Committees

The duties of the Education Committee are to:

• Set and approve criteria for training programs, training institutions, and supervisors.
• Maintain a list of approved training programs, training institutions, supervisors and current candidates.
• Set, maintain and revise an outline of the scope of knowledge and level of attainment required for the examination.
• Monitor the progress of each candidate by receiving the required annual reports from their supervisors.
• Approve the residency programs in Veterinary Parasitology.
• Approve the guidelines for minimum requirements for the continuing education of Diplomates.

Members: Manuela Schnyder (Chair) manuela.schnyder@uzh.ch, Emanuele Brianti, Dieter Barutzki, Alessio Giannelli, Eduardo Berriatua, Deborah Joekel

Liaison with the board: Georg Von Samsong-Himmelstjerna

The duties of the Examination Committee are to:

• Deal with all the matters in relation to examinations of the College, including organization, maintenance of quality standards and holding the examinations.
• Inform the College Board of the examination result and make recommendations regarding the award of Diplomate status.

Members: Yannick Caron (Chair) Yannick.CARON@qualyse.fr, Hany Elsheikha, Emmanuel Liénard, Ana Montoya-Matute, Jacques Guillot

Liaison with the board: Luis Cardoso         

Advisors: Harold Salant and Ramon Eichenberger    

The duties of the Credentials Committee are to:

• Establish guidelines to assist applicants applying to sit the diploma examination.
• Receive, review and approve the candidacy of applicants for examination by the College.
• Forward the credentials of approved applicants to the Examination Committee.
• Establish re-accreditation criteria and, when appropriate, to review and amend these.
• Receive, review and approve applications for re-accreditation from all active diplomats. 

Members:  Gereon Schares (Chair) gereon.schares@fli.de, Viktor Dyachenko, Adolfo Paz-Silva, Veli Cirak

Liaison with the board: Walter Basso

The duties of the Nominating Committee are to:

• Foster respect for the EVPC Constitution and Bylaws for all nominations and elections;
• Inform Members and provide Diplomates with the rules for applications to fill any vacancies; 
• Check the correctness of procedures before, during and after any nomination and ballot/election;
• Write the minutes  and report of the election and send them to the EVPC Secretary Office.

Members: Johannes Charlier, Barbara Hinney

The duties of the Residents Committee are to:

• Provide training support for residents.
• Organise meetings and events for the residents during the EVPC annual meetings.

Members: Nina Germitsch ngermitsch@upei.ca, James O’Shaughnessy

Residents' representative: Georgiana Deak

Liaison with the board: Emilie Bouhsira