Highlights the necessary transition from continuing medical education to continuous professional development for anaesthetists to adapt to technical, ethical, and economic changes.
Supports transition to continuous professional development in anaesthesia; hypothesis-generating for adapting to technical and economic healthcare shifts.
Anaesthesia, as well as the whole of medicine, is involved in a revolution not only technical but also economic, because of the need for cost-containment in healthcare delivery. Continuing medical education, primarily devoted to updating knowledge and skills, is moving rapidly towards continuous professional development. A permanent evolution of practitioners is mandatory in order that they are able to adapt their practice to technical, ethical and economic changes, integrated in a team-working and multidisciplinary approach to patient care.
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