H-Net adopts the "Brussels Declaration"
On March 11, 2011, H-Net met in Brussels. H-Net is the European Network for Harmonisation of Training in Haematology and is funded by a Leonardo da Vinci Grant from the European Commission, DG Education and Culture. The meeting was attended by most of its partnership which includes the European Hematology Association (EHA), the European School of Haematology (ESH), 24 national societies for Haematology in Europe, and the universities of Liverpool and Uppsala.
On the occasion of the meeting, there was unanimous support for the
“Brussels Declaration on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications” that follows:
The mobility of Haematology trainees is of the utmost importance. Mobility stimulates the exchange of knowledge and experience in a profession that has, in terms of research, literature and continuing education, already developed a decidedly international orientation. Moreover, the mobility of trainees from Member States that are challenged in their educational resources allows for increasing competence to the level of best practices in Europe.
H-Net supports the Haematology Curriculum which expresses the minimum recommended levels of competence that a Haematology trainee should attain on a consensual description of the scope of the specialty of Haematology. The approach is decidedly bottom-up: Member States are free to opt in on (parts of) the curriculum given national circumstances that are disease specific (e.g. prevalence of certain diseases) and reflect professional traditions (e.g. in Austria or Germany the specialty of haemato-oncology exists).
H-Net believes it can support the European Union with its aim to introduce a “28th regime” curriculum and suggests that it be based, where the discipline of Haematology is concerned, on the Haematology Curriculum as developed by EHA with the support of 31 national societies of Haematology.
Furthermore, given the scope of the discipline of Haematology as described in the Haematology Curriculum, H-Net believes it can support the European Union by recommending the minimum training requirement for Haematology be five years or three years when previous training encompassed the equivalent of at least two years in internal medicine.
So agree:
Ulrich Jäger - European Hematology Association
Eva Hellstöm-Lindberg - European Hematology Association, Swedish Society for Hematology
Paolo Rebulla - European Hematology Association
Cheng Hock Toh - European Hematology Association
Andreas Petzer - Austrian Society of Hematology and Oncology
Dominique Bron - Belgian Haematological Society
Margarita Guenova - Bulgarian Society of Clinical and Transfusion Haematology
Jaroslav Cermák - Czech Haematology Society
Ole Weis Bjerrum - Danish Society of Hematology
Gert Ossenkoppele - Dutch Society of Haematology
Edward Laane - Estonian Society of Hematology
Nancy Hamilton - European School of Haematology
Charis Matsouka - Hellenic Society of Hematology
Szabolcs Modok - Hungarian Society of Hematology and Transfusiology
Francesco Buccisano - Italian Society of Hematology
Antonio Parreira - Portuguese Society of Hematology
Krzysztof Lewandowski - Polish Society of Hematology and Transfusion Medicine
Tomas Lipšic - Slovak Society of Hematology and Transfusiology of Slovak Medical Association
Mikuláš Hrubiško - Slovak Society of Hematology and Transfusiology of Slovak Medical Association
Jose Tomas Navarro Ferrando - Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy
Maria Liljeholm - Swedish Society of Haematology
Pierre Cornu - Swiss Society of Hematology
Hamdi Akan - Turkish Society of Hematology
Janet Strivens - University of Liverpool
Ambjörn Naeve - Uppsala University
