Educational initiatives and training for paediatric rheumatology in Europe

Helen E Foster,E.M.D Smith,Lovro Lamot,Tadej Avcin,Nico Wulffraat,Yosef Uziel,Jelena Vojinovic,Carine Wouters,Alberto Martini,Tamas Constantin,Pavla Dolezalova

doi:10.1186/s12969-018-0289-y

Abstract

The Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) has over many years, developed a portfolio of educational activities to address increasing educational needs of workforce and support young clinicians to acquire skills to develop new knowledge and deliver clinical care in the future. These educational activities aim to facilitate growth of paediatric rheumatology and ultimately improve the clinical care for children and families. This article describes the current portfolio of PReS educational activities and their relevance to the international paediatric rheumatology community.

Highlights

The Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) has an overarching aim to promote paediatric rheumatology as a sub-specialty across Europe and further afield through the expanding international membership
This document describes PReS conferences, courses, online resources programmes that are overseen by the PReS Education and Training Committee (ETC) and we describe their context for the international paediatric rheumatology community
The emergence of Basic and Advanced courses, specialist courses, online resources and the EMErging RheumatoloGists and rEsearchers (EMERGE) fellowship programme, supplement the annual scientific meeting of PReS and young investigators meeting (YIM) as a means to facilitate advances in knowledge being implemented into high quality evidence-based clinical care

Summary

Introduction

The Paediatric Rheumatology European Society (PReS) has an overarching aim to promote paediatric rheumatology as a sub-specialty across Europe and further afield through the expanding international membership. PReS aims to improve the lives of children with rheumatic diseases through collaborative networking to raise awareness, facilitate high quality research to create new knowledge, support education and training, promote advocacy and ‘best care ’ based on evidence, consensus and active consumer engagement.

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