Abstract
Continuing medical education is considered to be essential condition for assurance and enhancement of the quality of medical care. This is valid for all EU countries and described in the White Paper on Continuing Medical Education (CME) in Europe.
In order to enable mutual recognition of CME in EU countries, the Czech Medical Chamber has decided to triplicate required credits to fulfil criteria for CME diploma to 150 credits in 5 years. There is a logical question whether the capacity of educational activities offered by Society of General Practice of the CMA JEP will be sufficient for this new challenge.
This paper suggests the possibilities of CME for general practitioners, which in conclusion are sufficient to comply with the increasing demand of credits. On the other hand, the authors also point to the problem of the missing financial support, which would compensate higher expenses linked to obligatory CME in the situation, where industrial support is considered unethical.