The World Federation for Medical Education, too, has a well-established history of involvement in improving the quality of medical education, marked by the International Collaborative Programme for the Reorientation of Medical Education of 1984, cornerstones of which were the Edinburgh Declaration of 1988 and the recommendations of the World Summit on Medical Education, Edinburgh, in 1993. The WFME Global Standards Programme in Medical Education for Better Health Care was launched in 1997; it covers basic (undergraduate) medical education, postgraduate medical education and continuing professional development (CPD) of physicians. Implementation of the programme is based on information, translation of standards and.
