Process and Requirements
- Re-accreditation will be awarded on the basis of evidence of continuing practical experience in echocardiography and continuing learning about echocardiography.
- Re-accreditation must be applied 6 months before accreditation ends.
Criteria to assess continuing practical experience are:
- Performance of an average of 200 echocardiographic studies over the 5 years holding accreditation.
The Accreditation Assessment Committee may ask for evidence of practical experience (reports of studies or videos / clips).
- Candidates must gather 40 to 50 CME credits over the 5 years: CME credits are obtained by participating to:
- National, European and International, Echo / General Cardiology / Ultrasound meetings
- Educational courses.
If there is no official CME certificate, candidate will send:
- a copy of the programme for a national or international meeting
- and evidence of attendance (badge, receipt etc.) to the EAE Accreditation office. The EAE Accreditation Committee will then allocated a number of CME credits to the involved meeting.
Only the echo component of these meetings will count for re-accreditation.
Fees
- Re-accreditation fees are 100 euros.
- Candidates holding continuous EAE membership during 5 years: Free of charge.
Certificate
Candidates successful to re-accreditation process will be granted a certificate on which will figure their initial accreditation date.
Registration
Candidates to re-accreditation must contact the EAE Accreditation office mentionning:
Their candidates code and the location and year of their first accreditation exam (available on the exam result letter).
Year of accreditation.
Upon reply of the EAE Accreditation office, to fulfill re-accreditation file, candidates will have to send:
- Letter of supervisor attesting of the number of studies performed by the candidate
- Copy of their initial EAE accreditation diploma and accompanying letter
- CME credits certificates
- Evidences of participates (badge, receipt)
- Meetings programmes
- Certificate of continuous 5 years EAE membership if applicable.
Results of the re-accreditation are sent by email within 6 months after request.
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