ESTS Biology Club – Research Scholarship
The ESTS Biology Club in conjunction with the ESTS Committee for Research and Education (CRE) offers this year for the first time a scholarship program allowing young scientists and clinicians to visit a Host Unit in a European country with the aim of learning or getting an insight into a research technique not available in the Home Unit.
Please carefully review the submission guidelines.
We are looking forward to receiving your application until 1 March 2014.
Applications to be sent to Sue Hesford, Executive Director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The best 3 candidates will present their projects in the Biology Club session during the 22nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery in Copenhagen and the winner will be announced thereafter.
Isabelle Opitz
Gaetano Rocco
Instructions to Authors/Abstract Submission
Abstract submission – now closed
Abstract submission closed 10 January 2014
The programme committee will meet 14-15 February 2014 . The best abstracts are selected based on the average score by the reviewers from 2 rounds and allocated for presentations as oral, forum, case report, video or poster. Abstract acceptance and programme scheduling will be communicated to the corresponding author’s e-mail address early March 2014.
Full instructions:
CME Credits
The 'European Society of Thoracic Surgeons' (or) '22nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery' is accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME) to provide the following CME activity for medical specialists. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), www.uems.net
The '22nd European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery' is designated for a maximum of (or 'for up to') 21 hours of European external CME credits. Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.
Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme
Scientific Programme
2014