The ESMO Examination Working Group is a satellite of the Educational Steering Committee. It is in charge of preparing the ESMO Examination which certifies that a medical oncologist possesses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential for providing care to cancer patients.

Prof. Richard Herrmann

• Selecting exam questions
• Supervising exam sessions
• Analyzing exam results
• Awarding the ESMO certificate of medical oncology to successful participants

2010	Highest registration number 275 in five simultaneous sessions Implementation of the online trial examination ESMO examination accredited with 50 CME points
2009	20th Anniversary ESMO Exam
2006	Major participants in 3 sessions – Bern, Frankfurt and Istanbul - 213
2005	Possibility to arrange parallel sessions in regions outside of Europe
2005	Belgium Society of Medical Oncology joins the German Society AIO and requires ESMO Examination for Full society membership
2004	Slovenia joins Switzerland and Germany in recognizing ESMO Exam as national oncology examination
2002	Exam Award
2000	180 participants over five (5) simultaneous sessions in Hamburg, Frankfurt, Bern, Buenos Aires and Brazil
1989	First Exam session, London, United Kingdom

NAME	COUNTRY	FUNCTION
Richard Herrmann	Switzerland	Chair
Johanna W. Baars	Netherlands	Committee Member
Giannicola D'Addario	Switzerland	Committee Member
Cornelius Waller	Germany	Committee Member
Ralph Winterhalder	Switzerland	Committee Member
Giulio Metro	Italy	Committee Member
Ulrike Burkhard-Meier	Germany	Committee Member
Elaine Rankin	United Kingdom	Committee Member
Ignacio Tusquets Trias de Bes	Spain	Committee Member

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