FIMA ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR CERTIFICATION OF CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION  (FIMA-ACCCME)

In the quest for providing excellent care to patients, healthcare providers must keep abreast of the latest developments in their respective areas of specialties or interest to maintain and improve their knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards medicine. Although there are many local, national, and international meetings, conventions, and publications catering to these needs in general, Muslim medics have speical requirements. These include managing patients and instructing non-Muslim care providers about caring for Muslim patients.

In fact it is with this very end in view that IMAs have been formed.

FIMA-ACCCME has been setup to help enrich, organize, and standardize continuing medical eduction programers of various IMA's and hospitals in essence to ensure that the conventions and scientific meetings of these associations meet a minimum standard as forums for high quality education.

ACCCME monitors education and training activities including content and course design, and issues certificates of credits to participants.

This project was develped by Prof. Sheik N. Hassan and Prof. Muhammed A.A. KHan, of IMANA and was approved by FIMA Executive Committe in December 2001.

Responsibilities:

1. To Provide instructions on the requirements and procedures for obtaining CME certificate from FIMA to national IMA's seeking such credits for their members.
2. TO modify the procedures as necessary for issuing CME certificates.
3. To submit an annual report to FIMA.
4. To issue CME certificates to participants of IMA conventions.
5. To submit all original documents to the secretary of FIMA and
6. To maintain the documents in a secured location for at least 10 years.