Geriatric Medicine
- section of UEMS
Latest News
2025 European Training Requirements
2025 European Training Requirements (ETR) in the Specialty of Geriatric Medicine have now been published by the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS).
Read the full document here: https://www.uems.eu/european-training-requirements
or download here
European Geriatric Medicine Specialty Exam
Applications for the second pilot just opened (15 Oct) and the closing date is the 12 Nov 2025, for the 4 Feb 2026 exam
https://www.egemse.org/
European Training Requirements Geriatric Medicine
- The European Training Requirements Geriatric Medicine were approved at the UEMS Council Meeting on 17 October 2020 and are due for review this year.
- The updated ETR work led by Professor Roman Romero Ortuno has reached its final stages and is due to be submitted to the UEMS council for ratification at the UEMS autumn council meeting 2025. The updated ETR will appear here once ratified
- The European Geriatric Medicine Specialist Exam (EGeMSE) has been established. The EUMS-GM section and EUGMS have collaborated with the Federation of Royal Colleges of the United Kingdom and the British Geriatrics Society in achieving this landmark exam for Europe. This is a voluntary European examination in Geriatric Medicine. We would encourage potential participants and others to explore the EGeMSE website. Links to resources to support preparation for the exam will appear here. More information is available on the website
- Work on updating the pregraduate training requirements continue
Next Meeting
Autumn 2026
Advance Notice about the EUGMS meeting in Lille France.
Put the dates in your diary.
Issues
Current Issues
- The UEMS Geriatrics Section is one of 43 specialist sections of the UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists).
- Geriatric medicine is a recognized independent medical specialty in 17 of 31 European countries, a recognized subspecialty in 10 countries, and in two countries (Germany, France) both models (independent specialty and subspecialty) exist. Only 5 countries (Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Portugal and Slovenia) do not have a recognized postgraduate medical degree in geriatric medicine as of 2016.
- For historic and structural reasons the organisation of geriatric medicine varies between European countries.
The UEMS Geriatrics Section addresses common issues shared among all countries. In previous work, the Section proposed on a uniform definition of geriatrics (with translations in many European languages) and on minimum requirements for training in geriatrics as part of undergraduate medical training.
Currently, the key focus of the Section is the definition of standards of postgraduate training in geriatric medicine.