The IFO, as a Healthcare Company, has been identified by AGENAS (National Agency) as provider no. 1270 for Continuing Medical Education (CME) both for residential methodologies (RES), since June 2018, for field training methodologies (FSC) and now for ADL (at distance learning) or e-learning. The I.F.O. has an Education Area “Raffaele Bastianelli”, which houses 3 classrooms, respectively of 199, 90, 50 seats and the Training Service is made up of 1 manager and 4 collaborators, two with a health-care profile, two with an administrative profile.

The Budget made available to the Training Service was € 380,000, to be used for internal and external training events, internships and for the management of the activities supporting training events in the Education Area “Raffaele Bastianelli”.

In 2020, the Company Training Plan (PFA) was approved with resolution no. training events, to which were added the events gradually created as business needs. Cause the SARS-Cov-2 pandemia, the training activities were suspended and many courses were transformed in video-call briefings.

In 2020 has been concluded no. 20 CME accredited events, of which 18 scheduled with a single edition. These events took place at the “Raffaele Bastianelli” Education Area, at the Patient’s Library computer room and other Meeting Rooms for small groups. 

Many educational activities has been performed without CME credits, using on site and bed side teaching:

• Safety behaviors in care, diagnosis and treatments during COVID-19 pandemia;
• Prevention of COVID-19 disease and use of PPE;
• Safety and Hygiene of hands;

and using online tutorials:

• How to do a nasal swab;
• How to dress and undress PPE.

The Training Service of IFO managed, cooperating with the Scientific Direction, internship and fellowship for 22 students of 5 Universities.