Neurology residency training in Europe: an Italian perspective

Job variation in Australian advanced training in neurology

“…The specialist training programme for Neurology in Britain 5 and the residency programme in the USA 6 are currently of 4 years’ duration. Heterogeneity of training positions within countries has occasionally been commented on in various parts of the world, 3,7,8 but we are only aware of one previous audit of neurology training programmes in the published work 9 . This study surveyed various aspects of neurological training posts in Italy: ascertainment was incomplete, but the authors were able to show considerable variation between jobs among those who replied.…”

Neurology residency training in Europe - the current situation

“…Despite many efforts of political, economical and social integration, EU member countries still have different educational standards. Differences in national neurology curricula were reported previously [2,3]. Pontes [4] demonstrated in 2001 extensive divergence of national residency training in neurology.…”

Postgraduate medical training and migration in Europe: a survey of financial and labour conditions

“…It was not possible to have a more in depth overview of the curricula of the schools in different countries. On this point, different surveys (Clark et al 2002;Bonifati et al 2003;Capobianco et al 2003;Facheris et al 2005;Corea et al 2006) have shown strengths and weaknesses in different areas; for example, neurology trainees in Portugal and Estonia spend more time in rehabilitation than anywhere else. Neurological trainees in Italy have no systematic psychiatry training, whereas Germans spend 1 year in psychiatric services.…”