Continuous Embryology Education

ESHRE certified embryologists are now offered to renew their certificate through the new CEEC (Continuous Embryology Education Credit) system.

CEEC system is intended to encourage embryologists to collect education credits, and thereby renew their embryologist certificate. This is a feature for ESHRE members only, and the credits needed for certification renewal should be obtained in three-year blocks. Specifically, senior clinical embryologists will need ten credits and clinical embryologists six credits, obtained over a three-year period, in order to apply for renewal of their certificate.

It is important to note that this is a voluntary activity, and like academic certificates, there will never be loss of validity from a previously obtained ESHRE clinical embryology certification.

Credits must relate to the field of embryology and assisted conception.

Attendance at scientific meetings, publications, contributions to meetings and courses will all be taken into consideration for the award of credits. The specific activities and corresponding credits are:

Attendance to meetings

Publication of a paper (international peer review, ISI listed)(*)

Publication of a paper (national peer review)

Book (with ISBN)

Contribution to ESHRE scientific meetings/courses

Contribution to other society scientific meetings/courses

Academic activities

Official documents indicating eligibility for credits must be uploaded here: (link to be provided shortly). After having collected six or ten credits, no more documents can be uploaded for that three-year period. For example, a certified embryologist from 2008 can upload documents obtained after 1st January 2009 until 31st December 2011. We expect the certified senior embryologists of 2008 to start uploading their documents by March 2012 until end of May 2012. The other certified embryologists will be notified in due time when they can start uploading their documents.
 

If enough credits cannot be assembled in those three years, then the application can be deferred for 1 year on a rolling three year basis. For example: If a 2008 certified embryologist doesn’t have enough credits collected during the years 2009/2010/2011 he can use the 2010/2011/2012 period.

An updated list including a column showing the renewal will be posted on the website in September 2012.

(*) All non-ISI listed articles in International Journals can be considered under the item "articles in National Journals”