Following on from the other successful HERMES projects, the Respiratory Critical Care educational task force was officially launched in September 2009.  The projects overall aim is to harmonise training in Critical Care Respiratory Medicine (CCRM) throughout Europe. The key tasks that the taskforce have completed to date are to identify relevant European Critical Care experts, otherwise referred to as the ‘National Respondents'. Further developments on the first project phase are detailed below.

Task Force Participants

• CHAIRS
  Dr Theodoros Vassilakopoulos, Greece
  Prof. Antonio Artigas, Spain

• TASKFORCE MEMBERS
  Prof. Laurent Brochard, France
  Dr Dominic Dellweg, Germany
  Dr. Antonio Esquinas, Spain
  Dr Miguel Ferrer, Spain
  Dr Jens Geiseler, Germany
  Prof. Anders Larsson, Sweden
  Dr Stefano Nava, Italy
  Dr Paolo Navalesi, Italy
  Dr Stylianos Orfanos, Greece
  Prof. Paolo Palange, Italy
  Dr Paolo Pelosi, Italy
  Prof. Bernd Schoenhofer, Germany
  Dr Anita Simonds, UK

• NATIONAL RESPONDENTS
  One to three national respondents have been selected from European countries.  The respondents are experts in the field of education, training and accreditation matters.  

Project PHASE 1: Development of a consensus based European Core syllabus

After the Task Force drafted an initial syllabus, this draft formed the basis of the first Delphi survey round forward to a number of experts in respiratory Critical Care medicine.  

The analysis report of this survey higlights key findings and assists in the formulation of the 2nd Delphi Round. Results of Delphi 1