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[email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Upgrade skills or quit, PM receives message from Guinea Bissau doctors, nurses told Continuous education to be made mandatory DOHA: Doctors, nurses and and CPD programmes, including claim CME/CPD credit units (CUs) other healthcare practition- online training modules that the designated for each module. This ers in Qatar who don’t upgrade practitioners can choose from. will help healthcare practitioners themselves through continu- Qatar University is one of the not only to cover the gaps in their ous education and training accredited CMC/CPD centres in knowledge and skills but also to be would fail to get their licences Qatar,” Dr Jamal Rashid Al Khanji, trained on how to plan for, grant, renewed. Acting Chief Executive Officer of fulfil and keep sufficient CPD In two years, the Supreme QCHP told this daily yesterday. credit units that will be mandated Council of Health (SCH) will QCHP is responsible for licens- by the year 2016, for their annual be making it mandatory for all ing all healthcare practitioners re-licensing and recertification in healthcare practitioners, work- in the country in the private and Qatar,” said the statement. ing in the public and private sec- public sectors. The department has introduced tors to go through internationally As a pilot project to help the a national CME/CPD accreditation The Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani received a written accepted training programmes practitioners use the online framework with the aim of devel- message from Prime Minister of the Republic of Guinea Bissau Rui Duarte Barros dealing with bilateral relations.