European curriculum recommendations for training in adult respiratory medicine: crossing boundaries with HERMES.

In 2005, in order to support these ambitious objectives, the ERS School established the HERMES initiative (Harmonisation of Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists). The aim of the first project under this initiative was to improve the harmonisation of training in adult respiratory medicine across Europe. This project was led by a Task Force of 13 international experts. The first phase of the project, undertaken during 2005 and 2006, was to obtain a Europe-wide consensus to develop a European core syllabus for training in adult respiratory medicine. The syllabus was produced and published in 2006 by the HERMES Task Force [1, 2].