Law on reform of surgical training published
After several years of long discussions and thoughtfull considerations, the new training in surgery has been published in het Staatsblad/le Moniteur Belge on 15/07/2024.
With this new training curriculum, candidates from 2026 onwards will be offered training towards 4 new levels 2 of recognition (level 1: medical doctor, level 2: specialty doctor) in surgery after 6 years of training: visceral surgery, vascualr surgery, thoracic surgery and cardiac surgery.
These new regulatory changes will mark a clear difference in training of our future colleagues as the training will be compliant with the European regulatory frame work of 2005/36/EC – annex V. More work is now on the way for finalising the implementation of this reform into daily practice, as well as at the level of the recognition committees.
The official piblished texts can be consulted here (pdf, web NL, web FR).