It is accepted that this condition may not be treated by Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeons throughout Europe. Supervised by the experienced EFAS faculty, participants of the courses will practice their techniques on cadavers. It is EFAS’s responsibility to share our knowledge in regions where foot and ankle surgery is still emerging. Our collaboration with AOFAS is now entering its third year, and we have received requests from other associations to establish cooperative agreements. In the past two years, I have had the opportunity to represent EFAS at our members’ congresses as well as at several international meetings.
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During the second session titled “Pearls of Wisdom,” senior surgeons would share their journeys and experience. The 3rd session would be an interactive case-based discussion session so that everyone can learn something from it. The EFAS Foundation is seeking industry and individual financial support in order to sustain its activities. Its main purpose is to promote research, education, knowledge transfer, treatment quality, patient safety, innovation, and charity of EFAS and the Foot & Ankle medicine.
All documents relevant to the online hearing must be filed using the eDocs Portal no later than three working days before the hearing. Online hearings are enabled by the video conferencing technology supported by Cisco Webex (Webex). Webex supports video calls by web browser or application on a laptop, tablet or phone. It is important that you familiarise yourself with the Webex platform and its functionality. The soil layers information is in the variable soil depth, which gives the depth of the bottom of each layer from the surface.
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However, candidates will be expected to maintain a high standard of knowledge and practical skills in the field of Trauma and Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery. To run the parameter optimisation procedure, the LISFLOOD model was run at 6-hourly steps everywhere. However, the objective function (or goodness-of-fit measure) was calculated over a daily-aggregated time series for calibration points with daily observations, to allow a fair comparison between simulated and observed discharge data.
The selection procedure produced a list of 1,137 calibration stations in 215 different catchments, 406 with 6‑hourly and 731 with daily observed discharge time series. For EFAS 4, the LISFLOOD domain area was slightly extended to include the Jordan catchment. The river network in the Balkans was also improved to better represent physical rivers in the region, with updates to the channels’ geometry reflecting the changes done to the drainage network. Compared to the previous EFAS 3 version, three additional reservoirs were added on the Sava river downstream of Zagreb to better represent the effects of large retention areas.
– Vi kjøper store deler av det vi produserer fra EFAS. Elektromuffer, rørdeler og ventiler.
In this example the hedge is eligible to be claimed as an EFA hedge as the hedge is greater than 20 metres in length and it is within five metres of arable land. Education is the foundation for strong academic and clinical excellence in audiology. One of the visions for EFAS during my presidency is to enhance the visibility and understanding of the structure of audiology education across various universities in Europe. We must also foster interdisciplinary education, combining theoretical knowledge with practical experience to better reflect the real-world complexities of hearing care. EFAS is committed to supporting this vision by working closely with the national representatives of EFAS and academic institutions worldwide. Knowledge of the presentation, radiological and pathological features, treatment and outcome for common benign and malignant tumours in the foot and ankle.
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Ebru Zeren, Senior Audiologist, Audiology Department, Mid and South Essex University Hospitals GroupI had an incredible opportunity to attend the 17th Congress of the European Federation of Audiology Societies (EFAS), held in the heart of Vienna, Austria. The event took place at the stunning Palais Niederösterreich, a 16th-century Baroque palace rich in history and elegance. Situated between Vienna’s iconic St Stephen’s Cathedral and City Hall, the venue offered a unique blend of tradition and innovation, combining classical beauty with state-of-the-art facilities.The scientific content of the congress was equally outstanding. Topics included the use of artificial intelligence in hearing aids and tinnitus management, innovations in tele-audiology, and advances in cochlear implantation.The congress opened with a focus on the transformative role of artificial intelligence in audiology.
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If part of your holding is certified as organic or in organic conversion, the claimed areas that are not certified as organic or in organic conversion need to be considered for your EFA requirements. I would also like to acknowledge Prof. Georg Sprinzl and his outstanding team for the excellent coordination and organization of the 17th EFAS Congress in Vienna. Furthermore, I look forward to working closely with Dr. Tobias Neher to organize the 18th EFAS congress in Odense, Denmark, in 2027. These would include Basic Instructional Courses, Cadaver Courses or the Annual Meeting/Advanced Instructional Course.
What counts as arable land?
- For EFAS 4, the LISFLOOD domain area was slightly extended to include the Jordan catchment.
- Please note – these are indicative examples to help you when considering your EFA requirements.
- Farmer A can claim either EFAH50 in both of the parcels or claim EFAH100 in one of the parcels.
- Individual Global Members enjoy all membership benefits, but are not eligible to vote at the General Assembly or be elected to Council.
- Medico- legally, or through revalidation and recertification/licence conditions it may not be recognised initially in individual countries.
- BOFAS has entered a partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and together we have created a combined set of standards, including recommended criteria to be met by both the unit seeking approval for a fellowship programme, and by the fellow.
- Other sessions explored auditory training methods, broadband hearing aid amplification, and innovative tools like the Tinnometer to tailor tinnitus therapies to individual needs.Overall, EFAS 2025 was a remarkable professional and cultural experience.
Both EFA itself as well as the Forum Alpbach Network (FAN) award around 350 scholarships to first-time participants. The two weeks in summer are a unique experience for this selected group of people, providing thought-provoking content as well as inspiring encounters with decision-makers and other generations of passionate Europeans. MEMBERSHIPEFAS is open for membership for national societies of audiology in the European countries. Each member nation shall be represented by a single Voting Representative and by two Non-Voting Representatives, appointed by the respective national audiology society if available. For a country without a national audiology society, the Board may accept as a temporary alternative another professional society or entity, which is actively engaged in audiology. Since 2011, EFAS is part of the Copernicus emergency management service and has been transferred to operational service in 2012.
Others vary from one area to another based on changes in climatology and physical factors, e.g. hydraulic soil properties. Some model parameters require calibration, which is generally obtained by tuning parameter values based on a comparison between simulated and observed discharge (Q) at river gauges. This tuning process generally aims to minimise errors in the volume and timing of simulated flow over a multi-year period.
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If you are an an individual with strong commitment to foot and ankle surgery residing and working outside of Europe, you may apply for this membership type. Any time-varying data (i.e. River discharge in the last 6 or 24 hours, snow depth water equivalent, and volumetric soil moisture) that has been downloaded using this tool is not located at the correct position on the river network when compared to the upstream area data. Therefore, data previously downloaded using the sub-setting tool should be disregarded and users should download the dataset of interest again over the full EFAS domain. The Youth Committee is composed of 9 young foot and ankle surgeons from different countries, but participation is open to anyone interested in becoming more involved with EFAS.
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We are also advancing our collaboration with various national associations to homologate their curricula. The remit of this bulletin is to create a global platform for sharing hot topics, news, and events related to foot and ankle conditions. To that effect, BOFAS has partnered with other international foot and ankle societies. Members of the partner societies can access Foot Print by using the links below.
Once a candidate has been accepted for examination the following process will occur, preceding the biennial meeting or advanced instructional course. Now is the perfect time to plan and set the milestones we aim to conquer in 2025. Enhance your skills, expand your professional network, and gain valuable international experience. Please use the shortcuts in the table of contents below to browse the content or the page tree to the left to navigate directly to the section of interest.
Validating a new score in different languages requires language-specific validation, not just the translation of an already validated score into another language. Therefore, validation in particular has been a very elaboratestatistical process involving more than 6,000 questionnaires of different languages. In 2018, development and validation of the EFAS Score was completed in 7 languages (Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Swedish, Polish). The Finnish and Turkish score versions followed 2020, the Persian version 2021, the Portuguese version 2022, the Spanish and Estonian versions 2023, the Danish version in 2024 and the Mandarin and Cantonese version 2025. In this example the hedge is eligible to be claimed as an EFA hedge as it is within five metres of arable land and although the hedge is outside the field it is under the control/responsibility of the farmer and is adjacent to the BPS claimed field.
After this term the Past Chairperson can be a member of the search committee. The Board may co-opt additional members, without voting rights, for specific purposes, e.g. in relation to European Conferences on Audiology, or to help liaise with other organizations. The Board shall be responsible for managing the affairs of EFAS according to the general policy decided by the Committee of Representatives, and take initiatives to promote audiology in Europe. These accounts are to be submitted to the Auditors yearly at least one month before the General Assembly. SECRETARY-GENERALThe Secretary-General of EFAS shall be responsible for keeping an updated list of membership and representatives, records of all the activities of EFAS and the Board, and managing the distribution of information to representatives and members.
- Our barrier can become impaired due to many intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
- A hedge is measured in metres and must be a minimum length of 20 metres to be claimed.
- If you are a foot and ankle surgeon residing and working in a European country where there is no EFAS-affiliated National Society, you may apply for this membership type by choosing respective option below.
- Benefit from reduced rates to all EFAS courses and events and meet fellow surgeons.
- EFAS offer a comprehensive, business and legal advice service, along with expert, professional representation when dealing with lease and finance companies.
- This offered information on nested catchments, which is very important for a distributed hydrological model calibration.
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Email votes should be received at the EFAS Secretary-General 24h before the GA. When votes are tied, the Board members will make the final decision during the General Assembly. To supplement training in fellowships we introduced the annual Advanced Foot and Ankle Forum (AFAF) in 2016, a 3-day meeting specifically designed for UK Foot and Ankle Fellows, which has been a huge success and has triggered the creation of similar courses elsewhere. Attendance is by invitation only, but all UK fellows are automatically invited once registered, so please ensure your name is entered on the registry here to gain access to this and other courses such as the New Consultants Course. The EFAS Research Foundation provides further research support by giving the “EFAS Research Award – for Clinical and Basic Science” at EFAS annual conference.
NAMEThe European Federation of Audiology Societies, EFAS, is a non-profit organization, formed as a federation for national audiology societies in the European countries. Audiology is defined as the science of hearing and the alleviation of the effects of disorders of the auditory system. The countries eligible to be part of EFAS are as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO). The unit for soil depth in this case (i.e. using LISFLOOD model for EFAS) should be millimetres (mm). You interpretation on how the depth is defined is correct; the file gives the depth of the bottom of each layer from the surface – the soil depth for layer 1 goes to 50 mm and the soil depth for layer 2 goes till 1400 mm, and so on.
The EFAS Matrix allows organizations to prioritize external factors based on their importance and impact, providing a structured framework for decision-making. On the other hand, SWOT Analysis offers a more comprehensive assessment of an organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, allowing for a deeper understanding of the factors that may influence strategic decisions. One of the key advantages of SWOT Analysis is its holistic approach to strategic planning. By considering both internal and external factors, organizations can gain a more comprehensive understanding of their current situation and future prospects.
Overall, EFAS 4 shows a marked improvement in the hydrological performance compared with EFAS 3, with more stations achieving a higher KGE’ score as shown by the cumulative distribution function. About 60% of stations have a KGE’ of 0.75 or higher, against only 40% for EFAS 3 (Figure 5a). Improvements are found over most of the EFAS domain, with the exception of some stations in Scandinavia, Spain and central Europe (Figure 5b).
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In addition, the Education Committee has been looking at ways to provide a more robust system of ensuring that both Fellowship trainers and Fellowship trainees are meeting the required criteria. These courses are aimed at Higher Surgical Trainees / ST3 onwards and are designed to teach the core of Foot and Ankle surgery in an informal and interactive environment. The emphasis is on clinical examination cases, discussion groups and typical day-to-day clinic scenarios. Although not an exam preparation course, content is taught to the standard expected EFAS Forum in the FRCS(Tr & Orth) exam; that of a day-one non-specialist orthopaedic consultant.
This does not seem realistic, as I have never seen a hydrological model or a land surface model working with these high depths of soil, unless the focus is on the deep layers. The European Foot and Ankle Society (EFAS) underscores that surgical procedures on the foot and ankle should only be performed by medically trained surgeons who are fully accountable for their treatment decisions and outcomes. The purpose of the Education Committee is to provide high quality training to foot and ankle surgeons from across Europe and beyond. Logbook A complete logbook of surgical cases shall be required preferably electronically for ratification by the examination board before proceeding to the examination. Knowledge Base and Practical Skills This is discussed and clarified in detail in the section on Curriculum.
This dual calibration strategy (both at 6‑hourly and daily time steps) was critical to guarantee the best possible geographical coverage as 6‑hourly river discharge data was not available everywhere. Stations where a minimum of four years of good-quality discharge data were available were selected as calibration points. By upgrading the full EFAS medium-range modelling chain to a 6‑hourly timestep, all forcing fields, including observed meteorological data to simulate initial conditions, needed to also be produced at the finer time step. For the LISFLOOD model, this includes gridded maps of precipitation, average air temperature, evaporation rate from free water surface and bare soil surface, and potential evapotranspiration for reference crop surfaces. EFAS is an operational pan-European flood forecasting system funded by the European Commission through its Copernicus programme.
Data from more than 1,800 active stations are collected on a 24/7 basis either as water levels and/or discharge at different temporal resolution, then quality checked and resampled at 1-, 6- and 24‑hour time steps. Water level data are transformed to discharge data (the information which is required by LISFLOOD) when rating curves are provided by EFAS partners. LISFLOOD is a fully distributed hydrological model, which explicitly considers the spatial distribution of physical properties across catchments and provides estimates of river discharge on the entire geographical domain. Driven by meteorological forcing data (precipitation, temperature, potential evapotranspiration, and evaporation rates for open water and bare soil surfaces), LISFLOOD calculates a complete water balance for every grid cell within the EFAS domain, currently on a 5×5 km grid. Processes simulated include snowmelt, soil freezing, surface runoff, infiltration into the soil, preferential flow, redistribution of soil moisture within the soil profile, drainage of water to the groundwater system, groundwater storage, and groundwater base flow. Runoff produced for every grid cell is then routed through the river network using a kinematic wave approach.
Supported by the EFAS Research Committee, the EFAS Research Foundation enables research and scientific work of EFAS and Foot & Ankle area, including all sub-areas of Foot & Ankle, as basic science, biomechanics, epidemiology, clinics, surgery, outcome, radiology, and others. EFAS 4.2 mainly concerns the addition of new hydrological river discharge stations in relevant layers, wtih additional improvements and general bug fixes. If you are a foot and ankle surgeon residing and working in a European country, you may apply for this membership type by choosing respective option below. A set of 14 model parameters was selected for calibration following recommendations from previous work on the LISFLOOD model and its application to EFAS. The parameters control snow accumulation and snow melting, overland flow, percolation to the lower groundwater zone, the residence time of the upper and lower groundwater zone, lakes, reservoirs and channel routing.
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