Report on the European Council of Specialist Medical Assessments (UEMS CESMA) Workshop and Meeting on the 8th and 9th December 2017 in Brussels Arthur Felice

Workshop on 08/12/2018 Workplace based assessments – Mark Westwood Setting the standards for assessments – Danny Mathysen New Domains of Assessment: Teamwork, Professionalism and Communication – Alfred Tenore 5. How we do it: Organisational aspects of the biggest European Exam" – Hugues Scipioni (Anaesthesiology) 6. How we do it: Open book exams – Jan Kuks

UEMS CESMA Meeting on the 9th December 2017 Twenty three (23) UEMS Sections were present or represented. Awarding of certificates to Boards – Danny Mathysen Elections of the UEMS CESMA Executive UEMS News – Vassilios Papalois European Board Examination in Dermatopathology: 10 years’ experience – Harald Gollnick & Claude Cuvellier Three more scientific presentations: The Global Active Learning Curriculum: a New Approach to Teaching Medicine in the 21st Century – Alfred Tenore An Integrated Examination Delivery and Management System – Lucile Castella & Florentin Thubert (CYIM) Can Clinicians and Examiners keep up to date? – Arthur Felice (Surgery)

The new UEMS CESMA Executive Mark Westwood (Cardiology, UK) was elected Chair of the CESMA for 4 years. Maeve Durkan (Endocrinology, Ireland) was elected Vice-Chair of CESMA for 4 years. Giannbattista Parigi’s tenure as CESMA Treasurer will be for another 3 years CESMA participants thanked Zeev Goldik and Alfred Tenore for their amazing work at CESMA and asked them to remain active within CESMA.

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