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14th Congress PAPS, Serwy, 13-15/9/2012

CESMA report

Gian Battista Parigi

CESMA Treasurer

Founded in Glasgow,

9 February 2007

• 9 Sections attended the first meeting

• Joint redaction of the

• Glasgow Declaration

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Ten years later…

A second «decennial»

meeting in Glasgow, RCPS,

May 2017 attended by 37

Sections

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CESMA membership

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CESMA = Thematic

Federation of UEMS

• To promote harmonisation of European

Board assessments

• To provide guidelines to the Boards on the

conduct of assessments

• To encourage take up of Board assessments as

a quality mark

• To offer an alternative to National assessments,

where appropriate

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Approved guidelines

on:

• Quality Control of European postgraduate

medical assessments

• Organisation of EPMA

• Examiners selection for EPMA

• Successful writing of MCQ

• Appeal procedure

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Appraisal procedures

• Transplant Surgery

• Ophtalmogy

• Hand Surgery

• Surgical Oncology

Radiology

• Plastic &

Reconstructive Surgery

• Anaesthesiology

• General Surgery

• Neurology

• Intensive Care

Medicine

• Interventional

Radiology

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Ongoing / planned

activities – 1

• Central database of successful candidates

• Updated and more detailed version of

Glasgow declaration

• Harmonisation of assessment of medical

competence through definition of an

European Assessment Model

• Liaison with other medical organisations to

improve assessment systems

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Ongoing / planned

activities – 2

• Advocacy for recognition of European

Diplomas at national level

• Audit and accreditation of European

Specialty Examinations

• Contribution to shaping the UEMS e-portfolio

for the assessment of medical competence in

the framework of ECAMSQ

• Interaction with WGPGT

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Burning questions

• Global Examination in medicine – interaction

with MRCP

• Participation by commercial organisations

• Opening exams to non EU citizens

• Lifelong competence assessments

• Keeping pace with evolving technologies of

examination

• Real clinical situations examination /

workplace-based assessment / clinical skills

labs (NASCE)

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Quantitative or qualitative

assessment ?

• «Not everything that can be

counted counts and not

everything that counts can

be counted» (Albert Einstein)

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Dreams for the future

• Exam recognition survey

• CESMA School of Assessors

• Upgrading for preparatory courses

• European Diploma in the EU Professional

Card

• Sharing UEMS-CESMA expertise outside

European boundaries…

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"To accomplish great things,

we must not only act,

but also dream;

not only plan,

but also believe."

(Anatole France)

• «It pays to keep

an open mind,

but not so open

that your brains

fall out»

(Carl Sagan)

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