M.S.C.P. Mediterranean Society of Coloproctology

Report of 4th IMCA in Tirana, Albania

4th IMCA (International Multidisciplinary Medical Congress in Albania) in Tirana

Xavier Delgadillo¹ - Manos Pramateftakis²

¹Centre Médico Chirurgical Volta , rue de la Paix 152, 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.

² Interbalkan European Medical Center, Asklipiou 10, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece.

The Mediterranean Society of Coloproctology (MSCP) has participated as a Congress Partner at the 4^th International Multidisciplinary Medical Congress in Albania (IMCA), from November 15th to 17th, 2018 in Tirana. Manos Pramateftakis MD (Greece) and Xavier Delgadillo MD (Switzerland) both MSCP Board members, where speakers and key lecturers invited by the organizers.

First of all, it is important to mention that Lindita Shosha Mano MD, Organizer President of the Meeting outstandingly prepared the venue, proposed a «fantastique» scientific program, a very warmly social events and welcome. More than 70 outstanding foreign speakers, from 20 countries and almost 2200 local and international participants, from many European, American and Asian countries were present.

A report on the last M.S.C.P. Congress by X. Delgadillo (on T.I.C.)

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Greetings from Manos Pramateftakis, new President of M.S.C.P.

Pramateftakis The role of the Mediterranean Society of Coloproctology over the last 20 years of its existence has been to create a network of specialists across the Mediterranean basin in order to share knowledge and promote excellence in all aspects of lower gastrointestinal surgery. The society has been growing with steady rhythm and has managed to attract more and more countries into its ever growing surgical “family”.

The society’s 11th biennial meeting found place in Thessaloniki, Greece and was hosted by the Interbalkan Medical Centre, a state-of-the-art hospital covering all aspects of elective and emergency medicine across Northern Greece and the Balkans.

Report from XI Biennial Congress of M.S.C.P.

The 11th Biennial Congress of the MSCP found place in Thessaloniki (Greece) from 4 to 5 May 2018.

The very comfortable location of the Interbalkan Medical Centre in Thessaloniki (Greece) hosted the 11th Biennial Congress of the Mediterranean Society of Coloproctology, which is being organized in cooperation with the Greek-German Society of Surgery.

A proposal for a network of young M.S.C.P. surgeons

Dear Members of the Mediterranean Society of Coloproctology (MSCP),
Nowadays, the need for colorectal surgery as a subspecialty has increased tremendously.

It has been about 20 years since Prof. Herand Abcarian [1] expressed the need to recognize coloproctology as a separate specialty uniformly worldwide.

In the USA colorectal surgeons founded the American Proctology Society in 1889 and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery was charted to certify the future specialists in this field over 70 years ago.