Marburger Bund is the largest doctors’ union in Europe representing about 125,000 salaried doctors in Germany and fights for fair working conditions, appropriate salaries, quality in training, and improvements in the work-life balance. Following a decision of 127
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Marburger Bund General Assembly 2015, criteria should be developed to be applied by participants to assess independence in planning and delivery of individual CME activities. This position paper describes the role of
methodological and medical competence
generation and use of data (evidence)
independent sources of information
independence of faculty in CME
language in medical education
conduct of independent CME, and
independence of (passive) physician participants in CME
Measures are defined by which independence in CME may be achieved and how this may change the process of CME delivery.