Training Centres/Tutors

Training centres and units are defined by the kind and number of modules they teach and by the available tutors and teachers. These are defined by their qualifications. Several institutions, located in close proximity, might combine into one training center. In such case, one qualified individual must be designated as training center director who represents this center to the outside and carries the entire responsibility for the offered programme.

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Centres / Units

Full training centre
Full training centres are highly specialized tertiary care centres for PRM that can offer a complete training. They are defined by the following features:

• availability of all obligatory modules,
• availability of four or more desirable modules,
• two (or more) accredited tutors.
  

Partial training centre
Partial training centres are partially specialized centres, which, however, cannot offer a complete training. They are defined by the following features:

• availability of five or more obligatory modules,
• one (or more) accredited tutor
  

Training unit
Training units are institutions that are specialized in one or a few particular aspects of PRM. They are defined by the following features:

• availability of one to four modules (obligatory or desirable),
• a teacher competent in these modules
  

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Accreditations

For each country of the EU, a list of centres, units, training directors, tutors and teachers is compiled and updated in regular intervals. Each centre and unit is defined by the available modules and the tutor(s) or teacher(s) available.

Accreditation is given by the European Board of Paediatrics upon recommendation of the Long Range Planning Committee of the ERS Paediatric Assembly. In any specific case, the Long Range Planning Committee bases this recommendation on information received from the national PRM training representative (a member of the Committee on Paediatric Respiratory Training in Europe). A system of centre visits should be institutionalised in the future. Ideally, each accreditation given by the European Board of Paediatrics should then be based on a report from such a centre visit.