At the Lohuis Filipović Medical Group clinic, we educate young surgeons for a full additional year in aesthetic and reconstructive plastic and reconstructive facial and reconstructive facial surgery and body plastic surgery after completing basic education in otorhinolaryngology/head and neck surgery or plastic surgery.
Dr.Sc. Peter Lohuis, MD, PhD
otolaryngologist, subspecialist in head and neck plastic surgery, somnologist, IBCFPRS
Doc.Dr.Sc. Boris Filipović, MD
otorhinolaryngologist, subspecialist in plastic surgery of the head and neck, FEBORL-HNS, IBCFPRS
Polyclinic Lohuis-Filipović Medical Group
Zagreb, Croatia
Sveti Duh University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
BEY by Bergman Clinics
Hilversum, Netherlands
The Netherlands Cancer Institute
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Scholarship holders are required to take the European Board Exam and the end of the scholarship. The European Certification Board for Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery was established in 2013. Its mission is to improve the quality of facial plastic surgery that is available to the public in Europe. The European Committee is dedicated to measuring the qualifications of candidates for surgery according to rigorous standards.
Among the key efforts of the EBCFPRS is the administration of the European Board Exam in Facial Plastic Surgery. This is done in collaboration with the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABFPRS.org).
This exam has been developed over decades with considerable effort. Questions are tested in the field and selected only when they prove to be in exact correlation with expertise. The oral portion of the exam is conducted by senior examiners from Europe and the United States. Over a period of 3 hours, the subjects are presented with a total of 12 case scenarios. Examiners are coordinated by senior examiners. The expected answers and questions are discussed throughout the all-day session, ensuring maximum fairness and reliability of the exam results. Both written and oral results are subject to rigorous quality control.
The exam is only one part of the certification process. Applicants for both the regular and second track must submit 100 relevant surgical cases over a period of 2 years (50 per year). This surgical experience is reviewed by an expert committee. Of course, all of the surgeon’s credentials, including the certification of the medical board and the specialist committee, are reviewed during the process. Only when all the requirements are met, successful candidates receive the “EBCFPRS Board Certified Facial Plastic Surgeon” certificate.
Rhinoplasty, revision rhinoplasty, hair transplantation, endoscopic eyebrow lift, upper and lower eyelid surgery, deep plane face & neck lift, otoplasty, lip lift, botulinum toxin treatments, filler treatments, liposuction and fat tissue transfer, minimally invasive surgical procedures such as InMode Face Tite and Body Tite, facial skin rejuvenation treatments with chemical peels or innovative technology with combinations of microneedles and radiofrequency (Morpheus 8 FACE).
All specialists working at Lohuis Filipović Medical Group are experts in their clinical medical field and therefore often participate as invited guest lecturers in numerous countries on various scientific topics. In this way, colleagues can learn from our experience, while in turn we learn from theirs.
Ablative oncological head and neck surgery, pedicled reconstructive surgery, microvascular free flap reconstruction, skin cancer and skin cancer reconstruction, facial nerve rehabilitation.
LF Fellow – 2020
LF Fellow – 2021
LF Fellow – 2022
