Structure and Function of the ECVDI
Friday, 19 August 2011 17:17
Jimmy Saunders
Structure and function of the ECVDI (Board, committees, representatives)
A detailed description of the tasks of the Officers, other Board members, ECVDI committees and college representatives can be found in the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). This document is now for ±70% finalized.
The daily management of the College is being looked after by the Board, consisting of the President, Junior President, Secretary, Treasurer, Senior President, two members-at-large and the respective chairs of the Credentials, Education and Examination committees.
The College is made up of 4 primary committees; these are recommended by EBVS and they are permanent. They are: the Education Committee, the Credentials Committee, the Examination Committee and the Nomination Committee. Next to them, we have many secondary committees, who are mostly specific for our College.
Below, you can find a short overview of the different committees, their function and their members. In short, the roles of the respective committees and the tasks they have performed over the last year, are as follows:
Primary committees
The Education committee (actual chair: G. Seiler -
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) defines and updates the scientific knowledge required for the examination (based on the evolution of the specialization).
The Education committee publishes a syllabus and a reading list for the residents-in-training.
The syllabus is a resident study list. This list contains everything the residents have to study for the exam. The reading list is a non-exhaustive list of books and journals recommended by ECVDI. These provide additional information about the topics in the syllabus. The residents can use this list as a study aid.
The Education committee has recently produced two new syllabi (on the website for the residents starting their program till November 2011). For the moment the committee is working on two surveys: (1) a job analysis survey and (2) a survey about the future of our specialization.
The Credentials committee (actual chair: T. Schwarz -
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; new chair from 09-2011: O. Taeymans -
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) has tasks related to the training centers (accreditation and re-accreditation of training centers), the training of the residents (acceptance of formal and individual training programs, evaluation of resident training) and continuing education evaluation of Diplomates and Associate members.
The credentials committee has been working these last months on the Large Animals track (training program, update Policies & Procedures, Associate membership), the optimization of the evaluation of the resident trainings, the improvement of the documents (portfolio, CEE, ...) that are posted on the website for residents and Diplomates and the preparation of the supervisor meeting in London. Thanks to the committee members for the very hard job they did these last six months!
The Examination committee (chair: F. Mc Connell-
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) evaluates the knowledge of the candidates by organizing an examination in Diagnostic Imaging each year during one week in September/October. Except the chair and co-chair, the Examination committee consists of two groups: (a) a group of 6 members who prepare the examination and question the candidates and, (b) a question review subcommittee (chair: J. Kinns -
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) of 5 members, in charge of improving the existing questions and writing new exam questions.
For the moment the examination committee is preparing the examination that will be organized in Utrecht in September 2011. The committee is also looking into the possibility of hiring a company/institute to perform psychometric analysis of the examination and computer material and a location to take the examination in a digital way/format.
The Nomination committee (chair: J. Saunders -
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) nominates candidates for the open positions in the College. In general, the committee members try to stimulate the interest of college members for the college affairs. For a specific open position, the committee contacts college members whom they deem competent and/or collect the candidatures for positions. Normally the college members follow the hierarchy in the College, in order to insure that the most active members get the higher positions and that the college progression is linear and continuous. We hope that, in the future, there will be plenty of candidates for our open positions and that this committee will become a selection committee, instead of a nomination committee.
The ad-hoc committees, societies, representatives and Radiation Oncology add-on will be detailed in the next issue of the newsletter.
If you have any questions or comments about these committees, please feel free to contact the chair of the committee, Tobias Schwarz, Audrey Petite or me.
Jimmy Saunders,
ECVDI President
