{"id":2588,"date":"2025-08-07T14:46:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T14:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theisn.org\/wcn\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=2588"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:36:08","slug":"accreditation-and-credits","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.theisn.org\/wcn\/faq\/accreditation-and-credits\/","title":{"rendered":"Accreditation and credits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ISN World Congress of Nephrology, Yokohama, Japan 28\/03\/2026 \u2013 31\/03\/2026<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME\u00ae) with\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">20.5<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0European CME credits (ECMEC\u00aes). Each<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he\/she\u00a0actually spent\u00a0in the educational activity.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Each participant can only receive the number of credits he\/she is entitled to according to his\/her actual participation at the event once he\/she has completed the feedback form. Cf. criteria 22 of UEMS 2023.07.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theisn.org\/wcn\/about\/accreditation-credits\/\">More information here.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Through an agreement between the Union Europ\u00e9enne des M\u00e9decins Sp\u00e9cialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME\u00ae credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits\u2122. Information on converting EACCME\u00ae credit to AMA credit can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/edhub.ama-assn.org\/pages\/applications%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ama-assn.org\/education\/earn-credit-participation-international-activities<\/a>. Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME\u00ae for EACCME\u00ae\u2019s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2588","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq_cat-practicalities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Accreditation and credits - World Congress of Nephrology 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theisn.org\/wcn\/faq\/accreditation-and-credits\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Accreditation and credits - World Congress of Nephrology 2026\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The\u00a0ISN World Congress of Nephrology, Yokohama, Japan 28\/03\/2026 \u2013 31\/03\/2026, has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME\u00ae) with\u00a020.5\u00a0European CME credits (ECMEC\u00aes). 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