1. Centre Accreditation for subspecialty training in Head and Neck Surgery Ulrik Pedersen and the HNO group Amsterdam October 3rd, 2015

2. Aim is to establish educational institutions with the right to announce: “Approved by the UEMS-ORL Accreditation Committee”

3. Paragraphs Aim Introduction Accreditation process Monitoring and reporting Periodic review of Centre Accreditation General structure of a centre Accreditation document

4. Paragraphs (cont.) Visitation of training Centre's in ENT-HNS Name of institution Description of the institution Information of the Centre Technical Personnel Clinical activity Outpatient volume Operative ward Duty service Unexpected events Research activity Theoretical education of fellows Professional education of fellows Practical /clinical training Scientific activity of the fellows Report of the visit

5. The preliminary document has been commented by Jan Plzak and Antti Mäkitie The corrected document will be placed at our home page and will be open for further comments

6. Future There should be accreditation papers for al subspecialties We have to harmonize all the accreditation papers I propose that we use the Head and Neck document as template The aim is to collect accreditation documents from all subspecialies All these documents should be accepted by the relevant European Subspecialty Society. Working period : until next meeting in Prague 2016 It is important to have one or 2 persons from each subspecialty to handle this process in the year to come

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