The European Society of Breast Imaging (EUSOBI) introduced an European Diploma in Breast Imaging (EDBI) in 2012. The European Diploma in Breast Imaging is a common European qualification for breast imagers and helps to standardise training and expertise in breast imaging across Europe. The European Diploma in Breast Imaging is endorsed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR).

The EDBI confirms specific competence of radiologists to perform, interpret and report mammography, ultrasound, MRI and breast intervention. The EBDI will assist breast imagers in the promotion of their skills and experience in breast imaging when dealing with other clinical colleagues and with the general public.

The European Diploma in Breast Imaging is endorsed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR). The European Diploma in Breast Imaging will be a common European qualification for breast imagers and will help to standardise training and expertise in breast imaging across Europe. The EDBI confirms specific competence of radiologists to perform, interpret and report mammography, ultrasound, MRI and breast intervention.

EDBI Chairperson
Dr. Eva M. Fallenberg

A) Application form
The completed application form must be submitted to the EUSOBI Office.

B) Training in radiology / Certificate of completed training
The training of candidates has to be in line with previously established basic principles of radiology training as laid out in the ESR European Training Curriculum for Radiology. Applicants have to prove at least five years of radiology training. A certificate of completed training needs to be provided. For candidates with less than five years of training only, a proof of experience as a supervised staff radiologist is required.

C) Subspecialty training
At least two years of subspecialty training following radiology certification is required.

D) Proof of practice
Diplomas may only be awarded to fully-trained, licensed and practising radiologists, therefore a proof of practice must be provided. Specialists from other fields and radiologists no longer in practice are specifically excluded from being granted the ESR-endorsed EUSOBI diploma.

E) RIS documentation or Logbook
All candidates must present a RIS documentation or logbook with a total record of their breast radiology experience of the last 24 months. This should present the candidate’s breast related experience in mammography, ultrasound, MRI and interventional procedures. The RIS documentation or logbook should be countersigned by candidate’s breast imaging programme director. Preferably provided as an excel sheet, the RIS documentation/logbook should be sorted by modalities with clearly identified and anonymous information.

The minimum qualifications required for entry to the examination are the following:

• The candidate should have reported at least 800 mammograms per year
• 500 breast ultrasounds per year,
• 50 breast MR studies per year and
• performed 25 breast interventional procedures per year.

The candidate should have reached these figures within each of  the last two years prior to the application for the application date. (During the covid-19 pandemic less numbers might have been performed. In this case performance period to collect the total number of two years can be extended to the past three years. e.g. 1600 mammograms, 1000 breast ultrasounds….within the past three years) 

Required documents

Please make sure to provide the EUSOBI Office with the following documents (in additon to original documentation – if not available in English laguage – an English translation must be provided):

• Application form
• Certificate of completed training (proof of at least 5 years of radiology training) if not applicable: refer to eligibility criteria – point B
• Proof of practice
• RIS documentation/logbook – refer to required numbers provided under eligibility criteria – point E
• Letter of support (incl. proof of at least 2 years of subspecialty training)
• CME certificates – refer to required credits under eligibility criteria – point G
• Documentation form (includes CV, overview chart of CME credits, overview chart of achieved numbers according to provided RIS documentation/logbook)
• EUSOBI/ESR Membership proofs

! IMPORTANT ! Naming of application documents

Application documents must be provided with the correct naming in order to be accepted by the EUSOBI Office. Therefore, please make sure to use the following document names:

• Application form: SURNAME_Application form
• Certificate of completed training: SURNAME_CCT
• Proof of practice: SURNAME_Proof of practice
• RIS documentation/logbook: SURNAME_RIS (if separated by year, additionally use _YEAR; if separated by modality, additionally use _MODALITY)
• Letter of support: SURNAME_Letter of support
• CME certificates: SURNAME_CME01; SURNAME_CME02; SURNAME_CME03; … (the order of the numbered CME certificates should refer to the order used within the overview chart of the documentation form)
• Documentation form: SURNAME_Documentation form
• EUSOBI/ESR Membership proofs: SURNAME_EUSOBI/ESR Membership

Re-examination

In case a candidate did not pass the European Diploma in Breast Imaging he/she has the possibility to retake the examination one year later. A reduced fee of € 200.00 will be granted for a re-examination.

Cancellation

No refunds can be provided if the applicant withdraws his/her application after acceptance of the same. If applying again for the next examination, only 50% of the respective handling fee will be charged.

Terminology

Successful candidates will be awarded the European Diploma in Breast Imaging and may add EBBI (European Board of Breast Imaging) to their name.