UEMS PRM Board Awards

At the 22nd European Congress of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, the UEMS PRM Board will grant the awards to the best Oral or Poster presentations. One gold award and two special mentions will be given:

  • to young PRM specialists (up to 5 years after graduation as a PRM specialists)
  • to PRM trainees

provided that they meet the following requirements:

  1. to be Board certified
  2. to be the First or Presenting author of a scientific contribution accepted as Oral or Poster presentation to the ESPRM Congress
  3. to present their contribution during the UEMS PRM Board Award Session (in 10 minutes).

The gold awardee will receive:

  1. a diploma & a voucher for UEMS PRM Board recertification (free of certification fees)
  2. a voucher for 50% reduction of the certification or recertification fee, for the training centre the awardee has/had his training in, or he works at (awardees’ choice).

In case of two participants ex aequo, the prize of the category is doubled.

Trainees or young medical specialists awarded a “Special mention” will receive a diploma.

Board certified PRM trainees and young PRM specialists (up to 5 years after graduation) who wish to compete for the UEMS PRM Board Awards are kindly requested to apply, the latest by 1st April 2020, by sending an email to the Board Deputy Secretary Dr. Piotr Tederko at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. stating the following:

  1. Name and Surname
  2. Country
  3. Date of issue and Number of the Board Certification
  4. Title of Oral/Poster contribution accepted for presentation at the ESPRM Congress

 

The Abstract of the contribution must be attached to the email

The presentations will be evaluated by the members of the Board Jury:

  • Mauro Zampolini
  • Maria Gabriella Ceravolo
  • Nikolaos Barotsis
  • Rolf Frischknecht 
  • Aydan Oral


M.G. Ceravolo,

UEMS PRM BOARD President

UEMS PRM Section and Board General Assembly, Plovdiv, 6 - 7th Sept 2019

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UEMS PRM Section and Board (European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes Section de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Collège Européen de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation) General Assembly was held Friday 6h to Saturday 7th September 2019 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The first day has been dedicated to working groups activities.

The Board continued with certification activities of fellows, senior and life fellows, trainers, training centres, including the success of the new procedure for extraordinary certification of medical doctors, designed for non-UEMS colleagues: 17 PRM doctors have obtained certificates of Fellow of the European Board of PRM (FEBPRM), a real seal of excellence at the European level. The Online delivery of European PRM Board examination starts 29th September 2019 in all European countries in accordance to CESMA (Council of European Specialist Medical Assessment) strict rules. National managers (NMs) have been able to try and practice at the new platform during the workshop. A Feedback to NMs concerning the process of MCQ making has been given, with a short tutorial on how to produce good MCQs. Seven new scientific events were accredited since the last Board Jury meeting held in Budapest, March 2019. A detailed Survey of National and European Board Logbooks were presented and discussed with an open call to NMs to provide comments on ways to improve European Logbook and get information to agree to a minimal standard for national logbooks recommended for PRM trainees. The Board` Action Plan 2018-22: state-of-art includes the improvement of the educational materials available on the EBPRM platform, the increase of the quality of Board exam and its online delivery, the circulation of a letter addressed to the national ministries of health supporting the concept of replacing national exams with the European Board Examination. There is a call to NMs to propose more incentives to be given to Fellows to increase the perceived value of achieving/maintaining the status of Board Fellow. In order to enh ance the achievement of required standards in PRM postgraduate and continuous education, a letter to the Presidents of National Societies of PRM has been written to increase their awareness about the existence of the European Training Requirements in PRM. There are actions warranted to support continuing medical education and research in PRM field by offering e-courses on different topics relevant to the discipline, updating the e-book “PRM for Medical Students” and adding the slide collection to increase the use of the e-book in order to achieve the goal of supporting continuing medical education in PRM field. The e-learning platform (prmcollege.eu) hosts the 3rd Edition of ESWT online course. Up to now approx. 200 physicians from all over the world have attended the ESWT Course, that was organized in collaboration with ESPRM SISC for ESWT. A new edition of the ESWT course will start in December 2019. Three different European Schools were endorsed and received financial support by the Board in 2019. Both the European SCI school and the Robotic Rehabilitation Summer School (R2S2) were attended by 15 PRM trainees, who came from 12 and 13 different European countries, respectively. The European School Marseille was attended by 28 European PRM Board registered trainees. A preliminary proposal of a Balneology Summer School to be held in Portugal, to be organized in June-July 2020 was announced. Furthermore, Summer School “Rehabilitation of Pain and Pain-related Disability” was proposed.

Professional Practice Committee continued the work on the Book on Field of competences part III, with updates on papers in: Oncology, Cerebral palsy, Neurodegenerative, Neuromuscular, Sarcopenia, Multiple Sclerosis, Limb loss and Pregnancy. News of Multidisciplinary Joint Committees in: Pain medicine, Spinal surgery, Sports medicine, Manual medicine, Adolescent medicine were presented. Projects of Cochrane Rehabilitation were presented: Prioritization project, Be4rehab (part of WHO – Package of Rehabilitation Interventions project), Rehabilitation Definition and RCT in Rehabilitation Checklist project (RCTRACK). Standards for practice in Europe survey has come to a conclusion with the report to be finished. Professional Practice Committee and Clinical Affairs Committee worked together on Global roadmap for implementation of ICF across Europe, respectively: Development of an International classification system for service organisations for health related rehabilitation (ICSO-R 2.0), European Framework for rehabilitation services types (or “Framework” and associated clinical assessment schedule (CLASs), Demonstration and Cultural validation of ICF simple intuitive description based tool (ICF Rehabilitation set) - completed versions already in Italian, Polish, Belgian/Dutch, Croatian and Turkish.

Clinical Affairs Committee worked also on the Individual Rehabilitation Plan/Project and Guidelines. IRC Stroke Rehabilitation Moscow programme was supported for accreditation.

In Saturday`s morning General Assembly the report of each working group has been discussed and voted, and the Declaration of cooperation with Bulgarian Association of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine was signed. Wim Janssen has been elected as Deputy Treasurer. 

Plovdiv and Bulgaria demonstrated not only deep commitment to European PRM values but also provided the delegates with unique hospitality. Prof. Elena Ilieva, serving as Bulgarian delegate and National manager but also as Deputy Secretary for Professional Practice Committee of UEMS PRM Section, with the support of Bulgarian PRM Association`s president Prof. Tatyana Angelova and her team were excellent hosts. On behalf of all delegates, warm thanks to them and their association.

Next General Assembly is scheduled on 26th to 28th March 2020 in Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

UEMS PRM Section and Board General assembly Stockholm 2018

group stockholmUEMS PRM Section and Board(European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes Section de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Collège Européen de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation) General Assembly was held Friday 7th – Saturday 8th September 2018 in Stockholm. The first day has been dedicated to working groups activities. Saturday morning the report of each working group has been discussed and voted. The colleagues from Russia announced that their government approved the Medical Specialty in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. In the end, part of the executive committee has been elected.

Approved the European Training Requirements in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine during the UEMS Council

small etr marocToday in Marrakesh (Morocco), during the UEMS Council general assembly, the Training Requirements in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine have been approved with 26 votes in favor and one abstention. This approval is a strong step forward the progress of PRM Specialty with the European agreement. Now the action is in charge to the single countries which are committed to implementing the requirements to improve the harmonization of PRM education across Europe and the other countries involved as associate and observers.

 

UEMS PRM Section and Board General Assembly, Budapest, 22nd - 23rd March 2019

Budapest

UEMS PRM Section and Board (European Union of Medical Specialists Section of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine - Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes Section de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation, Collège Européen de Médecine Physique et de Réadaptation) General Assembly was held Friday 22nd to Saturday 23rd March 2019 in Budapest. The first day has been dedicated to working groups activities.

The Board continued with certification activities, setting-up the Requirements for extraordinary certification of medical doctors, Online delivery of European PRM Board examination 2019, License to publish the translation of the e-book for medical students, Cochrane e-book: summaries for students were approved, web-based educational activities including the ESWT online course, and promotion of European PRM Board supported schools for PRM trainees.

Professional Practice Committee continued the work on the Book on Field of competences part III, Cochrane Rehabilitation Annual report was presented along to E-book project: the second series of 25 summaries of Cochrane reviews for health managers and politicians, Global roadmap for implementation of ICF across Europe including Development of an International classification system for service organisations for health related rehabilitation (ICSO-R 2.0); and in joint session with Clinical Affairs Committee, for the Clinical Assessment Schedule (CLAS) for European Framework of Rehabilitation Services Types.

Clinical Affairs Committee, above the mentioned worked on the methodological approach to the Individual Rehabilitation Project/Plan, the development a set of guidelines, accreditation of PRM programs (Prof Iuly Treger submitted his Inpatient Stroke programme in Soroka, Israel) and in developing a PDF paper/brochure on the benefits of accreditation. Furthermore, Balneology session has been held.

In Saturday`s morning General Assembly the report of each working group has been discussed and voted; among others: to accept Action Plan of UEMS PRM Section and Board 2018-2022, and to intensify actions to change the name of the speciality „Physiotherapy“ in the Directive of recognition of professional qualifications 2006/35/EC to „Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine“. In the end, part of the Executive Committee has been elected: Elena Ilieva as Deputy secretary to Professional Practice Committee, and Rolf Frischknecht as Treasurer. 

Hungary, a vibrant hub of PRM facilitated by long and wide-spread tradition of balneology and by up-to-date Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine is strongly involved in the Section and Board through activities of Hungarian delegates and our hosts Gabor Fazekas and Zoltan Denes. Declaration of cooperation has been signed between UEMS PRM Section and Board, European Society of PRM and Hungarian Rehabilitation Society and the visit to esteemed National Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine (OORI) has demonstrated the commitment of Hungary to Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. On behalf of all delegates, warm thanks to them and their society for excellent organisation and friendly approach. 

Next General Assembly is scheduled 6th to 7th September 2019 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The Field of Competence of PRM Physicians - Part II

Following the edition of Part One of this e-book in 2014, we are happy today to introduce to all the colleagues of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine the new e-book named as Part Two. This e-book contains a part of the work done the last 4 years (2014-18) in the Professional Practice Committee of the Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Section of the European Union of Medicals Specialists (UEMS). A new methodological procedure was followed, with five Delphi rounds, for each evidenced based position paper, in a way that the recommendations in each paper reflect the consensus of the delegates of all the European countries, concerning the special field of competence to which the paper refers. This methodological procedure is presented in details in one of the papers included in this book.

Click here to download the pdf version of the book.

Click here for the flip version.