HOW TO BASE CONTINUING MEDICAL-EDUCATION (CME) ON EVIDENCE AND MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING

In order to play its part fully, CME in France must be radically refor med, less in its methods than in its philosophy; it is important to gr ound CME on objective evaluation, evidence:based medicine and on medic al decision making. These notions are often neglected, or even unrecog nized, especially in medical education. Asset of actual situation are the recent decision of CME legal obligation, which will require valida tion of quality criterion in CME, and large network of associations an d 'leader-practioners', that would let to most practicing physicians' participation.