UEMS Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section & Board

UEMS Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section & Board

AGENDA OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Vilnius (Lithuania)
from Thursday 03rd to Saturday, 5th of September 2009.

PARTICIPANTS:

All the National Delegates of countries, which are members or associated members of UEMS.

Experts for the Board.

WEDNESDAY 02nd September, 2009.

Working Dinner of the Section Ex. Commmittee.

THURSDAY 03rd September, 2009:

13.00-14.00: Working lunch of the UEMS PRM Section & Board Executive Committee.

14.00-17.30: UEMS PRM Section & Board General Assembly (Plenary Session):

-President’s address (Alain Delarque)

-Presentation of new countries and new delegates.

-Secretary’s report & validation of Cambridge minutes (N. Christodoulou).

-Treasurer’s report (Martinus Terburg)

-President’s of the Board address and report (Franco Franchignoni)

-Clinical Affairs Committee (Georges De Korvin)

Report: new procedure. First applications. Communication in congresses and in PRM journals. Financial support. Workshop.

About the Website: Technical advices (N. Barotsis), Home page (G. de Korvin), Board (Sasa Moslavac), Clinical Affairs (G. de Korvin), Professionnal Practice(???),Other pages…

-Professional Practice Committee report (Christoph Gutenbrunner)

END OF PLENARY SESSION

19.30: Dinner: Informal.

FRIDAY 04th September, 2009:

08.30 – 17.00: Morning and afternoon: Workshops of the Board and Committees:

I. Board Agenda: Each country to ensure that they have a delegate at Board workshop.

1. Main activities and projects of the Board in the last 6 months (F. Franchignoni)

2. Discussion and validation of the new version of ‘Board Common rules of procedures’ and short report of Board Executive Committee meeting in Istanbul, June 15, 2009 (N. Christodoulou, S. Moslavac).

3. Board Certificationof PRM Specialists:

-Board Certification by Examination - next Board Examination: November 28th, 2009 (X. Michail);

-Board Certification by Equivalence and of Trainers (G. Vanderstraeten).

4. Board Certification of Training Sites (C. Marincek).

5. Board Re-Certification and CME/CPD committee for accreditation of scientific events (N.

Christodoulou).

6. The activity of our National Managers (F. Dincer).

7. Working group on Education:

-Curriculum for education in PRM (Guy Vanderstraeten),

-Educational initiatives, including E-book and cooperation with National Societies and European PRM journals (F. Franchignoni).

-Organisation of teaching programs for trainees and report on the European School Marseille

( JM Viton)

8. The activity of the Question Bank Group (J-M. Viton, S. Muñoz Lasa).

9. Board databases and S&B website (S. Moslavac).

10. CESMA activities and UEMS PRM Board position (X. Michail, J-M. Viton, G. Vanderstraeten).

11. Miscellaneous (including European Congress PRM 2010 in Venice, and budget 2009).

II. Clinical Affairs Committee Agenda:

A.Morning :

1.Presentation and discussion of the currently submitted programmes ; I expect 4 to 5 programmes (France, Slovenia, Croatia, Lituania, possibly Finland).

A. Delarque (Marseille – France): Assessment and treatment of patient with walking disabilities in a day hospital (acute care settings)
B. Rousseau (Nantes – France) and G. de Korvin (Rennes – France): PRM follow up programme after knee ligament reconstruction.
H. Damjan (Ljubljana – Slovenia) : PRM programme for children with limb amputation
S. Moslovac (Varazdinske Toplice – Croatia) :
M. Quittan (Vienna – Austria) :
A. Juocevicius (Vilnius – Lithuania):
…

2.Frequently asked questions, possible improvements to complete.

B.Afternoon :

1.European accreditation and cooperation with the National Members of the UEMS PRM Section and the National Societies of PRM.

a)Letter to the Presidents of National Societies

An official letter has been recently sent by President Alain Delarque and President Franchignionito the presidents of the National Societies, asking them for cooperation and exchanges of information, related with the UEMS PRM Section Action Plan i.e. Education, Quality of Care andFields of Competency.

b)Quality of Care Sessions in scientific congresses

ISPRM - Istanbul
SOFMER 2009 – Lyon
ESPRM – Venice
SOFMER 2010 – Marseille
…

c)Quality of Care papers and editorialsin PRM Journals

Cooperation with the Annals of PRM
Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section and Board of the European Union of Medical Specialists - Community context; history of European medical organizations; actions under way – G. de KORVIN, A. DELARQUE ; Annals of PRM – publishing in progress.
European Accreditation of PRM Programmes of Care - Objectives, Pilot Phase, Upgraded Procedure ; G. de KORVIN (France) – Draft in progress.

d)Papers about Accredited Programmes of Care in the Annals of PRM and other journals. In progress :

Assessment and treatment of patient with walking disabilities in a day hospital (acute care settings) – A. DELARQUE
PRM follow up programme after knee ligament reconstruction – B. ROUSSEAU and G. de KORVIN
PRM programme for children with brain injury – H. DAMJAN
…

2.National Recommendations and Guidelines :

a)National resources for EBM (Vladislava MIKOVA)

Taking stock of Lajos Kullmann’s survey about about National resources for EBM

b)ESPRM policy about EBM in PRM Practice (Gordana DEVERCERSKI)

Aims and goals
Current actions and further projects

c)Further steps

How to cooperate with ESPRM without overlapping ?
Cooperation with National Societies
Contacts with the Guideline International Network (GIN), which is linked to the UEMS Management Council

3.Other perspectives and projects

a)Proposals by Jacintha McELLIGOTT :

Reasons and goals (with respect to the Clin Aff action plan, the concept of programme of care, and to the European Accreditation approach)
Responsible person for each task. Any responsible person should have already participated in the Clinical Affairs workshop and be perfectly aware of our achievements and perspectives
Proposal for a working calendar

b)Motion on additional projects

We will discuss the proposals and issue a motion, which will be submitted to the Executive Committee and then, to the General Assembly.

III. Professional Practice Committee Agenda:

State of affairs of the action plan of the committee
Description of the Field of Competence – general outline
Rehabilitation Service Matrix within the framework of WHO health service matrix
Relation to ISPRM and ESPRM
State of affairs of publication of position papers
E-book on Field of Competence of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
Concept and relation to other Ebooks of Section and Board
Authorship rules
Template for chapters
Chapters
Positions Papers
Papers “Meeting health needs comprehensively”
Discussion Papers
Cooperation with other professionals in rehabilitation
Neurologists (Draft position paper)
Orthopaedic surgeons
Direct access to physiotherapists and occupational therapists
White Book on Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Europe: Corrections process.
Matters arising
Working plan of the Committee
Papers under development (time-table)
Contribution of PT to UEMS webpage

Contents of the E-book on Field of Competence of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine

Positions Papers

“FOC of PRM”

“PRM in acute settings”

“PRM in post acute rehabilitation facilities”

“PRM in long-term medical rehabilitation”

“PRM in vocational rehabilitation and social integration programs”

“Team work in PRM”

“Assessment and outcome measurement in PRM”

“Integration of new technologies into PRM programs”

Papers “Meeting health needs comprehensively”

PRM in persons with acute and chronic pain

PRM in persons with chronic musculo-skeletal health conditions

PRM in persons with traumatisms of the musculo-skeletal system

PRM in persons with acquired brain injury

PRM in persons with spinal cord injury

PRM in persons with neurodegenerative disorders

PRM in persons with internal disease (heart, vessel, lung)

PRM in metabolic disease (incl. diabetes)

PRM in persons with cancer

PRM in disabled elderly people

PRM in disabled children

Discussion Papers

PRM and sports medicine

PRM and lymphology

PRM and balneology

PRM and manual medicine

PRM and complementary and alternative medicine

17:00 - 18:30: Feedback from Board & Committees (Raporteurs)

18.30 - 19.30: Executive Committee meeting for the workshops reports

20.30-: GALA Dinner.

SATURDAY 05th September, 2009:

08.30 – 11.30: UEMS PRM Section & Board General Assembly (Plenary Session)

-Workshops reports

-Votes

-Miscellaneous.

-Working Diary :Next General Assemblies,

Marseille: Spring 2010.

Sweden: Fall 2010.

Presentation for the next meeting in Marseille.

Board working diary.