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The Reproductive Medicine subspecialist is a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology who has undergone theoretical and practical training in all aspects of reproductive endocrinology, as well as the medical and surgical management of fertility treatments. Comprehensive management includes diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, outcome audits, quality control and providing optimal care in reproductive medicine.


To be eligible for subspecialty training a centre must:

  1. Provide a service for the referral and transfer of patients who would benefit from subspecialty facilities, expertise and experience.
  2. Establish close collaboration with related disciplines to ensure a high degree of teamwork and resource concentration for the intensive investigation and management of such patients.
  3. Establish close collaboration with other obstetricians and gynaecologists, as well as related specialists within and outside the centre, including major regional roles in continuing postgraduate education and training, research advice and networking and audits.
  4. Maintain an adequate workload to provide a full range of experience in the subspecialty. Alternatively, two or more centres may combine to provide a programme with all the required experience;
  5. Have a programme director who will co-ordinate the training programme, accept primary responsibility for its supervision, and be actively involved in it. When more than one centre provides the programme, there must be a supervisor at each centre, with one having overall responsibility as director. Directors and supervisors will be consultants with special experience in the relevant subspecialty field. As subspecialisation develops, the directors and supervisors will themselves be trained subspecialists. If the programme director changes, the training centre will be revisited;
  6. Ensure adequate medical staffing to enable the fellow to engage in their subspecialty field on a full-time basis (or in the case of a part-time fellow, during all of their normal working hours). Participation in emergency and on-call work outside normal working hours is not excluded, subject to approval by the Subspecialty Committee;
  7. Provide adequate library, laboratory and other resources to support subspecialty work, training and research;
  8. Have appropriate clinical facilities for investigating relevant endocrine and infertility disorders, maintain an established MAR programme, provide training in laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, as well as male infertility;
  9. Maintain a research programme in the subspecialty field, providing fellows with access to support their own training programmes, including design and preferably participation in ethically approved trials and studies.

The payment links are sent once per day. You will first receive a confirmation email for submitting your application, followed by an automatic payment link in a separate email within the next 24 hours. If your institution processes payments only via bank transfer, please contact certification@eshre.eu for further instructions.

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The certification process will be managed by the ESHRE Centre accreditation of subspecialist training programme in Reproductive Medicine Steering Committee.


The Steering Committee reviews the application to assess if the requirements are met. Approval of institutions as training centres should be based on the general and special requirements provided, and not conflict with national laws.


The ESHRE Steering Committee organises a site visit (virtual or physical) by two assessors after the application is accepted. In case of missing points, the assessors will reassess after 2 two years. If all recommendations are fulfilled, accreditation will be approved for another three years (a total of five years). Reaccreditation will be performed every five years if the centre fulfils all requirements. If necessary, recognition can be withdrawn.
ESHRE is willing to organise an extra evaluation visit to a training unit if requested.

Fellows have a questionnaire available to assess the quality of training. An interview with the fellows is scheduled during the visit of ESHRE assessors, providing direct feedback from training participants. When assessing the quality of training by fellows, the following is checked:

a. Progress in the logbook and clinical experience in Reproductive Medicine.
b. Protected time for fellow's participation in scientific activities/research.
c. Fellow’s participation in reproductive medicine and clinical embryology courses in particular those advised by ESHRE.