Meeting Report
Report from European Board of Dermato-Venereology 2015 – 2016
Eva Johansson Backman, Swedish representative in EBDV Department of Dermatovenereology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. E-mail: eva. dermis @ gmail. com
Background
UEMS and EBDV( website: http:// www. uems-ebdv. org / web /)
The UEMS promotes and guards the interests of medical specialties at an EU level. The organization currently has representation from 37 national medical organizations. Together they form the UEMS council. There are several sub-sections in the UEMS, including a large number of specialist sections. The European Board of Dermatology and Venereology( EBDV) is one of these and consists of 1 – 2 delegates from each Member state.
In the UEMS there are also working groups for issues common to all specialties, such as continuous medical education( CME), E-health, postgraduate training and quality of care.
The EBDV conducts internal work and participates and collects information on issues at a central level of the UEMS and its sub-sections. A short report regarding on-going external work is given to the national EBDV delegates during EBDV spring and fall meeting.
The EBDV has a new president as of the spring meeting 2016, Professor Peter Arenberger, from the Czech Republic.
Meetings
Since last summer, the EBDV has had a fall meeting during the EADV conference in Copenhagen, in October 2015, and a spring meeting in Split, in April 2016. In addition, a working group meeting, with a focus on the 2016 European Specialist exam in dermato-venereology in 2016 and on the update of common European Training Requirements for the Specialty of Dermatology and Venereology took place in February 2016, in Poznan.
EBDV – Internal on-going work
Training requirements
Work is underway to update the Training Requirements for the Specialty of Dermatology and Venereology. That work is being led by Professor Harald Gollnick, who is also involved in the development of a new global curriculum, through the International League of Dermatological Societies( ILDS), in which the EBDV is now a member.
European Board Examination
This year’ s specialist exam took place in Frankfurt on August 5 – 6 and was the first to be administered in digital format. It contains both a written and an oral part. There are still only a few dermatologists, 30 – 40, who take the exam and about half of them come from countries outside the EU, mainly the Middle East. The working group for the exam held a separate meeting in Poznan in February 2016, when this year’ s exam was reviewed. The undersigned was invited to attend this meeting and it is my understanding that there is much work remaining to improve and modernize the content of the exam questions, as well as ensure that the questions are clearly linked to a curriculum that is widely accepted among the national specialist organizations throughout Europe. The website for the exam is http:// www. uems-ebdv. org / web / index. php / uems-board-examination.
European Guidelines
The European Dermatology Forum( EDF) develops new common European Guidelines for Dermatovenereology. The EBDV has a subcommission who review and comment on these guidelines. This year new or updated guidelines for Chlamydia, Mycoplasma, Non-gonococcal urethritis, Acne, Cutaneous lupus erythematosus, Merkel cell carcinoma, Psoriasis and High-dose immunoglobulins in dermatology have been written and approved. All guidelines can be found on the EDF’ s website( http:// www. euroderm. org / edf /).
Wound healing
There is a newly formed thematic federation, a subdivision of the UEMS, for wound healing. This group includes representatives from specialties who are involved in the care of this patient group, such as dermatologists, plastic surgeons, vascular surgeons, specialists in infectious diseases and in diabetes. The federation has developed a proposal on a cur-
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