Introducing a core curriculum for respiratory sleep practitioners

Sharon Mitchell; Anita Simonds; Stefan Andreas; Maria R Bonsignore; Brendan Cooper; Viliam Donic; Walter T McNicholas; Mary Morrell; Paolo Palange; Gianni Prest; Renata Riha; Ha Trang; Winfried Randerath; Chris van der Grinten; Johan Verbraecken; Wilfried de Backer

doi:10.1183/20734735.020414

Introducing a core curriculum for respiratory sleep practitioners

Breathe (Sheff). 2015 Mar;11(1):50-6. doi: 10.1183/20734735.020414.

Authors

Sharon Mitchell¹, Anita Simonds², Stefan Andreas³, Maria R Bonsignore⁴, Brendan Cooper⁵, Viliam Donic⁶, Walter T McNicholas⁷, Mary Morrell⁸, Paolo Palange⁹, Gianni Prest¹⁰, Renata Riha¹¹, Ha Trang¹², Winfried Randerath¹³, Chris van der Grinten¹⁴, Johan Verbraecken¹⁵, Wilfried de Backer¹⁶

Affiliations

¹ European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Academic Department of Sleep and Breathing, Royal Brompton Hospital,London, UK.
³ Lungenfachklinik Immenhausen, Immenhausen, Germany.
⁴ University of Palmero, Palermo, Italy.
⁵ Lung Function and Sleep, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
⁶ Medical Faculty, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Safarik University, Košice, Slovakia.
⁷ Respiratory Sleep Disorders Unit, St. Vincent's University Hospital,Dublin, Ireland.
⁸ Clinical and Academic Unit of Sleep and Breathing, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London.
⁹ Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy.
¹⁰ S.C. Pneumologia, ASL 1, Imperia, Italy.
¹¹ Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
¹² Department of Physiology, University of Paris, Paris, France.
¹³ Bethanien Hospital, Institute of Pneumology, University Witten/Herdecke, Solingen, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
¹⁵ Department of Pulmonary Medicine and Multidisciplinary Sleep Disorders Centre, Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
¹⁶ Respiratory Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.

Abstract

The background and purpose of the HERMES (Harmonising Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) initiative has been discussed at length in previous articles [1-3]. This article aims to provide more detailed and specific insight into the process and methodology of the Sleep HERMES Task Force in developing a core curriculum in respiratory sleep medicine.

Publication types

Review