[Neonatology, the first specific training area of paediatrics in Spain].

In August 2014 the Boletín Oficial del Estado (Spanish Official State Gazette) published Royal Decree 639/2014, of 25 July, regulating core training, respecialisation in core areas and specific training areas (known as ‘‘subspecialities’’ in Europe). Paediatrics retains its own training, separate from other core areas. A specific training area (ACE in Spanish) has been created in Neonatology, access to which is exclusively from the speciality of Paediatrics.1 ACEs are primarily relevant to the health care context, but they involve an indispensable teaching dimension in order for subspecialists, to be properly trained in our case as neonatologists. Teaching and training in Neonatology are well organised in Australia, the United States and Canada. In Europe, the European Board of Pediatrics recognised the Working Group in Neonatology (WGN) of the European Society for Pediatric Research (ESPR) in 1997. In August 2001, the WGN-ESPR became the European Society for Neonatology (ESN), recognised by the Confederation of