Education and Training Committee

The ESPE Education and Training Committee's objective is to consolidate and to promote education and training within ESPE. Target groups are paediatricians training to become paediatric endocrinologists and paediatric endocrinologists requiring continuing education.

Summer School and Winter School

The Summer School and Winter School have been in existence for many years and are highly successful and highly appreciated by the membership.

ESPE Science School

A new interlinked initiative - ESPE Science School (ESS) will run alongside the NICHe conferences. The entire event will run for 5 days, to include the 3-day NICHe conference with a day before and a day after that will be devoted to ESS. Thus ESS students will also take part in the top science event NICHe. In a short while we will advertise a call for fellows and young paediatric endocrinologists to apply for participation in ESS 2010. NICHe will also announce a call for ESPE members who are interested in our 2010 signal transduction topic.

Medical training, standards and qualifications

Medical training, standards and qualifications in EU member states and other participating countries should be harmonized in accordance with an ESPE (European) standard, using a syllabus for training schools, via accreditation for training centres and criteria for trainers . In accordance with guidelines of the Confederation of European Specialists in Paediatrics (CESP) which is the paediatric section of the Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS), a syllabus has been constructed and an initiation has been made to recognize training centres.

Education in Developing Countries

Following a budgetary surplus of the ESPE 2004 Annual Meeting in Basel, the ESPE Council decided in January 2005 to form a charitable account for projects to support paediatric endocrinology in developing countries, initially focusing on Africa.

Seminar in Developmental Endocrinology

The fourth advanced seminar in developmental endocrinology will focus on the epiphyseal growth plate and be held in Stockholm during the spring 2010. More information will follow shortly.