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The continuing education of doctors criticized by practitioners

12/27/2020, 10:55:47 PM


The unions are stepping up to the plate against the state agency responsible for its management, deemed too technocratic.

It is a rant to denounce the administrative machine.

The recent resignation of Jean-François Thébaut, president of the High Council for Continuing Professional Development (DPC), highlights the need to review the organization of continuing education for private doctors.

An important issue for the quality of care.

Practitioners have a duty to inform themselves about the progress of medicine necessary for their activity, the code of medical ethics requiring that they provide care

"in accordance with the data acquired from science".

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Funded by Medicare, conventional training, long managed by a joint body between medical unions and representatives of the public authorities, has been managed since 2016 by a state structure: the National Agency for Continuous Professional Development (ANDPC).

With a budget expected to reach 193.9 million euros in 2021, the agency finances the continuing education of 110,000 private doctors, and nine others

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