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Federation of Orthopaedics and Traumatology Trainees in Europe FORTE Road Map for 2014 2015 Written by: João Vide, MD FORTE President Date: June 11 th , 2015
F e d e r a t i o n o f O r t h o p a e d i c s a n d T r a u m a t o l o g y T r a i n e e s i n E u r o p e
FORTE Road Map for 2014 -‐ 2015
08 Fall
Written by: João Vide, MD FORTE President
Date: June 11th, 2015
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Index
1. Introduction 3 2. FORTE Board 4
2.1 Executive Committee 4 2.2 Board of Directors
2.2.1. Membership Committee 2.2.2. Social Media & Communication Committee 2.2.3. Congress Scientific Advisory Committee 2.2.4. Finance Committee 2.2.5. Constitutional & Bylaws Committee 2.2.6. Educational & Fellowship Committee 2.2.7. FORTE/BJJ Editorial Committee 2.2.8. National Representatives 2.2.9. Summer School Task Force
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3. Final Considerations 13
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1. Introduction The Federation of Orthopaedic Trainees in Europe (FORTE), was brought to life during the EFORT Congress of 2005, in Lisbon (Portugal). Since then numerous Presidents have strived to achieve FORTE ultimate goals – improvement of orthopaedic educational standards, enabling learning opportunities and promotion of colleagues network: 2006: Marina van Rhee (NL) 2007: Marina van Rhee (NL) 2008: Dirk-Jan Hofstee (NL) 2009: Dirk-Jan Hofstee (NL) 2010: Michiel Janssen (NL) 2011: Enis Guryel (UK) 2012: Bram Hentaneer (NL) 2013: Nikolaos Paschos (GR) 2014: Gazi Huri (TR) 2015 Joao Vide (PT) I have the privilege to be the new elected President and I’m excited with the opportunities that now arise for our Federation. I really feel that we can make a difference for the future and that FORTE will keep on improving standards, long before I’m gone. At least, I’ll do my best for it. This document intends to be an introduction for all the board members that are new to our Federation, which is the majority of our current board. Almost all our previous board members are still present this year, but we had a general feeling that more manpower, with a wider representation between different countries, was needed to properly develop a functioning Federation. So we grew. I’m proud to say, that our current board includes representation from most European countries: Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom are duly represented in our board. Of course bigger is better, if organized. So our Executive Committee (ExCom) has developed a working basis (Internal Regulation #1/2015) to keep track of progress and identify areas/members with difficulty progressing with work. Everyone is welcome in our Federation, but only the ones willing to help will stay. No direct financial benefit comes from the positions you take inside the board. Benefits come from networking with different experts, residents and institutions throughout Europe and from the sense of well being that comes from making things better. That’s why friendship is a
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highlighted value in FORTE constitution and that’s the least I expect from this new board – an honest and healthy friendship. In the following pages you will learn about our Board, each ones tasks, and how FORTE operates. Please don’t miss out reading our Constitution and if you still have questions, refer to one of the ExCom members.
2. FORTE Board 2.1 Executive Committee (ExCom) Executive Committee is the body responsible for defining plans of action, presenting decisions to the Board of Directors, and taking ultimate action on pressing matters (for more details on duties and powers of the ExCom please refer to the FORTE Constitution). The new ExCom is constituted by:
President João Vide, MD Portugal 6th year Orthopaedic & Trauma Resident Centro Hospitalar do Algarve, Faro, Portugal [email protected]
Immediate Past President Gazi Huri, MD Turkey Orthopaedics & Traumatology Department, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey [email protected]
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Secretary General Nikolaos Paschos, MD, PhD Greece / USA Orthopaedics & Biomedical Engineering University of California Davis, Davis USA [email protected]
President-Elect Tommaso Bonanzinga, MD Italy Instituto Ortopedico Rizzoli University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy [email protected]
Treasurer Luís Machado, MD Portugal 3rd year Orthopaedic & Trauma Resident Hospital de Leiria, Leiria, Portugal [email protected]
2.2 Board of Directors (BOD) BOD includes the ExCom, all the members of our Committees and our National Representatives. This is our voting body, which will decide on the majority of FORTE’s issues (for more details on duties and powers of the BOD please refer to the FORTE Constitution). Committee members that are not eligible for active membership revoke their right to vote. 2.2.1 Membership Committee This Committee is responsible for gathering, processing and organizing all information regarding our members. The chair of this Committee is responsible for coordination of its members and FORTE national representatives, national societies, national residents societies, specialty societies, providing accurate information to the Financial Committee and our Secretary.
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Chair (= Sec General)
Nikolaos Paschos (Greece)
Members Anze Mihelic (Slovenia) [email protected] Alberto Grassi (Italy) [email protected] André Couto (Portugal)
Charles Riviére (France)
Esten Haanaes (Norway)
Safa Gursoy (Turkey) [email protected] Tadija Petrovic (Croatia)
Vishal Paringe (UK) [email protected] Yousif Naser (Slovakia) [email protected] Yosef Tyson (Sweden) [email protected]
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Create an updated database Create an updated database of all our members, contact people in the National Societies, National Residents Societies and Specialty Societies. The Committee may rely on the help of members from different countries to assist in the retrieval of all data. This information is to be sent to the Secretary General, Treasurer and all ExCom members. Deadline: End of August 2015. 2.2.2 Social Media & Communication Committee This Committee is responsible for our social channels updates: facebook, twitter and website. The chair is responsible for setting proper schedule for constant updates, and to transmit information to upload provided by other Committees. This Committee may have a role in other FORTE publications as well, such as educational publications, working close to the Educational & Fellowship Committee, or advertisement of FORTE or endorsed events. Chair Danny Ryan (UK) [email protected] Members Safa Gursoy (Turkey) [email protected]
Pieter van Egmond (Netherlands)
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v Current Duties and Deadlines
1 – Create a schedule for content production A schedule to delegate responsibility for educational, scientific or other resident interest contents has to be made, and knowledge given to the ExCom. Deadline: July 15th, 2015. 2.2.3 Congress Scientific Advisory Committee This Committee is responsible for organizing FORTE’s activities in every congress were FORTE acts as an invited society, with particular relevance in each year’s EFORT congress. Chair (President-elect)
Tommaso Bonanzinga (Italy)
Members Nikolaos Paschos (Greece)
Ariane Gerber Popp (Switzerland)
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Organize FORTE Residents Session Together with EFORT Science & Education Manager (Diana Orejuela - [email protected]) plan our participation in the congress. Special care must be provided to the schedule of our meeting – it shouldn’t be in the beginning or at the end of the Congress, and should allow for the General Assembly to be made after the Session in the same room. Other critical point is abstract submission. Dates must be defined now, so advertisement and participation may be maximized. Deadline: General structure and setting of dates until de the end of September 2015. 2.2.4 Finance Committee This Committee is responsible for collecting our membership fees, based on the information provided by the Membership Committee. It is also responsible for proposing plans to enhance revenue, such as
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applications to grants or funds. The committee will manage our bank accounts, give green light together with ExCom, to every expense – publicity, printing, representation, etc. Chair (Treasurer)
Luís Machado (Portugal)
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Set FORTE new office At this year’s EFORT congress, it was agreed by EFORT's CEO – Mr. Adrian Ott (CH), that FORTE could have their office shared with EFORT, which would include basic secretary support (open, digitalize and email letters addressed to FORTE) as well as guidance with legal issues and bank account, although process costs outside EFORT have to be supported by us. In parallel negotiation with other Specialty Societies, FORTE was proposed to join other 4 Specialty Societies, in a shared office in Rolle (same building as EFORT), with full secretary, legal and financial support. Cost are still in negotiation, and it was agreed with Dr. Cassiano Neves (PT), that action from FORTE would be withheld until mid of June, time were terms from the Specialty Societies would be presented. If terms are not present or meet our possibilities, contact with Mr. Adrian Ott shall be done in order to establish a new FORTE headquarters with EFORT support, which is a pressing matter. Deadline: End of June 2015. 2 – Collect Membership Fees Discuss with FORTE ExCom the membership value per resident for 2015. Send invoice for National Societies. Deadline: One month after Membership Committee has provided information. 3 – Propose plans for acquiring further revenue Elaborate a list of institutions, societies and grant applications that FORTE can apply to. Deadline: End of August 2015. 2.2.5 Constitutional & Bylaws Committee This Committee is responsible to evaluate and propose changes in the Constitution and elaborate Internal regulations when needed. Chair (Imm. Past Pres.)
Gazi Huri (Turkey)
Members João Vide (Portugal) [email protected] Nikolaos Paschos [email protected]
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(Greece) 2.2.6 Educational & Fellowship Committee This Committee is responsible for elaborating proposals for educational events, collaborate on the development of the scientific content of the sessions provided by FORTE in the different congress, collaborate with the Social Media & Communication Committee providing educational content for the different channels, search, develop and organize fellowship programs and generally have an active participation in any educational activity. Chair Gazi Huri (Turkey) [email protected] Members Danny Ryan (UK) [email protected]
Ivan Bohacek (Croatia)
Kostas Anagnostakos (Greece)
Kurstein Sant (Malta) [email protected] Luís Machado (Portugal)*
Mustafa Akkaya (Turkey)
Rami Madanat (Finland)
Stjepan Dokuzovic (Croatia)
Peter Mahieu (Belgium) [email protected] Tommaso Bonanzinga (Italy)
Vishal Paringe (UK) [email protected] Eduardo Gardella (Spain)
*UEMS Delegate
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Build Fellowship Program Search for available fellowship positions, with specific purpose and well delineated program, as well as financial support if possible. Programs must be presented to Board of Directors in General Assembly, were decision will made upon. Deadline: Proposals by end of January 2016. Discussion in the General Assembly held at February 2016.
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2 – Build Fellowship Database Contact societies providing fellowship programs to gather authorization to collect information about their fellowship programs, to create an “European Fellowship Database”. Deadline: End of December 2015. 3 – Search for opportunities to establish FORTE Resident Session Contact National Societies, National Resident Societies and Specialty Societies to present them the opportunity to have a FORTE Resident Session. Resident Sessions will be a joined activity of the Educational & Fellowship Committee with the Congress Scientific Advisory Committee. Deadline: Monthly updates to FORTE ExCom. 2.2.7 FORTE/BJJ Editorial Board Committee This Committee is responsible for proposing, reviewing and creating quality reviews for the new journal EFORT Open Reviews, part of the BJJ collection. We act as an independent board inside the Editorial Board. New members may be added or co-opted to the Committee, as duties increase. Chair Nikolaos Paschos
(Greece) [email protected]
Members Gazi Huri (Turkey) [email protected] João Vide (Portugal) [email protected] Luís Machado (Portugal)
Tommaso Bonanzinga (Italy)
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Start collaboration Define initial proposals for reviews, themes and leading persons. Deadline: Proposals by end of September 2015. 2.2.8 National Representatives This National Representatives are our bridge to the country they represent. Whenever suitable, they are the presidents of their national residents association. They must work close to our Membership
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Committee, to provide the necessary information about training conditions, number of residents, etc, and act as a gathering element with their National Association. National Representatives may be included in other Committees or selected tasks, as they manifest interest. Although we’ve reached most of the European residents, we’re still lacking representation in many countries. All members of the Board of Directors should strive to accomplish representatives from all countries. Albania (missing) Austria (missing) Belarus (missing) Belgium Thomas Tampere [email protected] Bosnia Herzgovina
(missing)
Bulgaria (missing) Croatia Tadija Petrovic [email protected] Cyprus Andreas Roushias orthopaedicsdoctor@googlem
ail.com Czech Republic
Robert Juzek [email protected]
Denmark Bjarke Viberg [email protected]
Estonia (missing) Finland Kari Salo [email protected] France Nicolas Reina [email protected] Germany (missing) Greece Kostas Anagnostakos [email protected] Hungary (missing) Iceland (missing) Ireland Joe Baker [email protected] Italy Tommaso Bonanzinga [email protected] Kosovo Bujar Shabani [email protected] Latvia (missing) Lithuania (missing) Luxemburg (missing) Macedonia Velimir Dimitrioski [email protected] Malta Kurstein Sant [email protected] Montenegro (missing) Netherlands Alexander Voordijk [email protected] Norway Kjartan Koi [email protected] Poland (missing) Portugal André Couto [email protected] Romania (missing) Russia (missing)
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Serbia (missing) Slovakia Yousef Naser [email protected] Slovenia Anze Mihelic [email protected] Spain Eduardo Gardella [email protected] Sweden Marie Leksell [email protected] Switzerland Ariane Gerber Popp [email protected] Turkey Safa Gursoy [email protected] Ukraine (missing) UK Mustafa Rashid [email protected]
v Current Duties and Deadlines 1 – Provide Information to the Membership Committee Information to provide to the Membership Committee:
- Board members names and emails of the National Society and Residents National Societies;
- Residents names, affiliations and emails. Deadline: August 15th, 2015. 2 – Creation of National Residents Societies National Representatives of a country without a Residents Association may propose the constitution of a Residents Association for their country. Proposals will be voted by the Board of Directors, and if accepted, FORTE will assist in the creation of such associations. Deadline: Proposals by mid January, 2016. Voting in the General Assembly, held in February 2016. 2.2.9 Summer School Task Force Summer School is FORTE’s new project, that will represent a huge leap in terms of representation, network will provide an unique educational opportunity for residents throughout Europe. The beginning of any project is always challenging, so FORTE created a special task force for this project. For further details in the project, please refer to the document of the FORTE Summer School Project.
Chair João Vide (Portugal) [email protected] Members Acácio Ramos
(Portugal) [email protected]
André Couto (Portugal)
Caglar Yilgor (Turkey) [email protected] Charles Riviére (France)
Danny Ryan (UK) [email protected]
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Filippo Familiari (Italy) [email protected] Gazi Huri (Turkey) [email protected] Kurstein Sant (Malta) [email protected] Luís Machado (Portugal)
Miguel Lopes (Portugal)
Nikolaos Paschos (Greece)
Rami Madanat (Finland)
Safa Gursoy (Turkey) [email protected] Stjepan Dokuzovic (Croatia)
Tommaso Bonanzinga (Italy)
3. Final Comments This document sets the goals and provides the starting point for this year’s purposes. In the next days, email discussion groups will be started to initiate progression with work. Please keep a close connection with all members and try and gather interested and dynamic new members for our Board, specially from countries that are not yet represented in this Board. Go strong, go FORTE!
Your truly,
João Vide, MD
(FORTE President)
