Update of the ERS international Adult Respiratory Medicine syllabus for postgraduate training

Tabin, Nathalie; Mitchell, Sharon; O’Connell, Elaine; Stolz, Daiana; Rohde, Gernot

Probably the greatest limitation of this project is the inability of an international task force to provide a full training programme for local institutions which will consider the essential components of knowledge, skills and attitudes required for practice. The scope of a programme developed and delivered through the international community begins and ends at the publication of internationally agreed upon standards with some supporting initiatives which may assess knowledge with limited assessment of skills. It must be noted that this project was never intended to replace local, regional or national training for respiratory specialists, but rather to act as an aid to support and reference current training, assessment and actualisation programmes.