About CME

Important Note for readers outside Austria, Germany and Switzerland

At present, certification of the CME-features in the European Journal of Ultrasound is officially recognised by the German and Austrian medical associations and by the Swiss Ultrasound Society. Participants residing in other countries may please address their national medical association or their national specialist societies for recognition of their CME scores. Many european societies approve of the cme efforts made here, i.e. the Danish Society of Diagnostic Ultrasound.

What does Thieme offer in the field of CME?

Currently the journal Ultraschall in der Medizin (European Journal of Ultrasound) includes a single article for continuing medical education (CME) in each issue. Readers can obtain 3 CME points by answering 10 multiple choice questions referring to this article.

Anyone can participate, a subscription to the journal is not needed. Non-subribers may use our partner ClickandBuy^® to purchase individual articles. Each CME-module is availiable for the amount of 10 Euro.

How much time is needed to complete a given CME-module?

Normally the average reader should spend about 45 minutes to read the article and answer the 10 questions. Each module can be printed out by downloading the PDF-version of the article. This file format can be read with the software "Adobe Acrobat" (free download here). You will also be able to browse the HTML-version of the article on the website as long as needed. The CME-test consists of 10 multiple choice questions with possible 5 answers each. It can be taken anytime, as well as aborted and restarted. Once completed the result will be displayed for you at once. The certificate will be presented and can be printed out. If unsuccessful the test can not be repeated.

The deadline for each module is one year after the date of issue.