EU EBM Unity Project

Birmingham Women's Hospital, in affiliation with the University of Birmingham, have successfully been granted funding from the Leonardo da Vinci programme to run a pilot European project. Leonardo da Vinci is a European Community programme which supports national training strategies through funding a range of trans-national partnership projects aimed at improving quality, fostering innovation and promoting the European  dimension in vocational training.

The EU EBM Unity project aims to develop a European Qualification in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) that will improve the relevance and quality of medical training in Europe, and enable doctors to easily integrate into the healthcare systems of other member states. It will ultimately improve the care of European patients and the mobility and effectiveness of doctors throughout Europe.

There are ten partners involved in the project:

• Birmingham Women's Hospital / University of Birmingham
• J & AB Associates - UK
• Agency for Quality in Medicine - Germany
• Austrian Association for Quality in Health Care - Austria
• Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Italy
• CASPin - UK
• CASPolska - Poland
• AMC Amsterdam - Netherlands
• CASPe - Spain
• TUDOR - Hungary

The EU EBM Unity project is being developed in partnership with hospitals, universities and other academic institutions, doctors, trade unions and bodies at European level in eight different member states.

For further information, please contact Julie Hadley, Project Director. The EU EBM Unity web site can be visited here.

This page was last modified on Fri May 07 2010