The growing importance of continuing medical education in nuclear medicine: the role of the European School of Nuclear Medicine

Abstract

The importance of continuing medical education (CME) in nuclear medicine is increasing because credit hours will be mandatory in the future. In addition to the scientific presentations at the annual congresses, the current knowledge on the most important topics in nuclear medicine should be offered to the nuclear medicine community. In 2000, the “new” European School of Nuclear Medicine (ESNM) was reorganised with the aim of bringing all the educational activities of the EANM under one umbrella. In addition to the “core members” of the ESNM (Lind, Mansi, Pons, Szilvasi; e-mail addresses displayed), the chairpersons of the most important task groups of the EANM are also members of the School. The educational activities of the ESNM can be divided into three categories: 1. Organisation of CME at the annual congress of the EANM 2. Organisation of Central and Eastern European seminars in nuclear medicine 3. Further development of the PET Learning Centre