REPORT OF THE FESSH DELEGATE Prof. AURELIO PORTINCASA FEBOPRAS ASSEMBLEA GENERALE SICM FOGGIA - VENERDI’ 10 OTTOBRE 2014 FESSH DELEGATES MEETING Thursday,

REPORT OF THE FESSH DELEGATE

Prof. AURELIO PORTINCASAFEBOPRAS

ASSEMBLEA GENERALE SICM FOGGIA - VENERDI’ 10 OTTOBRE 2014

FESSH DELEGATES MEETING

Thursday, 19 June 2014 – Paris, France

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 activelyAurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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

László Egri from Hungary with 80 points

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=86Aurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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

Hand Trauma Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Bruno

Battiston

Journal Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Gürsel

Leblebicioglu

Relationship Committee chair for 2014-2017 – Lars Dahlin

NEW MANDATES IN THE FESSH COUNCIL

Aurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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

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

EXAMINATION COMMITTEE REPORT –MAURIZIO CALCAGNI


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:

www.fessh.com

Registration closing date: November 30, 2014

Contact: [email protected] Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

TRAINING COMMITTEE REPORT – DAVID WARWICK

White Book of Hand Surgery

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


Searchable

database

Training

Research

Fellowship

Observorship

Enter your own centre

Training

Research

Fellowship

Observorship

TRAINING AND RESEARCH DATABASE

Web based entry and search forms

at

www.fessh.comAurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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


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]


WIENOctober 20 to 21 , 2014

JOURNAL COMMITTEE REPORT – MARCO

RITTNew 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 LeblebiciogluAurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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. FeitzAurelio Portincasa M.D. - FEBOPRAS

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


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 MeetingESPRAS Further connections still to be seeked – at ESPRAS Council in

Edinburgh2 members of the Relationship Committee Portincasa (Italy), P. Kopylov (Sweden)New chair of the Relationship Committee from 2014 to 2017 Lars Dahlin (Sweden)


TECHNICAL COMMITTEE REPORT – CHRISTOPHE

MATHOULIN

REGULAR COURSES

Over 1,000 students by the 30th course in 2014

Involving all former Presidents of EWAS

Mainly in Europe but also in the US and Asia

FURTHER COURSES

Planned for Columbia, Singapore, Australia and India

JOURNAL OF WRIST SURGERY

With 6 issues in 2014

TOPICS

Robotics

Ultrasonography

e-teaching 93 videos released on wrist

with more than 1,5 million visits

New project – video database on wrist and

hand surgery


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


TOP 10 COUNTRIES REGISTERED FOR PARIS

ITALY

FRANCE

NETHERLANDS

U.K.SWITZERLAND

JAPAN

GRMANY

SPAIN

BERLGIUM

S. COREA


FESSH CONGRESS 2014SUCCESSFUL 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


UK 108

JAPAN 101

FRANCE 97

SOUTH KOREA 90

TURKEY 44

ITALY 40

SWITZERLAND 39

GERMANY 33

USA 32

NETHERLANDS 28 SPAIN 28

BRAZIL 21

RUSSIA 14

SWEDEN 13 AUSTRIA 13

SINGAPORE 10 BELGIUM 10

ROMANIA 9 GREECE 9 NORWAY 9

HUNGARY 8 POLAND 8 INDIA 8 DENMARK 8

ARGENTINA 7 EGYPT 7 TAIWAN 7

BULGARIA 6

UKRAINE 5 CZECH REP 5 IRAN 5

PORTUGAL 4 MALAYSIA 4 SOUTH AFRICA 4 ISRAEL 4

AUSTRALIA 4

SAUDI ARABIA 3 OMAN 3 CHILE 3 LUXEMBOURG 3 UAE

3

HONG KONG 2

FINLAND 1 TUNISIA 1 QATAR 1 NEW ZEALAND 1

THAILAND 1 COLOMBIA 1 SLOVENIA 1

TOTAL 866

FESSH CONGRESS 2014

ABSTRACTS SUBMITTED BY COUNTRIES



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 COURSEDupuytren's Disease

Chairman: Prof. David Warwick (UK)


GRAZIE PER L’ATTENZIONE

[email protected]

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REPORT OF THE FESSH DELEGATE Prof. AURELIO PORTINCASA FEBOPRAS ASSEMBLEA GENERALE SICM FOGGIA - VENERDI’ 10 OTTOBRE 2014 FESSH DELEGATES MEETING Thursday,