Guidelines for Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Continuing Medical Education (CME) ensures that the latest knowledge and most advanced treatment techniques are transferred to healthcare workers and associates who will apply them in daily practice. The most common way of knowledge transfer is through various seminars, professional gatherings, and courses, where participants, depending on the level and scope of presented knowledge and the existence of knowledge verification, receive a certain number of points that are recorded and accumulated with previously acquired points. CME consists of educational activities aimed at maintaining, adopting/learning new knowledge, skills, and professional achievements and relationships used by healthcare workers and associates to provide services to patients, the public, or the profession. CME represents a set of knowledge and skills generally recognized and accepted by the professional community within basic medical sciences, preventive and clinical medicine, and healthcare provision. According to the Law on Healthcare of Montenegro ('Official Gazette of CG'), continuing medical education also includes performing healthcare activities during the duration of an infectious disease epidemic, emergency situation, or state of emergency declared in accordance with the law. Articles 1 and 2 of this law, as well as performing healthcare activities from paragraph 2 of this article, are valued in the process of renewing healthcare workers' licenses and for career advancement of healthcare workers and associates.