The Translational research in viral hepatitis: Addressing the gaps for cure, Athens, Greece, 23/01/2020-25/01/2020 has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME^®) with 15 European CME credits (ECMEC^®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.

Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME^® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found on this link.

Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME^® for ECMEC^®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

EACCME^® credits

Each participant can only receive the number of credits he/she is entitled to according to his/her actual participation at the event once he/she has completed the feedback form. Cf. criteria 9 and 23 of UEMS 2016.20.

In order to help you issue individual certificates to each participants, please find below the breakdown of ECMEC^®s per day:

23.01.2020 – 4.00
24.01.2020 – 8.00
25.01.2020 – 3.00

The EACCME^® awards ECMEC^®s on the basis of 1 ECMEC^® for one hour of CME with a maximum of 8 ECMEC^®s per day. Cf. Chapter X of UEMS 2016.20.

The Viral Hepatitis Conference is supported by an unrestricted education grant from Abbvie. Abbvie has had no input into the contents of the Viral Hepatitis Conference.