MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM GUIDELINES
Please select the following items from your normal C.V. to compose a
standardized C.V. which will be evaluated by the New Members Evaluation
Committee using the scores shown below.
Keep the same classification and numbering and start with your name and
date of birth.
CRITERION
I.
JUDGEMENT
SCORE
10 (min)
CAREER
a) Training and Boards
b) Doctorate &
Fellowships

Specialist in plastic surgery
3 pts Max 8 pts
(min 5 years training including 2 yrs rotation
in general surgery and min 5 years of practice)

Additional years in general surgery or plastic
surgical training over 6 years
1 pt/year

Passed EBOPRAS exam
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Fellowships of 7-12 months
Fellowships of 3-6 months
5 pts
2 pts each
1 pt each
Max 6 pts
Only fellowships done after completion of
plastic surgery training in:
hand surgery, microsurgery, maxillofacial or
craniofacial surgery, aesthetic surgery,
experimental research, cleft lip and palate,
vascular malformations, burns etc.
c) Special
Appointments &
Awards

Ph.D. thesis
4 pts

Invited lecturer or panellist in
each meeting or course organized
or endorsed by IPRAS, EURAPS,
IFSSH, FESSH, IFSM, FESM, ISAPS
or equivalent organizations in other
subspecialties
(Max 4 pts)
1 pt

Visiting professorship in training
centres
(Max 2 pts)
1 pt each
Max 10 pts
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d) teaching positions
e) appointments
EURAPS Young Plastic
Surgeons Scholarship winner
EURAPS or AAPS Best Paper
EURAPS/AAPS Fellowship
Hans Anderl Award
3 pts
3 pts
3 pts
3 pts

Editor, co-editor, referee or editorial board
membership in plastic surgery related journals
indexed in science Citation Index (SCI) or
Index Medicus (IM)
3 pts

Awards granted for scientific
1 pt
achievement by a national scientific medical
society

Awards granted for scientific
2 pts
achievement by international scientific
medical societies or organizations

Assistant professor or lecturer
in plastic surgery

Associate professor or
consultant in plastic surgery (UK)
2 pts

Full professor in plastic surgery
3 pts

Chief of service
(with a min of 3 staff members)
1 pt

Chief of university program
2 pts

National representative
(IPRAS, EBOPRAS)
2 pts

Past or present Secretary General or President
of National Plastic Surgery Society
2 pts
1 pt
Max 3 pts
Max 3 pts
II.
PUBLICATIONS
10 (min)
50 (max)
1) Author of a clinical or experimental
A list of the indexed
journals and the most
recent ISI impact factors
will be circulated by the
chairman of the
membership committee to
the members of the
committee and secretary
general, each year before
the evaluation process
research article or a review article in a refereed
journal in the field of plastic surgery or its
subspecialties (hand, microsurgery,
craniomaxillofacial surgery, burns, aesthetic
surgery, trauma, cleft lip and palate) or in a
surgical journal but with a relevant subject
heading of the article. The journal must be
indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) or
Index Medicus (IM)
a) Journals with an impact factor ≥ 0.8
 First author
3.0 pts
 Second or lesser
1.0 pt
b) Journals with an impact factor < 0.8
 First author
1.5 pts
 Second or lesser
0.5 pt
2) Author of a clinical case report, idea or
innovation or a technical note in a refereed
journal in the field of plastic surgery or its
subspecialties (hand, microsurgery,
craniomaxillofacial surgery, burns, aesthetic
surgery, trauma, cleft lip and palate) or in a
surgical journal but with a relevant subject
heading of the article. The journal must be
indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) or
Index Medicus (IM)
a) Journals with an impact factor ≥ 0.8
 First author
1.0 pt
 Second or lesser author
0.5 pt
b) Journals with an impact factor < 0.8
 First author
0.75 pt
 Second author
0.40 pt
Min 10 pts
must be
obtained from
the type of
publications
defined in
article 1
3) Editor of a plastic surgery textbook or
author of a plastic surgery chapter in a
medical textbook written in English
a) Editor
b) First author
c) Second or lesser author
8.0 pts
4.0 pts
2.0 pts
4) Editor of a plastic surgery textbook or
author of a plastic surgery chapter in a
medical textbook written in other languages
a) Editor
b) First author
b) Second or lesser author
4.0 pts
2.0 pts
1.0 pt
III. Contributions
to EURAPS
meetings
5 (min)

First author/presenter of paper
3.0 – 5.0 pts/pres*
 Co-author of EURAPS paper
2 pts/pres
 Attendance without first authorship
1 pt/year
* score by ad hoc committee > 42 5 pts (3.0 pts)
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: 38-41 4 pts (2.5 pts)
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: 33-37 3 pts (2.0 pts)
IV. Presentations
at other meetings
5 (min)
10 (max)
1. Presentations at the meetings of IPRAS,
IFSSH, FESSH, IFSM, FESM, ISCS,
ISAPS or equivalent international
organizations in other subspecialties
 First author
 Second author or lesser
0.5 pt
0.3 pt
2. Presentations at national society
meetings
 First author
 Second author or lesser
Max 8 pts
0.3 pt
0.2 pt
Max 2 pts