European Association for
Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery
SECRETARY GENERAL: Dr. John
Lowry, FRCS, FDSRCS
The Clock House, 39 North
Street, Midhurst, West Sussex, G29 9DS,
UNITED KINGDOM
Tel: +44 (0) 1730 815726 Fax:
+44 (0) 1730 812042
e-mail: ea.cms@virgin.net and
johnlowry1@compuserve.com
EACMFS NEWSLETTER
Dear Colleague
Welcome to the
first newsletter of the year 2000. could
I wish you, your colleagues and families
a very happy and successful New Year.
The past year has for the Secretariat
been one of continuing difficulty in
keeping contact with members Even in this
age of electronic and technological
advance when communications should be so
much more secure the problems of
membership documentation and subscription
payment are enormous. We have made
considerable efforts to find out where
complications are arising especially for
those colleagues who inform us that they
have made a payment. Some of these
are problems of personal records while
others have arisen because of something
as simple as a number being
incorrectly written in the bank details.
I made reference in the last newsletter
to the work of our colleagues in UEMS and
our wish as an Association to facilitate
wherever we are able the process of
harmonisation of training requirements
for our specialty. Our President,
Dr John Williams is maintaining informal
links with representative members of the
Advisory Committees on Medical Training
(ACMT) and Dental Practitioners (ACDP) of
the European Commission. We very much
hope that such contacts as well as our
close links with UEMS and the European
Board will continue to be fruitful
especially in relation to our role in
education and training.
The Assistant Secretary, Dr Henri Thuau
is updating the White Book of educational
and training requirements that the
Secretariat has developed and
progressively revised over the past 6
years. This is a formidable task and we
are grateful to those Councillors who
have assisted in providing updated
information. We are in addition anxious
to obtain details of any published
statutory or legal requirements of
training for the specialty where they
exist. This is designed to assist in the
work of our Liaison Group with the
American Association of Oral &
Maxillofacial Surgeons with whom we are
also keen to extend the exchange
educational programe.
The Education Officer, Professor Bernard
Devauchelle in addition to coordinating
the long-standing series of EACMFS
sponsored courses and symposia is now
developing a rolling educational
programme matched to the curriculum for
the RQ Examinations of the European
Board. The senior Vice-President,
Professor Ulrich Joos has been actively
investigating potential sources of
funding for this ambitious project.
The courses so far planned for the
current year and one for next year are
listed below. This information will be
progressively updated throughout the year
and further details announced in the
Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.
I would also like to remind colleagues
that the Association is keen to assist in
co-ordinating educational visits of
trainees to extend their experience
beyond that available in their own unit.
Senior members who are prepared to offer
such a facility as well as trainees
anxious to take advantage of such
opportunities are encouraged to direct
their requests to the
Education Officer or the
Secretariat.
EACMFS is able to award of a number of
Travelling Scholarships to facilitate
such educational visits and full details
together with application forms for these
are available from the Secretariat as
well as on the recently launched website
which links to the home-pages for the
publishers, Harcourt-Brace and also the
conference organisers, Clansman-Monarch.
Studies undertaken during such visits
often form the basis of papers which may
be submitted to the Editor-in-Chief,
Professor Karsten Gundlach for possible
publication in JCMFS or for presentation
at a Congress of the Association. All
papers presented by Trainee Members at
the forthcoming Congress 2000 will
automatically be considered for the award
of a Leibinger Prize. This award caries
with it significant prestige and I am
delighted to announce that Howmedica
Leibinger Gmbh have generously agreed to
support three awards for the current
year.
Finally could I
thank you all for your continued support
of the Association. The Secretariat is
always keen to hear from you and greatly
values advice and comments from members.
We very much hope to have the opportunity
of meeting with you in Edinburgh. We
would suggest that to avoid
disappointment you make your reservations
at the earliest opportunity as Edinburgh
is a very popular international venue for
many activities especially in the late
summer around the time of the
World-famous Festival.
With very best wishes
JOHN LOWRY
Secretary-General
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PRELIMINARY
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME: 2000
COURSES
AND SYMPOSIA approved by the EACMFS:
February 21-25 Liverpool, England -
Practical microvascular surgery
Dr ED Vaughan
March 6-7 Graz, Austria - 3D
simulation in cranio-maxillofacial
surgery
Professor G Santler
April 14-15 Bolton, England - Oral
cancer: reducing mortality
Professor Jatin Shah, Dr Julia
Woolgar, Dr JS Brown
April 27-28 Bruges, Belgium - 5th
International Symposium : Treatment of
head and neck malignancies
Dr J Abeloos
May 21-26 Verona, Italy - Rhinoplasty
2000: 1st international
advanced maxillofacial surgery course
Professor PF Nocini, Dr E Tardy Jr
June 18-21 Dorset, England - IAMFST
Symposium: Facial reconstruction
Dr N Kalavrezos
July 1-5 Zurich, Switzerland - 1st
World Cleft Congress : International
Cleft Lip & Palate Foundation
Professor HF Sailer
July 3-7 Graz. Austria - 4th
course on microsurgical reconstruction in
cranio-maxillofacial surgery
Prof H Karcher, Prof B
Devauchelle,Dr F Anderhub
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