16th Annual EFCS Tutorial

15-19 September 2025

Krankenhaus St. Elisabeth & St. Barbara

Halle/Saale (Germany)

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Dear Reader,

After living through a very fruitful and active period with the Residents and Young Pathologists Committee of the EFCS, with the tightly packed European Congresses in Budapest and Leipzig we disappeared for a couple of months to recuperate and accept change. Now I am excited to announce the rejuvenated Young EFCS with the combination of old friends in the chair and fresh new enthusiastic members!

I wish to grab the opportunity and say a warm goodbye and wish all the best to Pawel as our chair. We cannot be thankful enough for his efforts in bringing together the core of our group with Christina, Damjana, Despina, Cioly and myself. Under his guidance, we pulled off a Scientific Session at the ICC in Baltimore, that ignited the start of our mentorship project manifesting in a mind-opening roundtable session and a slide seminar in the Budapest congress, peaking with two young EFCS sessions in Leipzig. Under Pawel’s editorial of the EFCS Newsletter, we were committed to keep you up-to-date on the ripest events in cytology, we introduced the slovenian, british and hungarian national societies, and shared inspiring interviews of esteemed colleagues, case challenges and trivias on cytology.

As Pawel leaves, we will keep on nurturing our duties to inform you but in a new form. Instead of a quarterly newsletter our broadcasting will transform into the EFCS Newsreel, where you will be able to find all important and educative content in a continuous, more frequent but in a loosely packed manner.

I am privileged that Pawel and the EFCS Council Board thought of me to be the new chair, I will do my best. It is important to emphasize that we have grown but we have space to grow further!

If you are resident or early in your career, we wait for you in our community. We would be more than happy to share your cases, introduce your society, and your ideas on the Newsreel. You might find someone like minded among us to team up for a common scientific project in your field of interest in cytology or be eligible to join in on an EFCS scientific project. Or you might have a thought to add to the design of our follow-up mentorship survey, especially aimed to explore residents’ needs. Maybe you are strong on expressing yourself on social media, you could join our X (and soon LinkedIn) team led by Cioly to spread our word. Or you just wish to get to know new friends in cytology, this is the place and you are more than welcome!

Look for our content on X (@efcsyoung) too and if you wish to join our group, feel free to contact Christina (christina.kabjorngustafsson@gmail.com) or me (ikovacs85@gmail.com) directly!

Stay tuned for the upcoming report on the EFCS Tutorial in Wroclaw back this September, and the invitation from IAC president Fernando Schmitt to the 22nd International Cytology Congress in Florence, with a “Case of the Month”.

Until then, I wish you a very happy holiday season!

István Kovács

EFCS Residents and Young Pathologists Committee

Report of 15th Annual Tutorial in Cytopathology

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Report of 14th Annual Tutorial in Cytopathology

This year’s EFCS Annual Cytology Tutorial was again a great success. The 14th annual EFCS tutorial of Cytopathology was held on June 16-18 in Toulouse (France). The event was chaired by Giovanni Negri and co-chaired by Arrigo Capitanio, and the local Host was Monique Courtade-Saidi. The Tutorial fol

Message to the Ukrainian cytopathologists

March 8th, 2022

It is hard to find the words for the terror you and your people are facing in this horrible war. Destruction, suffer, split families, refugees… We are witnessing heroic and brave fight of Ukraine against devastating aggression, and we are sure that you will defend your beautiful country.

Dear Ukrainian friends and colleagues, we are thinking of you. As doctors and humanitarians, we are sure that you are giving yourselves for your citizens and help them to survive and heal.

EFCS supports you in all ways possible. Board of directors have decided to accept Ukrainian association of cytopathology as an affiliated EFCS member and offer free membership for this year. We will grant two young cytopathologists from your Association with the scholarship for the next EFCS Tutorial hoping that atrocities will diminish, and this can be realized. You can count on our permanent support in the future.

We are completely sure that all of us in Europe are helping in the ways we can, with donations of essential goods, acceptance and care for refugees, and contributions to civil protection services and humanitarian organisations.

To you, our colleagues, cytopathologists, we offer any help and support, especially in education and professional activities, wherever you are. You can contact us by email, phone, or social networks.

Sincerely,

Danijela Vrdoljak-Mozetič, EFCS General Secretary

Jerzy Klijanienko, EFCS president

Ambrogio Fassina, EFCS treasurer

Giovani Negri, EFCS Tutorial chair

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