[Assessment of physicians' competence. The continuous professional development].

Several stakeholders now request some sort of continuous assessment of physician performance. In the assessment of physicians it must be acknowledged that physicians often work in teams and systems, rendering it impossible to attribute quality of practice to a single person. The challenge is to design a concept that is a meaningful contribution to the development of quality of practice. There is a need to rethink the traditional discourse known from undergraduate and postgraduate specialist educations when applying concepts of assessment to the continuous professional development.