TY - JOUR T1 - Introducing a core curriculum for respiratory sleep practitioners JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 50 LP - 56 DO - 10.1183/20734735.020414 VL - 11 IS - 1 AU - Sharon Mitchell AU - Anita Simonds AU - Stefan Andreas AU - Maria R. Bonsignore AU - Brendan Cooper AU - Viliam Donic AU - Walter T. McNicholas AU - Mary Morrell AU - Paolo Palange AU - Gianni Prest AU - Renata Riha AU - Ha Trang AU - Winfried Randerath AU - Chris van der Grinten AU - Johan Verbraecken AU - Wilfried de Backer Y1 - 2015/03/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/11/1/50.abstract N2 - The background and purpose of the HERMES (Harmonising Education in Respiratory Medicine for European Specialists) initiative has been discussed at length in previous articles [1–3]. This article aims to provide more detailed and specific insight into the process and methodology of the Sleep HERMES Task Force in developing a core curriculum in respiratory sleep medicine.The Sleep HERMES Task Force would like to thank Griet Peeraer (University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium) for her valued recommendations on how to improve the curriculum design and planning. Further acknowledgement must also go to the Education Council directors who are actively involved in overseeing all HERMES projects, Ernst Eber (Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria), HERMES director and Konrad Bloch (University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Austria), assessments director. Finally a word of thanks to the ERS Education Council Chair Gernot Rohde (Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands) whose support for HERMES and specifically the Sleep HERMES Task force has ensured that this important milestone has been reached. ER -