ERT Requirements

EUROTOX Mission

EUROTOX aims to foster toxicology, both scientifically and educationally, in all countries of Europe. To this, EUROTOX organises an annual scientific congress, workshops, and postgraduate training courses.
EUROTOX is actively harmonising toxicology education and training, having established the European Register of Toxicologists in 1994.
Furthermore EUROTOX honours annually a distinguished European toxicologist by its Merit Award. Young toxicologists are encouraged by the annual Young Scientist Award, which is awarded every year to the best presentation at the EUROTOX Congress.

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BHMF FUND

To honour Professor Bo Holmstedt, the Bo Holmstedt Memorial Fund (BHMF), in collaboration with EUROTOX, has established the Bo Holmstedt Memorial Lecture to be presented to an outstanding European Toxicologist at the EUROTOX Annual Congress meeting. The foundation is also supporting the Paracelcus symposium at the annual meeting. Bo Holmstedt's great interest in the teaching of toxicology and supported research in developing countries, a travelling lecture fellowship has also been established to allow a toxicologist from a developing country to spent some time in a European laboratory or regulatory agency.

ERT Requirements

The typical academic and practical skills required of an applicant were first published by EUROTOX in 1994 and may be found on their website.

The expectations are summarised as follows: basic theoretical training (three years minimum), further advanced theoretical and practical training in toxicology (two or more further years).

Suitable applicants for registration will have demonstrated a high standard of critical ability and communication skills, for example by authorship of published papers and/or reports.

Once registered, a toxicologist must re-affirm their registration credentials and illustrate their currency on a 5-yearly basis.

SUMMARY OF THE ERT TEMPLATES

Template	Current position	Degree	Years of experience	Numbers of publications or reports	Eligible for
Cristina	Student	MS, BS	3-4	3-5	National register
Jan	Researcher	MS, PhD	5-10	10-20	ERT
Hilary	Expert teacher advisor	PhD	10-20	40-50	ERT
Theo	Risk assessor	PhD	>20	>100	ERT