Report presented at the EFLM General Meeting Mannheim (DE), 19 June 2018

Education & Training Committee

Chair: Daria Pasalic (1st term, 2018-2019)

Chair WG Congresses and Postgraduate Education Evgenija Homsak, first term: 2017-2018

Dept. for Laboratory Diagnostics University Clinical Centre Maribor,Maribor - Slovenia

Chair WG Distance Education and e-Learning Daniel Rajdl, second term: 2018-2019

Inst. of Clinical Biochemistry and Hematology Charles University, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Chair WG Laboratory Medicine Credit Points* Patrick Twomey, first term: 2018-2019

Dept. of Clinical Chemistry St. Vincent ´s University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Chair TG European Syllabus* Ralf Lichtinghagen, first term: 2018-2019

Inst. for Clinical Chemistry Hannover Medical University, Hannover, Germany

*since the beginning of 2018

TERMS OF REFERENCES •To address the needs of EFLM National Societies in education and management skills and assist in transfer of knowledge in all areas of the profession; •To produce and ensure the quality of EFLM educational documents; •To identify current problems in education and management practices and provide solutions and guidelines on how to overcome them

Evgenjia HOMSAK Chair Slovenia 1st term: 2017-2018

Antonio BUNO SOTO Member Spain 2nd term: 2018-2019

Ciriaco CARRU Member Italy 2nd term: 2018-2019

Eser SOZMEN Member Turkey 1st term: 2018-2019

Katarzyna BERGMANN Member-Young Scientist Poland 2nd term: 2018-2019

Karine KOSOYAN Corresponding Member Russia 3rd term: 2017-2018

Michel R. LANGLOIS Corresponding Member Belgium 2nd term 2018-2019

Ivan SEBESTA Corresponding Member Czech Rep. 2nd term 2018-2019

Una ORVIM SOLVIK Corresponding Member Norway 2nd term 2018-2019

Dalius VITKUS Corresponding Member Lithuania 2nd term 2018-2019

Elizabeta TOPIC Expert/Consultant Croatia -

https://eflmlabx.eflm.eu/en

OFFERERS 10 countries: Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Netherland, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, United Kingdom 12 laboratories, 17 different practice topics: STILL NEED TO spread the database of practice providers USERS (until 28.05. 2018.)-3 2 were realised in Slovenia (University Clinic of Respiratory and Allergic Diseases Golnik 1 in Czech Republic (Institute of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics of the General University Hospital and of The First Faculty of Medicine of Charles University, Prague PROMOTION: Publication/Paper (CCLM); Presentation on Congresses, Leaflets, Webinar, presentation of demo-version, NS mailing list reminders, etc

Proposals for colaboration with IVD (EFLM-EB meeting with IVD representaives) 1)EFLM project of exchanging practice in Laboratory Medicine (EFLMLabX)

Proposals for collaboration with IVD (EFLM-EB meeting with IVD representatives) 2) EFLM Postgraduate Courses (PGC)

-"EFLM educational brand mark", that could be offered to NS for using as the educational source for organisation of their national courses/education of their national professional members. * 1-2 days long, educational, low budget (not profitable), small group (up to 50) participants) *Applicative knowledge-Workshops *Attractive for young trainees, residents, specialists *WG-CPE responsible for proposing the theme, program

1. Biostatistics in Laboratory Medicine Speakers proposal: Team 1: Ana-Maria Simundić (Zagreb, HR) and Nora Nikolac (Zagreb, HR) Team 2: (proposal in preparation)

2. How to write a good scientific and

professional article Team 1: Sverre Sandberg (Bergen, NO) and Elvar Theodorson (Linkoping, SW) Team 2: Ferruccio Ceriotti (Milan, IT) and Martina Montagnana (Verona, IT) Team 3: Paola Pezzati (Florence, IT) and Martina Zaninotto (Padova, IT)

to investigate data about previous and current practice in cooperation

between professionals or professional societies and IVD-

industry

the future plans for incorporation of The

MedTechCode

Conducting two surveys subjected to: A- EFLM NATIONAL SOCIETIES (presidents or national representatives)-25 replies B- INDIVIDUAL EFLM MEMBERSHIP (still in progress) for Health Care Professionals- HCPs and academic professionals- APs

Publish the data and specific recommandations

-Revision of the Auspices- send to EB for confirmation -Auspices given for 13 events, rejected for 3 events -Elimination of the speakers bureau (according EB recommandations) and posting the new one (to be discussed on the WG-meting prior to the GA) -On behalf of C-ET Ciraco Carru (besides the other EFLM officers Ian Watson, Merve Gungoren and Silvia Cattaneo) were involved in successfully finalized Application to become a Trusted Partner Ethical Medtech

Daniel RAJDL Chair Czech Rep. 1st term: 2016-2017

Henrique REGUENGO Member Portugal 2nd term: 2017-2018

Sanda JELISAVAC COSIC Member Croatia 1st term: 2016-2017

Ada AITA Member-Young

Scientist Italy 1st term: 2016-2017

Graham LEE Corresponding Member Ireland 2nd term: 2017-2018

Anna MERINO Corresponding Member Spain 2nd term: 2017-2018

Ali UNLU Corresponding Member Turkey 1st term: 2016-2017

•Faecal Haemoglobin: Newer Approaches to Screening and Diagnosis of Colorectal Disease 23-01-2018, 18:00 CET: Speaker: Callum G. Fraser (UK) Moderator: Sally C Benton (UK) •EFLM WG-PRE venous blood sampling project February 27 2018, 18:00 Speaker: Zorica Sumarac (SRB) Moderator: Anna Maria Simundic (HR) •Reliable estimates of biological variation 13-03-2018, 18:00 CET Speaker: Aasne Karine Aarsand (NO) Moderator: Bill Bartlett (UK) •M-protein diagnostics of Multiple Myeloma patients treated with biologics March 27 2018, 14:00 CET Speaker: Hans Jacobs (NL) Moderator: Jillian Tate

•How to perform tube validation? March 3rd 2018, 18:00 CET Speaker: Tiago Guimaraes •The role of EQA in the verification of in vitro medical diagnostics April 17th, 18:00 2018 Speaker: Federica Braga Moderator: Anne Stavelin •The order of draw May 15th 2018, 18:00 Speaker: Michael Cornes •Catheter collection September 18th 2018 Speaker: Stephen Church Moderator: Zorica Sumarac •Pre-analytical mysteries November 20 or 27 2018 Speaker: Pieter Vermeersch

year COUNT per year

MEDIAN from No. of registrations

MEDIAN from No. of attendees

MEDIAN from percentage attended

MEDIAN from No. of feedback

MEDIAN from No. of certificates

2014 2 178 59 36% 30

2015 5 127 55 44% 24

2016 6 144 34 31% 9

2017 4 255 98 35% 50 28

2018 6 136 57 42% 27 24

Total 23 144 55 37% 27 24

2019 preliminary plans • 22nd January 2019: Sepsis markers (G. Lippi, D. Roggenbuck) • 12th February 2019: Hematological analysers (Hans Hoffmann, G.

Lippi) • April 2019: Unmet clinical needs checklist (Phil Monaghan) • Harmonization of autoimmune tests (Joanna Sheldon,Tommaso

Trenti) • How should a medical laboratory specialist prepare for

accreditation according to the ISO 15189 (Diler Aslan, S. Yenice) • What Leaders and Individuals Need to Understand About

Motivation—Why it matters at the clinical laboratory? (Sedef Yenice)

• Monitoring of internal quality control system using patients’ data (Abdurrahman Coşkun)

• upgrade back office (Moodle) • improve WG-DE teamwork

• record Antalya? • missing pipelines to NS websites

• who helps? • [improve visual presentation]

• [attract more visitors/webinar attendees]

Proposals for collaboration with IVD (EFLM-EB meeting with IVD representatives) 3) Project name _E-learning platform

Terms of Reference to establish and run the EFLM system to allocate credit points for educational events.

Patrick TWOMEY Chair Ireland 1st term: 2018-2019

Mojca BOZIC MIJOVSKI Member Slovenia 1st term: 2018-2019

Evgenia KONSTA Member Greece 1st term: 2018-2019

Mehmet SENES Member Turkey 1st term: 2018-2019

Michael PERES Member-Young

Scientist France

1st term: 2018-2019

Terms of Reference *To maintain the EFLM European Syllabus; *To deliver and maintain the EFLM European Syllabus Courses; *To identify and disclose the requirements for postgraduate training in EuSpLM from the various EFLM member national societies.

Ralf Lichtinghagen Chair Germany

TO BE APPOINTED Members

• European Syllabus e-learning training topics – revision training for SpLM trainees, so called “European Syllabus Courses” • European Syllabus training topics - revision training for SpLM trainees, so called “European Syllabus Workshops”

• strictly educational (during or after specialisation training), • modularized with topics from the EFLM European Syllabus • English language (other languages on request) • Each webinar up to 1 hour • Short quiz - after lecture presentation (5-10 questions-proposal together with lecturer) • CPD points – for the participants working together with WG-LMCP (suggestion: 1 CPD point for the participation and 2 CPD points, when finished by quiz. • Proposed 12 modules: according general topics in laboratory medicine