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Physician Charter for Professionalism

At its meeting in January 2003 in New Delhi, the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) approved a document "Medical Professionalism in the New Millennium: A Physician Charter" (also available as a PDF file).

Developed by various internal medicine organizations, the Charter is part of an initiative to reaffirm the medical profession's civic commitment.

Council approves continuing medical education requirements

Also in January 2003, the Council adopted recommended Requirements for Continuing Medical Education (CME).

The requirements, proposed by the ICO Advisory Committee, cover defining the objectives of courses, evaluation, relationships with industry and conflicts of interest. They reaffirm and expand on requirements adopted by the ICO in Amsterdam in June 1998.

The Council hopes that the requirements will be useful to ophthalmological societies developing or evaluating continuing education programs for their members.

Other international standards?

If you are aware of other international standards or guidelines for vision, eye care and ophthalmology that it would be appropriate to highlight on the ICO Eye Site, please let us know at standards@icoph.org.

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Also see: ICO Standards for Measurement of Vision Loss