Education / ESNM
The European School of Nuclear Medicine

Introduction
The European School of Nuclear Medicine (ESNM) was founded in 1997 by the late Wolfgang Becker, who had the vision that continuing education would become increasingly important as mandatory credit hours became the rule for European professionals.

The ESNM began as a small group of people charged with organising seminars in Central & Eastern Europe for colleagues who could not afford to attend the annual congress of the association. At that stage, the ESNM was the “educational outreach programme” of the EANM.
Starting in 2001 at the EANM congress in Naples, the school was charged with organising a full programme of Continuing Medical Education (CME), of interest not only to nuclear physicians but also to physicists, radiopharmacists and radiochemists. This programme was warmly accepted by the membership and has been successfully continued ever since.

Since its inception, the ESNM has grown in terms of both the number of contributing volunteers and the range of activities. The group enlarged when it was decided to incorporate the chairpersons of all Task Groups and Committees in order to ensure the delivery of state of the art education in every subspecialty.
The ESNM is now the umbrella organisation for all educational activities of the EANM..