Dates | Place | Application Deadline |
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9th of June 2023 | Lyon, France | Applications not yet open |
Applications for the examinations in 2023 have not yet opened. We will update this page as soon as we have any more information regarding the exam.
We advise potential applicants to read thoroughly this page and the documents which can be downloaded from this page.
We kindly encourage applicants to submit their documents and payment as early as possible, once applications are open.
Please note that you have to submit all the required documents and paid the Eligibility fee before the deadline date. The further payment of the Examination fee may be possible after the deadline date within 2 weeks from the notification of your eligibility (sent by email).
All candidates, including new candidates and those who postponed or failed previously must apply through this website!
The Fellowship of the European Board of Surgery in HPB Surgery) is obtained on passing Part I (Eligibility) and Part II (Examination) of the European Board of Surgery Qualification examination.
This year the Eligibility test is done in two parts.
Applicants must fill out all fields of the application and pay the Eligibility fee in order to pass the first part of the Eligibility assessment. The payment of the Eligibility fee is a mandatory step for your application to be taken into account by the Eligibility Board.
Those who are successful will receive a Medbook code to create an account on the www.Medbook.com platform. They will have to enter all the requested information and to inform their URL Medbook profile on their EBSQ application form, so that the Eligibility Board can consult it and proceed to the second and final part of the Eligibility assessment.
The applicant will be informed of the acceptance or rejection of his/her application in due time.
Candidates who pass the second part of the Eligibility assessment process will be asked to pay the Examination fee (600 euros) to finalise their registration for the EBSQ examination. The payment of the Examination fee is a mandatory step for your application to be finalized and taken into account by the Examination Board.
To apply to the EBSQ examination in HPB surgery, a candidate must fulfil the following requirements for eligibility:
The candidate must have a total of 20 credit points (CPs), as per the Credit Points document.
The candidate must have performed at least 50 major HPB procedures independent of a kind. As an example of major HPB procedure, major liver resections mean 3 or more segments of liver. The details of required HPB procedures are indicated in the Logbook requirements document.
As support to their application, the applicant should produce the following documents, the first is to be downloaded from this website (template hereunder) and filled out :
For the first part of the Eligibility assessment :
For the second part of the Eligibility assessment :
The Examination is held once or twice a year and takes place over a single day.
Examinations in HPB are only offered in English
The written exam (multiple choice questions) takes place at the same examination centre and on the same day as the oral exam. Candidates should bring their own laptop, as the examination is conducted on the UEMS online examination platform. The fact that a candidate does not have a laptop should not prevent them from taking the exam, we will ensure that a laptop is provided.
The oral exam consists of 3 consecutives 30 minutes sessions. Each session consists of two or three clinical cases discussions. Clinical cases are presented in a digital format with patient’s history and imaging.
Examiners will ask specific questions based on patient’s data, surgical technique, controversies and available clinical trials on the subject.
The exam includes the questions from the following areas:
The examination can be repeated up to 3 times in 3 years in case of failure (ie: maximum 3 attempts in total).
The “pass mark” of the written exam is different every year. It is calculated before the exam using international standard-setting procedure (Anghoff Scoring) and depends on complexity of the questions. Calculated values are usually (not always) between 68-70%. Percentiles based system (Cohen) is not used.
A candidate successfully passing the examination will be qualified as: Fellow of the European Board of Surgery in HPB Surery (F.E.B.S. HPB Surg) and is provided with the relevant certificate. The Fellowship of the UEMS is a significant high-level indication of professional competence and excellence. It basically reflects the ongoing important European standardisation, harmonisation and quality assurance process in medicine.
The global fee for the EBSQ examination in HPB surgery is of 850 euros, divided as follows:
– Eligibility fee of 250 euros (non refundable if the candidate is not eligible), and
– Examination fee of 600 euros.
The Eligibility fee is to be paid when the candidate applies, before the Eligibility assessment process.
The Examination fee is to be paid once the eligibility of the candidate has been confirmed. The payment of the Examination fee finalises and completes the registration of the candidate for the examination.
Candidates who fail the exam may resit (within 2 years) without undergoing a further Eligibility fee but will have to pay the examination fee (€ 600) each time they resit.
Cancellation/Postponement up to 30 days before the exam- Exam fees (if paid) postponed to next sitting + an admin charge of 90 euro.
Cancellation/Postponement less than 30 days before the exam – Exam fees not transferred to the next exam. If candidate was deemed eligible then they will pay the full exam fee + 90 euro admin fee. They will not have to pay the eligibility fee again if they have been assessed eligible.
Reasonable cancellations within 30 days of the exam will be considered on a case by case basis. Supporting documentation may be required.
For those who have been assessed eligible, you may postpone for up to 24 months. After 24 months you must go through the eligibility assessment again.
All fees paid are non-refundable. The exam fee may be transferred to another exam sitting if more than 30 days notice is given.
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E-AHPBA Post Graduate Gold Seal Liver Course – Zurich 2021
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