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The European Union of Medical Specialties core training curriculum in infectious diseases: overview of national systems and distribution of specialists

The European Union of Medical Specialities (UEMS) Section of Infectious Diseases agreed on an infectious disease training programme in 1999, which was updated in 2002. Although the provision of infection services throughout Europe is not uniform, with variation in the roles of infectious disease phy...

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Autor principal: McKendrick, M.W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128232/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15760440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01087.x
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description The European Union of Medical Specialities (UEMS) Section of Infectious Diseases agreed on an infectious disease training programme in 1999, which was updated in 2002. Although the provision of infection services throughout Europe is not uniform, with variation in the roles of infectious disease physicians and microbiologists, there are, nonetheles, physicians with a predominant responsibility for clinical infectious diseases (and tropical medicine) in most countries. However, infectious diseases is formally recognised as a specific discipline by most, but not yet all, European countries. There has been consensus from national representatives to the UEMS on the content of the published curriculum. There are clear areas of overlap in training between different infection disciplines, and exploration of possible areas for closer liaison and collaboration between them has been initiated. The increased movement of medical staff within Europe will place greater demands on those responsible for training, monitoring and quality assurance. The Board and Section of Infectious Diseases have established core training programmes with a generic logbook to assist those countries without a written curriculum or record book and facilitate the development of common standards of training. The duration of training varies across Europe; 4 years is the UEMS standard, or longer if the training is combined with general internal medicine. The numbers of infection specialists (infectious diseases and microbiology) per million population show considerable variation. The UEMS Sections have recognised the importance of working closely with European specialist societies involved with training. The Section for Infectious Diseases has, in partnership with the ESCMID, established a Board for the accreditation of continuing medical education/continuing professional development.
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spelling pubmed-71282322020-04-08 The European Union of Medical Specialties core training curriculum in infectious diseases: overview of national systems and distribution of specialists McKendrick, M.W. Clin Microbiol Infect Original Articles The European Union of Medical Specialities (UEMS) Section of Infectious Diseases agreed on an infectious disease training programme in 1999, which was updated in 2002. Although the provision of infection services throughout Europe is not uniform, with variation in the roles of infectious disease physicians and microbiologists, there are, nonetheles, physicians with a predominant responsibility for clinical infectious diseases (and tropical medicine) in most countries. However, infectious diseases is formally recognised as a specific discipline by most, but not yet all, European countries. There has been consensus from national representatives to the UEMS on the content of the published curriculum. There are clear areas of overlap in training between different infection disciplines, and exploration of possible areas for closer liaison and collaboration between them has been initiated. The increased movement of medical staff within Europe will place greater demands on those responsible for training, monitoring and quality assurance. The Board and Section of Infectious Diseases have established core training programmes with a generic logbook to assist those countries without a written curriculum or record book and facilitate the development of common standards of training. The duration of training varies across Europe; 4 years is the UEMS standard, or longer if the training is combined with general internal medicine. The numbers of infection specialists (infectious diseases and microbiology) per million population show considerable variation. The UEMS Sections have recognised the importance of working closely with European specialist societies involved with training. The Section for Infectious Diseases has, in partnership with the ESCMID, established a Board for the accreditation of continuing medical education/continuing professional development. European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2005 2015-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7128232/ /pubmed/15760440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-0691.2005.01087.x Text en Copyright © 2005 European Society of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_fullStr The European Union of Medical Specialties core training curriculum in infectious diseases: overview of national systems and distribution of specialists
title_full_unstemmed The European Union of Medical Specialties core training curriculum in infectious diseases: overview of national systems and distribution of specialists
title_short The European Union of Medical Specialties core training curriculum in infectious diseases: overview of national systems and distribution of specialists
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128232/
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