Kareskoski Maria
Department of Production Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Veterinary Continuing Education in Europe (VetCEE), Brussels, Belgium.
Front Vet Sci. 2023 Jul 27;10:1181961. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2023.1181961. eCollection 2023.
With the increased supply and demand of veterinary continuing education (CE) and the growing number of CE providers, a clear need has arisen for a multinational accreditation system for veterinary CE. The objective of this document is to describe the current state of veterinary CE accreditation and the development of an accreditation system for veterinary CE, and discuss accreditation criteria and their pedagogical and practical significance. The hypothesis is that a profile of essential, pedagogically grounded, accreditation criteria can be established and utilized effectively in quality assessment. Accreditation criteria for veterinary CE can be created based on four selection principles: educational minimum requirements, coherence, efficacy, and assessability. The selected educational quality criteria are related to needs assessment, correlation of target audience and level of instruction, definition of scope, workload, and number of credits, organizer and instructor qualifications, constructive alignment, assessment of learning, learner engagement, and scientific quality of CE content. The created accreditation criteria and protocols should be regularly re-evaluated and modified in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders. The desired outcome of CE, including behavior change and improvement of practice and ultimately human and animal health, remains challenging to predict based on course descriptions by the providers, and further research is needed.
随着兽医继续教育（CE）供需的增加以及CE提供者数量的不断增长，对兽医CE的跨国认证体系产生了明确需求。本文档的目的是描述兽医CE认证的现状以及兽医CE认证体系的发展，并讨论认证标准及其教学和实际意义。假设是可以建立基于教学基础的基本认证标准概况并有效地用于质量评估。兽医CE的认证标准可以基于四个选择原则来制定：教育最低要求、连贯性、有效性和可评估性。选定的教育质量标准涉及需求评估、目标受众与教学水平的相关性、范围定义、工作量和学分数量、组织者和教师资质、建设性匹配、学习评估、学习者参与度以及CE内容的科学质量。所制定的认证标准和协议应与相关利益攸关方密切合作进行定期重新评估和修订。基于提供者的课程描述来预测CE的预期结果，包括行为改变、实践改善以及最终的人类和动物健康，仍然具有挑战性，需要进一步研究。
