leaders
●  Video presentations and special addresses by the domain experts and doctors
●  Virtual Summit live streamed on IHW Council’s digital media platforms

STRATEGIC ROUNDTABLES

1st Strategic Roundtable: Second Week of May
2nd Strategic Roundtable: Fourth Week of May

A series of Roundtable discussions will witness Heads of the top societies and experts

●  Four Month engagement with Key experts and Doctors starting from March till April
●  Each diseases area and topic will discuss the scope of improvement and new development and promoted
●  Each Roundtable will be promoted on social media and other media platforms to establish the value among the industry leaders and stakeholders

CME EXCELLENCE WEEK & AWARDS 2021

14th to 19th June 2021: Summit & Awards

The week long interactive and rewarding forum will cover multilateral aspects of training procedures everyday on various subjects and topics while recognizing worthy and outstanding contribution of key people in medical and healthcare sector.

● Two Specialty would be covered everyday for a week
● A combination of specialty and domain experts, Doctors, KOLs, Top Government officials and influencers would be part of the daily opening session and panel discussions throughout the week
● Daily CME Dronacharya Awards felicitation for a week covering more than 200 Awards in multiple categories
● Moderated and chaired by health journalist and dignitaries

CME DRONACHARYA AWARDS

CME Dronacharya Awards will recognize the contribution and excellent work done by the doctors in various therapy areas with the help of CME.

THOUGHT PROVOKING SESSIONS: 2nd March 2021

● Role & Impact of CME in India

With such a vast population and limited number of doctors, it becomes extremely important for Doctors to constantly upgrade their therapy area’s knowledge. CME plays an important role, and also improves various therapies’ productive outcomes. The session will highlight the impact of CME in various therapy areas in the last one decade and its future impact on each therapy area.

● Continuing Medical Education in India: Beyond Workshops and Conferences

Traditionally, existing in the folds of various workshops and medical conferences conducted in hospitals or societies, Continuing Medical Education has not yet caught the relevance and necessary attention of the policymakers and medical fraternity in India, and perhaps even in the world. Considering that CME is one of the most important contributors to ensure quality healthcare, it has not deserved the kind of importance among experts and in public domains which it should have. While India has a skewed doctor-to-patient ratio, with the country needing over 20 lakh doctors by 2030, it becomes most essential that the existing healthcare workforce doesn’t lose its teeth and that doctors are armed with the latest knowledge in the world of medical sciences.