EUROSON Schools
Prof Odd Helge Gilja EPSC Committee Chairman
The Education and Professional Standards Committee has as one of its main tasks to
promote more EUROSON Schools to be arranged throughout Europe. In 2009, EUROSON Schools
were arranged in Pavia, Italy, in Bad Boll, Germany, and in Opatija, Croatia. I will
take this opportunity to thank all the hard-working organisers of the EUROSON Schools
for their tremendous efforts in making these successful educational events. Since
Europe is a leading force in clinical applications of CEUS, we have also started to
arrange EUROSON Schools on the subject of CEUS. Up till now 3 different post-graduate
courses on CEUS have been arranged in Hanover, Timisoara, and Bologna. Looking at
the programs and the responses these EUROSON Schools have been a great success. We
have made a formal agreement with BRACCO, securing practical and financial support
for the CEUS courses in the future. The schedule is as follows:
For 2010 Schools, BRACCO will in addition sponsor 4 international speakers for Romania,
2 in Timisoara and 2 in Bucharest.
State-of-the-art lectures from these courses have been published on the EFSUMB web-site
for your free access.
Stay tuned in on the EFSUMB web site (www.efsumb.org) to view also the coming presentations.
We have made a dedicated "start package", that can be downloaded from our website,
to help new organisers of EUROSON Schools getting started.
The EFSUMB Course Book, with Prof. Dietrich as main editor, is under construction
and right now several experts around Europe are writing chapters to this novel educational
resource. The intensions are to integrate the course book with the EUROSON Schools
and provide the educational material for our members through the EFSUMB website.
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 Intensive Care Ultrasound recommendations (Appendix 13) is being finalised for
publication in the Newsletter. The EPS Committee has decided also to have Minimum
Training requirements on CEUS, This new Committee, chaired by Dr Hans-Peter Weskott,
is now writing the document and we are planning publication in first half of 2010.
EFSUMB continuously works to expand our website with educational material. We invite
you to send interesting ultrasound cases that can be published on the website. At
the EUROSON meeting in Edinburgh, there is a session "Ultrasound on the Web", in which
an overview of ultrasound web resources will be given and also practical hints on
how to design and publish ultrasound cases.
Odd Helge Gilja
EPSC Committee Chairman
