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Over 600 trainees register for 2024 Pre-Specialist Assessment and 402 participate

Over three days, 402 OMFS surgeons participated in this formative assessment (assessment for learning rather than assessment of learning).

This assessment is created by the OMFS Section of UEMS and supporting by EACMFS with an unconditional grant from Medartis.

There were 257 completing the assessment on Thursday 6th, 41 on Saturday 7th and 104 on Sunday 8th September 2024. A total of 204 registered but did not participate. This represents a 53% increase on the 262 participants in 2023.

The nations with the most participants were United Kingdom 61, Spain 60, Italy 49, Germany 42, India 42, Malaysia 23 and Belgium 20. There were 3 nations where trainees registered but did not participate.

The nations were 100% of those registered took part were Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hong Kong, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Jordan, Lithuania and Luxembourg.

The results for each participating countries with more than 4 candidates are shown in the box and whisker graph. A pdf report can be downloaded from here.

Nation

Average

Complete

Not completed

% Participation

Total

Albania

 

 

3

0%

3

Australia

80.8

5

3

63%

8

Austria

74.5

4

 

100%

4

Belgium

79.4

20

8

71%

28

Canada

84.0

1

1

50%

2

Croatia

80.7

3

 

100%

3

Cyprus

80.0

1

 

100%

1

Czech Republic

75.0

2

 

100%

2

Denmark

78.9

7

1

88%

8

Estonia

74.0

1

 

100%

1

Finland

77.2

5

1

83%

6

France

76.4

5

4

56%

9

Germany

82.2

42

14

75%

56

Greece

81.3

8

4

67%

12

Hong Kong

88.0

1

 

100%

1

Hungary

79.7

6

 

100%

6

India

73.6

42

48

47%

90

Indonesia

70.0

1

 

100%

1

Ireland

62.0

1

 

100%

1

Italy

77.8

49

18

73%

67

Japan

47.5

4

2

67%

6

Jordan

84.0

3

 

100%

3

Latvia

70.7

6

1

86%

7

Lithuania

78.0

2

 

100%

2

Luxembourg

82.0

1

 

100%

1

Malaysia

82.1

23

7

77%

30

Netherlands

74.6

7

3

70%

10

Pakistan

81.0

2

6

25%

8

Portugal

80.3

7

3

70%

10

Romania

75.0

2

1

67%

3

Russian Federation

 

 

2

0%

2

Saudi Arabia

98.0

1

2

33%

3

Slovenia

84.8

8

2

80%

10

Spain

78.8

60

24

71%

84

Sweden

86.0

1

 

100%

1

Switzerland

76.6

7

2

78%

9

Turkey

71.3

3

8

27%

11

United Kingdom

80.3

61

35

64%

96

Yemen

 

 

1

0%

1

Grand Total

78.5

402

204

66%

606

 

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