ESGO Centre Accreditations

For Gynaecological Oncology
Training and Surgery

Get Your ESGO Accreditation
for Endometrial Cancer Surgery

The ESGO accreditation in Endometrial cancer surgery is an award attributed to institutions that can offer patients the specific skills, experience, organisation, and dedication required to achieve optimal levels of surgical care.

The ESGO accreditation is based on completion of the ESGO Quality indicators and a scoring system which has been designed and validated within the International Expert Panel in 2021 (Quality indicators for the surgical treatment of endometrial carcinoma, IJGC, November 18, 2021).

Only centres that meet the QI requirements can be awarded the ESGO accreditation in Endometrial Cancer Surgery.

 

Centres interested in being accredited are required to:

  • Complete and meet the Criteria defining standard accreditation:
  • ≥50 newly diagnosed endometrial carcinoma cases treated per centre per year
  • ≥50 endometrial carcinoma primary surgeries (including early and advanced stages) performed per centre per year.
  • Any centre must accept that ESGO may perform random audits of applicants by asking for operative reports and pathology reports from select cases in their database.
  • The sum of the individual scores being 143, it has been decided that an institution that meets at least 80% of the maximum score (score ≥115 points) provides a satisfactory surgical management of patients with endometrial carcinoma.

However, this sum is not the only criterion to take into account. Please also take into consideration the additional criteria which are crucial to distinguish a centre with a standard accreditation and a centre of excellence accreditation.

The List of Criteria for Endometrial cancer surgery accreditation can be downloaded here

Please view the following documents to prepare your application.

  • Self-assessment form.
  • The following pseudo-anonymised database including all referred cases of endometrial cancer during the last three years is necessary for the ESGO accreditation committee to validate you centre's self-assessment form, and must be uploaded to REDCap.
  • Data must be entered into REDCap for the last 3 consecutive years.
  • Documentation of clinical trials (NCT Number and recruitment numbers overall per year, and if available publication list).
  • Description of how complications are documented and quality management is performed.

Note that you will receive emails with active hyperlinks to the forms you will need to complete as part of your application. If your institution email server blocks such emails you should consider using an alternate email address, such as your personal email address, that will allow emails with active hyperlinks to come through.

Why get accredited?

Centres receiving ESGO accreditation will be entitled to:

  • Use the subtitle “ESGO accredited centre in Endometrial cancer surgery”
  • Use the ESGO logo in its endometrial-cancer-related communication
  • Be listed on the ESGO website as an ESGO accredited centre
Application Process

Interested in applying for the ESGO accreditation in Endometrial Cancer Surgery?

  1. Make sure that you follow the below requirements and process:
  • ≥50 newly diagnosed endometrial carcinoma cases treated per centre per year
  • ≥50 endometrial carcinoma primary surgeries (including early and advanced stages) performed per centre per year.
  • The sum of the individual scores being 143, it has been decided that the score of ≥115 points provides a satisfactory surgical management of endometrial carcinoma.

 

  1. Application is digitalized via REDCap. Once you start the application process an invoice will be generated and sent to your centre.

Along with center-level data, kindly submit a pseudo-anonymised dataset containing all patients treated for endometrial carcinoma in the last three (3) calendar years.

  1. Further provide:
    • Documentation of clinical trials (NCT Number and recruitment numbers overall per year, and if available publication list)
    • Description of how complications are documented, and quality management is performed
    • List of articles published on endometrial carcinoma by team members over the last 3 years (if applying for Center of Excellence)
  2. In case any questions arise please kindly email us centre.accreditation@esgo.org

 

 

Accreditation fee
Application review
Centres of Excellence Award

Need further information? Contact the ESGO Administrative Office.