Thursday, 16 July 2020
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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.
Read more ...On 10.04.2020, the RBSS and BGES sent out a press release to Belgian media on the noticed decrease of appendicitis since the outbreak of the COVID-19-pandemic and hence decrease in surgical management of this disease spectrum.
Read the NL press release here.
Read the FR press release here.
Following news articles were diffused based on the press release:
Following the success and the scope of the activities set up by the RBSS since 2018, the board decided to erect the Educational Committee.
Since 2018 and continued through 2019, RBSS organised the VATS tour, the Colorectal tour, two RBSS-meets-BAST-sessions. Moreover, as our society was asked to patronise the initiation and organisation of the Belgian 'edition' of the ATLS as the national surgical scientific organisation, it was decided to entrust these activities to an educational commitee created within the RBSS.
Read more ...