The outputs of this meeting were shortly discussed and subsequently used for future decisions

 

The Chairman told members of EC present that some issues had arisen and that these would be covered 

during the course of the meeting.

 

 

The Chairman informed EC that EUGA had reached further affiliated National societies with an interest to approach both Israelian and Lithuanian ones. National society meetings should be held on specific dates in recognition of previous meetings from years past. This year’s meeting will be scheduled for November, 25-27 on the last Thursday of the month in accordance with tradition of other important meetings held in Germany and Czech Republic on this date. It was furthered discussed that a representative of Astellas pharmaceutical company would be informed of all issues related to EUGA activities in order to support free communication sessions. The aim of this initiative is to increase participation among non-presenting congress delegates at meetings predominately focused on speakers.

 

The Chairman expressed his gratitude to previous Chairman, Prof. Koelbl for an active and excellent representation of EUGA in the Steering Committee of EBCOG. This activity sponsored by himself in the interest of EUGA- is extremely important for the presentation of our Association in Europe and for the support and further development of undergraduate and postgraduate education in Europe . The participation at the program of EBCOG Congress in Antwerps enabled our contribution according to the importance of our subspecialisation in gynaecology.

 

The Coordinator of Hospital Visiting and Recognition prof. Wladimiroff reported the accreditation visits performed in Madrid and appealed to continue.

 

The EBCOG Visiting Coordinator reminded auditory that the original objective of the visiting programme was for EBCOG to stimulate visits at national level and then withdraw.

He said that whilst it was EBCOG’s objective that each country should have its own visiting system, some countries with national accreditation systems were also requesting EBCOG accreditation. The Visiting Coordinator said that this was even more of a problem when departments which were not accredited by the national system asked to be accredited by EBCOG.The Visiting Coordinator said that the idea was that EBCOG recognition could be given without an actual visit but that there would have to be certain guarantees. He said that if visits to such countries were to be maintained, EBCOG needed to have a very clear understanding with, and the agreement of, the relevant national society to ensure that this would meet with the national society’s approval. To this end he said that he had sent out a letter to national societies to ask for their opinions on this issue. He said that this was a matter which needed to be dealt with quickly as requests from a number of departments had had to be put on hold and he asked delegates to ask their national societies to reply as quickly as possible with a response deadline of 28^th February 2010. Mrs Mercer agreed to re-send the letter to all Council members.

 

On behalf of EBCOG, the President thanked the Visiting Coordinator for all his efforts and hard work.

 

The members present so as those beeng apologized for absence due to the concomitant presentation agreed.

 

·         Executive Committee: Prague,   19^th & 20^th or 26^th & 27^th February 2010

 

The Chairman then closed the meeting and thanked everyone for attending and for their contributions.