Sunday, 20 September 2020
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Major Sponsor of the Royal Belgian Surgical Society :
UPDATE 09-09-2020
Dear Colleague,
Our Royal Belgian Society for Surgery held its on-line General Meeting (postponed due to Covid-19) on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 7.30 p.m.
The agenda of this General Meeting contained changes to the bylaws, on the one hand an extension of directorships (which already exist unofficially), and on the other hand the possibility of relief in case of force majeure such as the Covid-19 pandemic. These changes to the bylaws required the presence of two thirds of the members and a majority vote. Unfortunately, there was not enough attendance to be able to vote validly.
Our bylaws allow that in that case a second (extraordinary) General Meeting can be convened after at least fourteen days, which may deliberate and resolve validly, regardless of the number of members present or represented. The Board therefore wishes to submit the proposals for changes to the statute to this second extraordinary General Meeting, which will be organized on September 22, 2020 at 7.30 pm. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this meeting will agian only take place online, via the following link on the ZOOM platform:
https://tinyurl.com/GA2020RBSSextra
You can find the agenda as well as the proxy form in Dutch here and in French here, as required by the bylaws.
Dear Colleague,
Dear RBSS Member,
The Board of the Royal Belgian Society for Surgery invites you to the (due to Covid-19 postponed) General Meeting of our association. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this meeting will be online only on Tuesday, September 1, 2020 at 7:30 PM.
Pre-registration is mandatory via https://tinyurl.com/GA2020RBSS
Only effective members (full members and titulary members) have the right to vote. Each member entitled to vote may be represented by proxy by another member who is entitled to vote. The proxy must reach the secretariat before August 31, 2020.
As you can see in the invitation and the agenda (here in NL and here in FR), the agenda contains changes to the bylaws, on the one hand extending mandates (which already exist unofficially), on the other hand, the possibility of extension in case of force majeure such as the Covid-19 pandemic. Amendments to the bylaws require the presence of two thirds of the members and a majority vote. If the two thirds of the members are not present, a second (extraordinary) meeting will be convened after fourteen days, which may deliberate and resolve validly, regardless of the number of members present or represented.
The Board hopes to be able to welcome many of you to this General Meeting.
Please tune in regularly for more updates on the section, its members and activities!
+++++September 8th, 2020++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dear Colleague,
During the latest General Assembly of the RBSS, Sept 1st 2020, the RBSS Board announced the creation of the new Belgian Section for Thoracic Surgery (BeSTS). I would like to thank you for your messages with enthusiastic support. More than 50 surgeons signed the request to the RBSS.
The next step is the creation of the Board of this new section, which consists of 8 members including the President, the Vice-President, the General Secretary, the Treasurer, the Scientific Coordinator and three other members in accordance to the current bylaws (in attachment).
Read more ...BSW 2020 & COVID-19
Update 02.06.2020, 12h30
Dear all,
Three important messages :
1° As COVID-19 is gradually releasing it’s grip on our society, we all hope our life will slowly get back to normal - if ever - in the months to come.
The RBSS Board hopes your loved ones and yourself all managed to get through this crisis without personal damage.
You know we reluctantly have taken the decision to cancel the BSW 2020 because nobody is able to predict which confinement measures will be in place next fall.
However, we don’t want 2020 to pass up without any kind of BSW.
This is why we plan a RBSS event next fall. Call it the "BSW 2020 “light”.
So please SAVE the DATE :
- November 25-26th, 2020 : free papers (virtual)
- November 27th : one “plenary” session, (virtual)
- November 28th, 2020 : BGES-BAST-RBSS hands-on workshop, a classic by now.
The hands-on workshop will -COVID permitting- be physical. Location and timing is still to be determined.
The rest of the sessions will be digital. Platform, format and exact timing are also still to be determined.
The free paper sessions and plenary session will probably be scheduled from 5-8 PM in order to interfere as little as possible with your professional activities and private life.
The virtual plenary session will be organized in collaboration with the sections and affiliated societies and will be dedicated to the impact of COVID on our surgical practice, bearing in mind that only a limited number of presentations will be possible.
We will be glad to discuss the possibility of involving sections and affiliated societies with all their representatives on the next -virtual- extended RBSS board meeting for which the representatives will soon get an invitation.
Please note that NO new abstract submission will be organized for the BSW light ; the free papers will be selected from the already submitted abstracts.
2° The RBSS general assembly will be organized soon in a digital format. Many amendments of the RBSS’ working procedures will be proposed. More info to follow soon.
3° If everything goes well and if the proposition is supported by the General Assembly the BSW 2021 will be organized from 6-8/5/21in Antwerp.
Hopefully a “real” one. But, again, COVID 19 (20 or 21 by then) permitting. SAVE THE DATE !
Kind regards,
For the RBSS kern board,
Charles de Gheldere MD F.E.B.S.Gen.Surg.
Read more ...Dear all,
COVID-19 holds our whole world in a stranglehold.
Unlike other countries we were lucky to have the opportunity to brace before things got out of hand.
We still don’t know how hard the virus is going to hit us but at least most of our hospitals did their best to be prepared for the attack..
We are all set. Or not. Only time will tell.
With this post, we want to reach out to you and offer you some background information as well as practical tips from within the surgical community. Check this page regularly as it will be updated along with expanding global knowledge and experiences.
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