EPOS Membership

• Applicant members need to be in approved training programs.
  
  
• Applications for Candidate Membership should be submitted to the General Secretary for consideration by the Executive Committee. Each letter of application should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae and a letter of recommendation from one member of EPOS and the head of their department.
  
  
• Applications for Candidate Memberships should be received by the General Secretary by the end of September for consideration by the Executive Committee prior to election at the Annual General meeting of EPOS.
  
  

• Active and Corresponding members must be qualified in paediatric orthopaedic surgery according to the rules of their own country. Applicant members need to spend at least 50% of their time in paediatric orthopaedic practice.
  
  
• Associate members must be qualified in branches of medicine which treat or study disorders of the paediatric musculoskeletal system.
  
  
• Before applying for membership, applicants need to attend at least one meeting of EPOS;
  
  
• and to have published a paediatric orthopaedic related paper in a peer reviewed Journal or presented a paper or a poster at an EPOS meeting.
  
  
• Applications for membership should be submitted to the General Secretary for consideration by the Executive Committee. Each letter of application should be accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae and a list of publications in Paediatric Orthopaedics. Each applicant needs two sponsors, one of whom should be a fellow National and the second, an active or corresponding member from another country. One sponsor must be an active member.
  
  
• Applications for membership should be received by the General Secretary by the end of September of the year prior to consideration by the Executive Committee and approval at the Annual General Meeting of EPOS in Spring.