Report Education and Professional Standard Committee

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Odd Helge Gilja, Chairman EPSC

Dear ultrasound friend,

In November I had the great pleasure to meet some of you at our first Euroson School on CEUS in Hanover. Under the excellent auspices of Dr. Weskott, about 75 participants experienced a successful postgraduate course with many state-of the-art lectures by experts from all over the world. There was broadcasting from Japan, USA and China to the audience with the possibility for online discussions with the speakers on the other side of the globe. Dedicated hands-on sessions enabled close insight to the different manufacturers' tools for CEUS scanning. Some of the lectures are soon to be published on the web, so stay tuned on the EFSUMB web site (www.efsumb.org). I extend my sincere gratefulness to Dr Weskott and his local team for all the efforts they made to make this Euroson School a great success.

Euroson Schools

The Education and Professional Standards Committee has as one of its main tasks to promote more Euroson Schools to be arranged throughout Europe. We have made a dedicated "start package", that can be downloaded from our website, to help new organisers of Euroson Schools getting started. Furthermore, as Europe is a leading force in clinical applications of CEUS, we are planning to arrange regular Euroson Schools on the subject of CEUS. We have now made a formal agreement with Bracco, securing practical and financial support for the CEUS courses in the future.

It is a great pleasure for me to announce that 6 Euroson Schools are scheduled for 2009, of which 3 are dedicated for CEUS. These post-graduate courses are excellent opportunities for you to update you competence in many fields of Ultrasonography.

Status of the Minimum Training Recommendations for the Practice of Medical Ultrasound in Europe

The different guidelines and recommendations can be viewed online at the EFSUMB website. The minimum training recommendations on thoracic ultrasound was recently published on the web and more are to follow. The EPS Committee has decided also to have Minimum Training requirements on CEUS, including TIPS AND TRICKS to improve scanning. This new committee is chaired by HP Weskott and is co-chaired by L Thorelius.

EFSUMB continuously works to expand our website with educational material. We would like to invite you to send interesting ultrasound cases that can be published on the website. At the next EUROSON meeting in Edinburgh, the EPS Committee is planning to hold a session "Ultrasound on the Web", in which overview of ultrasound web resources will be given and also practical hints on how to design and publish ultrasound cases.

Dr Weskott from Germany holding the microphone for Dr Nolsøe from Denmark who is talking to Prof Burns from Canada, on the phone from Japan.

See you there!

Prof. Odd Helge Gilja, Chairman EPSC

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