Individuals

IFSO Endorsement Application Form

Requirements

Endorsement requests must be sent to IFSO Secretariat (info@ifso.com) together with the scientific program of the Event in English. IFSO relevant Committee will carefully review the concepts and objectives of the course as well as the faculty, the structure and content of the course, in deciding about the endorsement.

"Endorsement" does not in any way offer credentialing of grant approval to the participant regarding future skills and outcomes.

Single Endorsement

• Single Endorsement is only available for one event.
• The complete application has to be received at latest 3 weeks prior to the event. Applications received less than 3 weeks before will be automatically rejected.
• The event must be directed or coordinated by an IFSO member, or have as its primary faculty, at least one IFSO member
• Endorsed events should offer CME credits (if not, an explanation must be provided)
• The Director must ensure that disclosure of conflict of interest are enforced
• The Director must show in his presentation(s) the Case Mix Disclosure slide (see attached) and recommend its use to all the speakers.
• Reduced registration fees must be granted to IFSO Members

The fee for single endorsement is $400,00

Multiple Endorsement

• Multiple endorsement is meant for two or more events held per year at the same institution
• The complete application has to be received at latest 3 weeks prior to the event. Applications received less than 3 weeks before will be automatically rejected.
• The events must be directed or coordinated by an IFSO member, or have as its primary faculty, at least one IFSO member
• The agendas and faculty lists of all events that will be held during the year must be submitted at the moment of application for annual review and approval
• The institution/centre must be equipped with adequate facilities
• Endorsed events should offer CME credits (if not, an explanation must be provided).
• The Director must ensure that disclosure of conflict of interest are enforced
• The Director must show in his presentation(s) the Case Mix Disclosure slide (see attached) and recommend its use to all the speakers.
• Reduced registration fees must be granted to IFSO Members

The fee for multiple endorsement is $1.200,00/year

Benefits:

Endorsed events will be:

• listed on IFSO’s Website on the “Endorsed meetings” page, with a link to the congress website
• included on IFSO’s E-newsletter
• mailed twice to IFSO Members
• advertised once on IFSO Facebook and Twitter page
• the Director may include IFSO’s Endorsement statement and IFSO Logo on promotional materials among the endorsing institutions, exclusively with the following text: “Endorsed by” before the logo of IFSO.

People’s first language/ IFSO accepted nomenclature:

• Use patients with obesity, people with obesity, woman/man/child with obesity
• Use severe obesity (or reference BMI range or Class), never morbid obesity or super-obesity or extreme-obesity
• Eliminate "success/failure" "recidivism" "non-compliant" "gold-standard" "last-resort" sort of language
• Avoid weight-loss surgery, instead use bariatric-metabolic surgery
• Imagery (no headless, stereotypical/stigma = takeaway boxes, fast food, ill-fitting clothes, etc.)
• BMI 30 <35kg/m2 = Obesity I
• BMI 35 <40kg/m2 = Obesity II
• BMI 40 <50kg/m2 = Obesity III
• BMI 50 <60kg/m2 = Obesity IV instead of "Super Obesity"
• BMI 60 <70kg/m2 = Obesity V instead of "Super-Super Obesity"

Diversity statement:

IFSO encourages diversity such as gender, age and geographical representation. Therefore, we encourage to take into account diversity in selecting the faculty of your educational events.

Upcoming IFSO World Congress

The organizer of the endorsed meeting commits to:

• Post on the meeting's website the digital flyer and the link to the website of the upcoming IFSO World Congress.
• Display posters or flyers of the IFSO World Congress at the endorsed meeting's venue.

If you think your event fulfils the above mentioned requirements, please send your request to info@ifso.com by filling the following form together with a PDF file of the scientific program.

After the approval of the relevant Committee, the Applicant will receive further instructions about the payment of the endorsement fee.

Download here Application Form for Individuals