The International Federation of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (FIGIJ) has created the international recognition for those physicians of different specialities that develop the pediatric and adolescent gynecology. This speciality has academic recognition by few universities, but many of university centers give this training.

The purpose of IFEPAG is to stimulate the interest of obstetricians/gynecologists, Pediatricions, Endocrilogists, Pediatric Surgeons, specialist in adolescence and Family physicians to work and develop research in this area of the medicine. The first IFEPAG was hold in 1997 at the VII European Congress of Pediatric and adolescent gynecology at Vienna.

It has been approved by FIGIJ the XVI IFEPAG to be held on 21 May, 2010 in
Montpellier, France before the XVI World Congress of Pediatric and Adolescent Ginecology, from 22 to 25 May, 2010. The IFEPAG exam will be in English, Spanish and French.

Additional information of IFEPAG can be found at the web page www.cemera.cl/sogia/2004.html Report on virtual journal of SOGIA-CHILEAN volume XI, Nº1, 2004.

The next table show the distribution of candidates to IFEPAG by, place, year, countries, type of the exam and % of success.

IFEPAG fellows Directory by year, country and email (PDF)

CANDIDATES BY EXAM AND TYPE OF IFEPAG
CANDIDATOS POR LUGAR DEL EXAMEN Y TIPO DE IFEPAG
CANDIDATOS SEGUNDO LOCAL DO EXAME E TIPO DE IFEPAG

Lugar
Place
Local

Year
Ano

Países
Countries
Total
Candidat.
Level I
Level II
No aprobado
Not Approved
Não aprovado
 
%
Viena
1997
6
18
7
7
4
22.2
Helsinki
1998
7
13
5
4
4
30.8
La Habana
1999
4
8
4
4
-
-
Praga
2000
4
5
4
1
-
-
B. Aires
2001
10
40
25
11
4
10.0
Firenze
2002
5
10(*)
7
3 (*)
-
-
Asunción
2003
5
6
5
1
-
-
Santiago-Chile
2003
4
7
2
5
-
-
Athens
2004
6
9
3
6
-
-
Cartagena-Colombia
2005
4
8
5
3
1
11.1
Budapest
2006
1
1
1
0
-
-
Philippine
2006
1
6
2
4
1
14.2
Sao Paulo
2007
10
24(*)
16
10(**)
1
3.8
St. Petersburg
2008
5
6
3
3
-
-
Panama
2009
2
8
5
3
-
-
Total
14
26
169
91
61
15
10.5
Candidates appliying for :
95
66(***)
Nº Approved      
89.5
92.1
   
% Approved
90.6
79.3

(*) 3 names repeated
(**) Two candidates IFEPAG II, previously I
(***) 3 candidates IFEPAG I-II, were given II in different place