Examination of continuing education regulations

With the passage of the law on Continuing Medical Education, the education of those covered by this law became official. Increasing the level of knowledge and professional skills of medical staff and improving the conditions of service provision is the most important goal of such education. Therefore, continuing education in the medical community today is considered a fundamental principle, which is the mission of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. It should be noted, however, that the positive and negative effects of any law become apparent only after its implementation. Obviously, the positive consequences must be strengthened while the negative ones have to be eliminated or corrected. Otherwise, the law will be rendered ineffective. In this study, Persian and English articles were searched and extracted from Google Scholar, SID, and Magiran websites using the keywords “continuing education rules and regulations”. Out of the 48 articles found, 27 relevant articles were included in the study. Regardless of the benefits of continuing education regulations, there are a number of problems and challenges in these regulations including: lack of allocation of promotional points to educational-research activities, restrictions on receiving promotional points from virtual programs, restrictions on issuing final certificates, lack of adequate training in some disciplines, and allocating equal promotional points to all lecturers. All of these need to be dealt with and corrected.