TY - JOUR T1 - Paediatric HERMES: European accreditation of training centres in paediatric respiratory medicine JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 105 LP - 110 DO - 10.1183/20734735.003716 VL - 12 IS - 2 AU - Sandy Sutter AU - Sharon Mitchell AU - Ernst Eber AU - Gunilla Hedlin AU - Fabio Midulla AU - Alexandra Niculescu AU - Jimmy Y. Paton AU - Robert Ross Russell AU - Monika Gappa Y1 - 2016/06/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/12/2/105.abstract N2 - Some form of medical training accreditation is used in over 110 countries worldwide [1]. Although accreditation criteria and processes vary considerably depending on regional medical training structures and national regulations, various studies suggest that the accreditation of training programmes has a positive impact on trainees’ performance in assessments [2, 3]. Thus, accreditation is an important tool for promoting high-quality training and medical care.HERMES: European accreditation of training centres in paediatric respiratory medicine http://ow.ly/ZBmUgWe wish to thank Griet Peeraer and Erik Driessen (University of Maastricht, Maastricht, Germany) for their valuable comments on the section pertinent to the content of educational experience. We also wish to thank the members of the Accreditation Committee (G. Rohde, D. Stoz, J. Verbraecken, O. Karg and S. Skoczynski) for taking on board the suggestions from the paediatric working group and for their support in developing the paediatric accreditation criteria document. The following experts wrote the original accreditation criteria document for adult respiratory medicine, which was used as a basis to structure the paediatric accreditation document: R. Loddenkemper, T. Séverin, S. Mitchell, A. ­Belevskiy, A. Chuchalin, S. de Hosson, G. Di Maria, S. Hartl, I. ­Horvath, C. Leroyer, J-L. Noel, B. Nybo, G. Phillips, R. Stevenson, M. Zach and P. Palange. ER -