There are considerable variations among countries in Europe and beyond as regards the provision of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. A joint study conducted by EBCOG and ESCRH revealed a notable absence of educational programs and instruction materials tailored specifically for doctors and allied health care professionals in several countries. This deficiency clearly impedes in capacity building and implementation of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services based on respect of sexual and reproductive rights and promotion of sexual health for all. Besides mother and childcare, these must include family planning, safe abortion, STI prevention, prevention of and care for victims of sexual violence.
There is a special focus on the young people whose sexual and reproductive health is of utmost importance to the society as a whole.
The EBCOG/ESCRH Joint Committee for Training and Exams in Sexual and Reproductive Health has created diploma and fellowship curricula and exams for all health care professionals involved in sexual and reproductive health care. A detail program for different healthcare professionals with different objectives and with different needs that will be a strong contribution towards the improvement of basic and advance care on sexual and reproductive health.
Diploma Exam
Who can apply
Health professionals working in the field of reproductive health care: nurses, midwives, general practitioners, family doctors, community gynecologists, residents of ObGyn and General and Family Medicine. All eligibility criteria can be found here: https://ebcog.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/DiplomaEligibility062024FINAL.pdf
Deadline date for application: 8th of June 2025 . Apply here: https://registration.ortrac.com/application/form/edsrh-mars-2025
Examination Date: 21st of June 2025
Online exam consisting of 1 paper. The exam will be held once a year unless decided otherwise. The exam will be remotely monitored and invigilated.
Paper 1 – Basic Knowledge (40 Questions) & Applied knowledge (40 Questions)
- Total 3 hours with no Break.
- The exam consists of Multiple choice questions (MCQs – True of False).
- As it is an online exam there will be no venue and can be taken from home.
- The pass mark will be calculated from the average score of the candidates by subtracting 0.5 SD.
Cost:
- 400.00 Euro for Doctors
- 300.00 Euro for Residents, Midwives, Pharmacists
Preparation for the Diploma exam:
A Pre-Exam Course: more information to come on future courses.
The Course shall enable participants to:
- Understand the physiology of reproduction and how contraceptive methods impact these processes
- Learn about the basics of Sexual Health Care
- Learn about the 4 basic characteristics of contraceptive methods: Efficacy, Benefits, Tolerability and Health risks
- Learn about Hormonal Contraceptives
- Learn about Non-Hormonal Contraceptives
- Learn about the elements of women centered contraceptive counselling and care
- Learn about individualized counselling for healthy women, women in different life phases women with special health conditions
- Learn about individualized counseling groups with special needs
- Learn about basics of abortion care, post abortion contraception
- Learn about STI prevention, screening and care
Other sources of information:
- Handbook of Contraception and Sexual and Reproductive Health (Eds J. Bitzer, T Mahmood),
- TTT Courses of ESCRH: https://escrh.eu/education/training-improvement-programme/
- WHO handbook on contraception
Second level: Fellowship Curriculum and Exam
- Date: to be determined, 2025
- The Fellowship Curriculum and Exam will be based on advanced knowledge and skills.
- The exam will take 1,5 days
- It will cover advanced contraception including abortion care, Preventive medicine SRH, STIs, Sexual Health examined with MCQs, SBAs, and EMQs
- Skills examination will be based on OSCEs (3 stations counselling, 1 station insertion IUD, Implant)
- (Other qualifications like scientific and educational merits to be discussed
- Other information: Soon