In 2007, in this journal, John Pryor reported the development of the European Academy for Sexual Medicine (EASM) [1]. He reported that the founder trustees had agreed upon a definition of sexual medicine and that they had written a "curriculum" to provide guidance for candidates preparing for a putative examination in sexual medicine to be run under the auspices of the Union of European Medical Specialists (UEMS), which functions under the umbrella of the European Union. The Editor of this journal applauded this report [2], commending the diversity of topics included within the "curriculum". Partly as a consequence of the initiative, The Journal of Sexual Medicine (JSM) launched its Continuing Medical Education section that has since attempted to blueprint the "curriculum." In fact the curriculum, as it was called, was in educational terms really a short syllabus, which has served the useful purpose of providing a structure around which education and training in sexual medicine might be developed.
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