title: Neurology residency training in Europe: an Italian perspective.
abstract: Education is the most important part of medical-science training. Assessment of training programmes and examination of trainees' skills are necessary to guarantee that trainees develop competence. Training programmes vary between and within countries. The impending integration of the medical-job market among European countries highlights the need for people training to be specialists to achieve a certain standard. Here, we review the neurological training programmes in Europe, principally those in Italy, and discuss the standardisation of the training of residents in Italy and the quality control of current residency training, or its absence, in Europe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience and Biomedical Technologies, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Donizetti 106, 20052 Monza, Italy. maurizio.facheris@unimib.it
authors.forename: Maurizio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Facheris
authors.forename: Michelangelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mancuso
authors.forename: Tomaso
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Scaravilli
authors.forename: Domenico Marco
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Bonifati
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000592:standards*; D007558:Italy; D009462:Neurology / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States