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Every year, the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) organises in co-operation with the European Board of Surgery of the UEMS an examination session in surgical oncology.
Open to surgeons trained in Europe, the examination aims at certifying the level of up-to-date knowledge, skills, and general competence necessary for the optimal treatment of a cancer patient.

The examination is conducted under the supervision of the Examination Board chaired by Prof. Schlomo Schneebaum (IS), Head of the Division of Surgical Oncology, Surgical section, UEMS.

The following individuals have passed the 2009 examination organised on 23rd and 24th September in Berlin:

Christiane Bruns (DE)	Florian Fitzal (AT)
Zoltan Matrai (HU)	Konstantinos Ntatsis (GR)
Reem Ramzi Salman (IRL))	Pablo Ortega-Deballon (FR/ES)
Talal Sulaiman (KW)	Thomas Steffen (CH)
The Examination Board
From left to right: Felicitas Roelafsson, Marjut Leidenius, Karl von Smitten,Georges Vlastos, Ibrahim Edhemovic, Beate Rau, Santiago Gonzalez-Moreno, Serge Evrard, Schlomo Schneebaum.

The next EBSQ examination will be organised during the 15th ESSO Congress in Bordeaux (15-17 September 2010).

EBSQ application form (25.59 kB 2008-02-26 18:01:45).

Consult the eligibility criteria and read the guidelines carefully before submitting your application.
For any specific query contact the ESSO Secretariat.

In 2008 the following surgical oncologists passed the EBSQ examination organised during the 14th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology in The Hague (NL):

• Dr. Toufic Ata (France)
• Dr. Magdalena Baklinska (Poland)
• Dr. Kasim Behranwala (UK)
• Dr. Jose Luis Fougo (Portugal)
• Dr. Robert Rosenberg (Germany)
• Dr. Ivan Penavic (Croatia)
• Dr. Jose Pedro Silva (Portugal)
• Dr. Danko Velemir Vrdoljak (Croatia)