Transcript REPORT OF THE FESSH DELEGATE Prof. AURELIO

ASSEMBLEA GENERALE SICM
FOGGIA - VENERDI’ 10 OTTOBRE 2014
FESSH DELEGATES MEETING
Thursday, 19 June 2014 – Paris, France
REPORT OF THE FESSH DELEGATE
Prof. AURELIO PORTINCASA
FEBOPRAS
SECRETARY GENERAL REPORT
ZSOLT SZABÓ
Zsolt Szabó informed the delegates that it is the last meeting for him as Secretary
General. Max Haerle is proposed candidate for the position by the Council and has been approved by
Delegates.
Summary of 3 years’ activity
 Transparency through clear guidelines in FESSH
 Establishing Relationship and Technical Committees
 Delegates Reward System for motivating national Delegates to spread FESSH news more effectively
and assist the FESSH Council more actively
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FESSH DELEGATES AWARD
Awarded delegates (free registration for FESSH Congress)
 Carina Reinhardt from Sweden with 100 points

Ufuk Nalbantoglu from Turkey with 100 points

Alexandru Georgescu from Romania with 80 points
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László Egri from Hungary with 80 points
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Igor Golubev from Russia with 80 points
 David Shewring from UK with 80 points.
Criteria and scoring results are available at
http://www.fessh.com/index.php?c=86
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NEW MANDATES IN THE FESSH COUNCIL

Secretary General for 2014-2017 –Max Haerle – approved by Delegates
 Treasurer for 2014-2018 – Chantal Bonnard – approved by Delegates

Examination Committee chair for 2013-2016 – Maurizio Calcagni
 Research Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Erik Walbeehm
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Hand Trauma Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Bruno Battiston
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Journal Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Gürsel Leblebicioglu
 Relationship Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Lars Dahlin
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EXAMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT –MAURIZIO CALCAGNI
MCQ test onMarch 21st 2014

124 registrations - 77 accepted - Passed 60 (78%)

Range 228-78 - Mean 156 (SD +/-29) - Pass was set at 127 points
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Mark 5 =1 (1.29%) - Mark 4 = 16 (20.78%) - Mark 3 = 43 (55.85%)
Best MCQ examination: Dr. Marc Mombert (BE) with 228 points
Oral examinations on 16-17 June 2014
 Failed 13 – Passed 53 – Total failure rate 34.9%
Best examination(s) at 14 points

Marc Mombert, Belgium

Robert Pearl, United Kingdom

Joost Colaris, Holland
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EUROPEAN BOARD OF HAND SURGERY
19th DIPLOMA EXAMINATION
 March, 2015 MCQ online test
 June 15-16, 2015 Oral examination in Milano
 More details and web based application form at:
 Registration closing date: November 30, 2014
 Contact: [email protected]
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www.fessh.com
TRAINING COMMITTEE REPORT – DAVID WARWICK
White Book of Hand Surgery
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Available at www.fessh.com – next update in 2015
Travel Awards

For FESSH members to travel in Europe - up to €4,000

Big success – encouraging FESSH members to apply

Online application opens in July and available till end of November 2014
FESSH Patronage

Criteria available at www.fessh.com
Instructional Course in 2015

David Warwick will be Chair of the Instructional Course in Milan

Topic is Dupuytren’s Disease
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TRAINING AND RESEARCH DATABASE
Searchable database
Enter your own centre
Training
Training
Research
Research
Fellowship
Fellowship
Observorship
Observorship
Web based entry and search forms at
www.fessh.com
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HAND TRAUMA COMMITTEE REPORT - BRUNO BATTISTON
HTC COMMITTEE MEETING -March 23rd in Torino
Z. Dailiana (Greece), N. Schmelzer-Schmied (Germany), I. Golubev (Russia), R. Lester (UK) and M. Sanmartin (Spain)
 Topic to improve HTC net with extending it to centres performing hand
 trauma care for less than 24 hrs in an emergency setting
 Accredited Hand Trauma Centres (HUB) with 24 hrs access
 Trauma Units (Spokes)
THINGS TO BE DONE
 Updating representatives’ list and addresses (checked by national HTC representatives)
 Improve contacts between applying Centres and National Societies to increase the number of official members
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FESSH HAND TRAUMA CENTER ACCREDITATION
Searchable database
 containing all major trauma centres in Europe
 data added by centers online
 aproval by national representatives
 diploma of accreditation for 3 years
 accredited centers listed on FESSH website
 now: 129 accredited centers in 18 European countries
Join the database and send your request to
[email protected]
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WIEN
October 20 to 21 , 2014
JOURNAL COMMITTEE REPORT – MARCO RITT
New design of JHS European Volume
JHS(E) App to download free for 3 months
• Later only for subscribers
JHS Committee of Managment report
• Citation index 1.223
• 35 out of the 65 ISI category ‘Orthopaedics’
• 118 out off 187 in ‘Surgery’
FESSH Editors
• R. Wetherell from 2014 and H. Court from 2016
Top 10 downloaded paper
• Presented at the FESSH Congress in Paris
New chair of the Journal Committee (2014 - 2017)
• Gürsel Leblebicioglu
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RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT – ERIK WALBEEHM
BASIC SCIENCE IN HAND SURGERY FELLOWSHIP
 Criteria is available at www.fessh.com
 A stipend of 10.000 Euro will be awarded
 For a 3-6 months fellowship devoted to full-time research during 2015
 Deadline for application: November 30, 2014
DUPUYTREN REGISTRY
 Still in process
 Dupuytren Team with members as: M. Calcagni, P. Werker, G. McGrouther, G. Giddins, N.
Felici, L. Stevens-van der Ven, R. Selles
 Wrist Team liaising with H. Coert and R. Feitz
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ACCREDITATION COMMITTEE REPORT – JÖRG BAHM
FESSH related UEMS activities
 European Board of Hand Surgery diploma examination
 Accreditation of Live Educational Events (e.g. FESSH congress)
 CESMA (Specialist Medical Assessment for the EBHS Exam)
 ECAMSQ (Medical Specialist Accreditation)
FESSH strategy
 Is to become a Hand Surgery Section in UEMS
 FESSH needs 5 more (in total 9) member countries where hand surgery is
 acknowledged as a speciality
 Delegates are requested to discuss the possibility within their national society
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RELATIONSHIP COMMITTEE REPORT –MAX HAERLE
EFORT
 2.5 hrs FESSH-EWAS Session in London
 Topic: ‘Therapeutical options in SLAC and SNAC’ with 12 experts involved
 Participation at EFORT General Assembly
 Participation at EFORT Speciality Society Meeting
ESPRAS
 Further connections still to be seeked – at ESPRAS Council in Edinburgh
2 members of the Relationship Committee
 Portincasa (Italy), P. Kopylov (Sweden)
New chair of the Relationship Committee from 2014 to 2017
 Lars Dahlin (Sweden)
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TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT – CHRISTOPHE MATHOULIN
REGULAR COURSES
JOURNAL OF WRIST SURGERY
 Over 1,000 students by the 30th course in 2014
 With 6 issues in 2014
 Involving all former Presidents of EWAS
 Mainly in Europe but also in the US and Asia
TOPICS
 Robotics
FURTHER COURSES
 Ultrasonography
 Planned for Columbia, Singapore, Australia and India
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e-teaching 93 videos released on wrist
with more than 1,5 million visits
 New project – video database on wrist and hand surgery
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FESSH CONGRESS 2014 - PARIS
REGISTRATION NUMBERS BY COUNTRIES (TOTAL 1591)
FRANCE
217
NORWAY
28
NEW ZELAND
9
UKRAINE
3
NETHERLANDS
144
POLAND
23
CANADA
8
CHINA
2
UK
144
GREECE
21
COLOMBIA
8
INDIA
2
SWITZERLAND
118
SWEDEN
21
SLOVENIA
8
ISLAND
2
JAPAN
90
ARGENTINA
19
EGYPT
7
OMAN
2
GERMANY
80
CHILE
18
HONG KONG
6
POLYNESIA
2
SPAIN
66
RUSSIA
15
SINGAPOUR
6
CHYPRA
1
BELGIUM
57
FINLAND
13
TAIWAN
6
MALAYSIA
1
ITALY
53
ISRAEL
13
ANTILLES NL
4
MARTINIQUE
1
SOUTH KOREA
52
CZECH REPUBLIC
13
NORTH KOREA
4
MONACO
1
TURKEY
42
PORTUGAL
11
ESTONIA
4
NIGERIA
1
DENMARK
41
BULGARIA
10
LUXEMBOURG
4
QATAR
1
USA
40
HUNGARY
10
SAUDI ARABIA
3
SLOVAKIA
1
AUSTRIA
35
ROMANIA
10
UAE
3
SYRIA
1
AUSTRALIA
31
SOUTH AFRICA
9
IRAN
3
THAILAND
1
BRAZIL
29
IRELAND
9
TUNISIA
3
URUGAY
1
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TOP 10 COUNTRIES REGISTERED FOR PARIS
S. COREA
ITALY
BERLGIUM
FRANCE
SPAIN
GRMANY
NETHERLANDS
JAPAN
SWITZERLAND
U.K.
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FESSH CONGRESS 2014
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES AT THE EBHS EXAMINATION
AUSTRIA
0
LATVIA
0
BELGIUM
4
NETHERLANDS
7
BULGARIA
0
NORWAY
0
CYPRUS
1
POLAND
0
CZECH REPUBLIC
0
PORTUGAL
0
DENMARK
0
ROMANIA
0
EGYPT
1
RUSSIA
1
ESTONIA
1
SLOVENIA
0
FINLAND
1
SPAIN
2
FRANCE
2
SWEDEN
1
GERMANY
9
SWITZERLAND
3
GREECE
2
TURKEY
0
HUNGARY
1
UK
16
IRELAND
2
UKRAINE
0
ITALY
1
TOTAL
25
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FESSH CONGRESS 2014
ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED BY COUNTRIES
UK 108
SWEDEN 13 AUSTRIA 13
JAPAN 101
SINGAPORE 10 BELGIUM 10
FRANCE 97
ROMANIA 9
SOUTH KOREA 90
HUNGARY 8
TURKEY 44
ARGENTINA 7 EGYPT 7
ITALY 40
BULGARIA 6
SWITZERLAND 39
UKRAINE 5
GERMANY 33
PORTUGAL 4 MALAYSIA 4 SOUTH AFRICA 4 ISRAEL 4 AUSTRALIA 4
USA 32
SAUDI ARABIA 3
NETHERLANDS 28 SPAIN 28
HONG KONG 2
BRAZIL 21
FINLAND 1
RUSSIA 14
THAILAND 1
GREECE 9
NORWAY 9
POLAND 8 INDIA 8
DENMARK 8
TAIWAN 7
CZECH REP 5 IRAN 5
OMAN 3 CHILE 3
TUNISIA 1
QATAR 1
LUXEMBOURG 3 UAE 3
NEW ZEALAND 1
COLOMBIA 1 SLOVENIA 1
TOTAL 866
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MAIN TOPICS OF THE CONGRESS
o Congenital malformation: advanced surgery
o Open and arthroscopic technique for wrist trauma
o Brachial plexus and peripheral nerve injuries
o RA today
o Joint stiffness
o Tissue engineering and Regenerative Surgery
o Elbow and forearm
o Microsurgery: new trends in multiple tissue reconstruction
o What’s in what’s out in hand surgery
o Long fingers deformities
o Economical problems ‐ and solutions ‐ in Europe
INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE
Dupuytren's Disease
Chairman: Prof. David Warwick (UK)
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GRAZIE PER L’ATTENZIONE
[email protected]