ENTOG exchange and meeting 2016 in Torino
The ENTOG exchange and meeting 2016 took place in Torino from 16. to 19. May.
The exchange hosted 34 exchangees from 17 countries. The exchange reports were very positive. Thank you to Federica Campolo (Local Organizing Committee) for arranging the exchange and meeting so professionally. The ENTOG exchange and meeting is ENTOG’s most important event and the positive and cheerful feedback is important for the organizers.
The ENTOG scientific meeting covered the subject “How to run a national trainee society”. The program included instructive presentations from EBCOG and WATOG (World Association of Trainees in O&G) and presentations from three member countries which are organized differently. It was rounded up with a dynamic workshop where all attendants were able to share and discuss problems and initiatives. The strong points of a trainee society were clear. The societies are easy to approach, facilitate networking among trainees and collaboration with the senior societies, and improve training in O&G. Many shared the same problems including lack of visibility, human resources, engagement and financial resources. The discussion lead to many great initiatives including being visible at meetings and courses and presenting clear benefits for the trainees, good collaboration with the senior societies and having a clear vision. We hope that people were able to bring home some ideas to their national societies.
At the ENTOG council we learned that Norway will host the EBCOG congress and ENTOG meeting in 2020. We congratulate Norway and are looking forward to the collaboration. The council minutes from Torino will be circulated to our member societies shortly for comments.
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ENTOG session
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Workshop about problems and initiatives in the national trainee socieites.
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ENTOG executive 2016-17
At the ENTOG council two executive posts were up for election. Laurids Bune (DK) and Žiga Jan (SI) stepped down after three years as treasurer and two years as webmaster respectively.
We thank Laurids for his thorough work with the ENTOG finances and Žiga Jan for establishing a new website. They will both be missed.
Many engaged candidates ran for the two executive posts at council. Thank you to them all.
After an interesting election we were able to welcome Laura Spinnewijn (NL) as treasurer and Jure Klanjšček (SI) as new webmaster.
The ENTOG executive members 2016-17 are:
Anna Aabakke(DK), President
Alexandra Kristufkova (SK), Secretary General
Laura Spinnewijn (NL), Treasurer.
Agnieszka Lemańska (PL), Member
Jure Klanjšček (SI), Member
The executive met in Ljubljana, Slovenia for their annual strategy meeting in July. It was clear that the executive members were inspired by the outcomes of the workshop at the ENTOG scientific meeting when we defined ENTOG’s key values and set our goals for the upcoming year:
ENTOG’s key values are:
-International Networking,
-Quality of Training
-Representing Trainees
It is within these that the executive has defined it’s goals for the next year; we hope to increase our visibility, improve and ease the organisational aspect of the ENTOG exchange and meeting, continue our good collaboration with EBCOG, and be actively involved in training relevant projects including the European Curriculum project and EBCOG hospital visitations.
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Goodbye to Laurids Bune (DK) and Žiga Jan (SI) and welcome to Laura Spinnewijn (NL) and Jure Klanjšček (SI).
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