RBSS

Dear Colleagues,

The 16^th Belgian Surgical Week will take place in Ghent, from Thursday 7^th to Saturday 9^th May 2015. This year’s scientific theme, suggested by the President, and approved by the full Board is

 Impact of Quality and Volume on Surgical Outcome in 2015

This theme will trigger off many interesting sessions prepared by the affiliated societies and sections of the RBSS.

As previous years, a plenary meeting, with conferences centred around the congress’ theme, will be held.

 The session initiated by the BAST three years ago, who will contact trainers and trainees, will elaborate a meeting dedicated to clinical cases. The selection of the cases will be performed by the BAST in collaboration with the Scientific Committee of the RBSS.

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 Besides these lectures, the scientific committee of the R.B.S.S. will organise ‘Free Paper sessions’ which are not limited to the general theme of the congress. Every topic is most welcome! Case reports will not be selected among the free papers.

 Moreover, trainees and young surgeons have the possibility to submit their free paper for the Young Investigator’s Award (rules enclosed).

This year, we propose half a day with deferred live surgery prepared by the affiliated societies and sections of the RBSS.

A session dedicated to the presentation of the 10 best posters will equally be held on Thursday at noon.

We think that these sessions are really important, not only for our trainees, but also for every senior member of the R.B.S.S., as they will give the chance for everyone to share his/her experience and they will consequently offer a good opportunity for discussion and confrontation, which is really important for the life of the R.B.S.S.

We thus encourage you to submit abstracts, via email, to the following address:

www.belsurg.org

The deadline for the submission is 28^th February 2015.

We thank you for your prompt collaboration,

Sincerely yours,

The Scientific Secretaries,

A. D’Hoore and A. De Roover