European Diploma in Neurointervention 2024
EDNI Written Examination 2024
The 2024 EDNI written examination will take place on 19th April 2024.
The fee to take the examination €300.
The written exam is offered as a virtual examination using the Ortrac examination system, which includes cutting-edge invigilation software. Candidates will need to download, install and complete the set-up of the remote examination software in advance of the examination.
Only students who have passed the written examination are eligible to take the orals, which are scheduled for 2nd September, 2024. Diplomas will be presented during the ESMINT 2024 Congress, taking place 4 – 6 September 2024 in Marseille, France.
Candidates can find all the material needed to prepare for the written exam in their ECMINT course materials and quizzes.
The passmark for the written exam is calculated using a recognized standard-setting methodology such as Cohen. The Examination Committee reserve the right to investigate any anomalies raised by the invigilation software. Any candidate found to have cheated will be disqualified and prohibited from taking any future ESMINT examinations.
Registration is now closed for the April 19th exam.
EDNI Orals 2024
To be eligible to take the EDNI oral, candidates must have passed the written part of the EDNI.
These will take place on 2nd September 2024 via Zoom.
Registration will open during the summer.
The fee to take the exam is €350.
Your registration can be cancelled up until two weeks before the examination with a 100% refund in the shape of a credit voucher to be used to take a future ESMINT examination.
Please contact office@esmint.eu in case of any questions.
What is the European Diploma in Neurointervention (formerly the ESMINT Diploma)?
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible to sit the EDNI examinations, the student must have attended an entire ECMINT cycle comprised of four different course programmes.
She/he should also have achieved at least an average mark of 60% on the tests finalizing each course, with no mark of 50% or below in any one quiz. For example, a student with 60 – 60 – 60 – 60 is eligible and so is a student with 60 – 70 – 50 – 60. However a student with 60 – 20 – 100 – 60 or 60 – 50 – 60 – 60 is not eligible.
There is no longer any limit on the number of years between a candidate completing ECMINT and taking the EDNI examination.
Students who fail may retake the course or courses which they failed once.
The Diploma examination
Until 2019, the examination for the diploma was conducted annually in conjunction with the ESMINT annual congress. In 2020, the examinations were cancelled. The 2021 Diploma examinations took place completely online.
As of 2022 the Diploma has been renamed the European Diploma in Neurointervention. All future written examinations will take place virtually.
The Diploma examination consists of two parts:
- a written examination consisting in 100 questions, with 4 to 5 sub-questions to each (all multiple choice), which will be offered virtually, and
- an oral examination of 45 minutes of which the first 25 minutes are devoted to questions around at least 2-3 of the 5 themes included in the curriculum: tumor, aneurysms, stroke, vascular malformations and neurovascular anatomy (pediatrics could be included in these themes where appropriate.) The remaining 20 minutes is devoted to two cases. Candidate must prepare one case representing one of the main four themes (tumor, aneurysms, stroke or vascular malformations) and present it to the examiners, and then the examiners will have one case prepared, alsorepresenting one of the themes, and you will be asked questions around this case.
The written examination is three hours long, and is divided into two equal parts with a short break in between the two.
It is marked as a percentage and the passmark is calculated using a recognized standard-setting methodology such as Cohen, whereas the oral is assessed simply as pass or fail.
A candidate who fails one or both parts may take the each part of the examination a maximum of three times.
Going forward (at the time of writing, March 2022), only those candidates who pass the written examination may take the oral.
Past ESMINT Diplomas
European Diploma in Neurointervention (EDNI) 2023
This was the second year of the European Diploma in Neurointervention examinations, certified by both ESMINT and EBNI.
27 successful candidates were presented with their Diplomas during the awards ceremony on Tuesday 5th September 2023 at the ESMINT Congress in Marseille.
European Diploma in Neurointervention (EDNI) 2022
This year marked the first year of the European Diploma in Neurointervention, which is certified by both ESMINT and EBNI – formerly the examination was known as the ESMINT Diploma.
The written examination took place virtually on 29th April 2022. Only those who passed the written exam were eligible to take orals, which took place via Zoom on Friday 2nd September.
Students who passed the examination were awarded the diploma during the award ceremony on Thursday afternoon at the ESMINT Congress 2022.
ESMINT Diploma 2021
The ESMINT Diploma 2021 Examinations took place virtually on 2nd and 3rd September 2021.
Students who passed a complete ECMINT cycle (4 courses) were eligible to sit the final examination.
ESMINT Diploma 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic both the ESMINT Congress 2020 and the ESMINT Diploma 2020 Examinations due to take place in Nice in September were cancelled.
ESMINT Diploma 2019
The ECMINT examination to receive the ESMINT Diploma took place 2 and 3 September 2019 in the Hotel Le Meridien, Nice, France before the 11th ESMINT Congress 2019.
Students who passed a complete ECMINT cycle (4 courses) were eligible to sit the final examination.
Schedule of the ESMINT Diploma
Monday, Sept 2:
- 13:00h – 16:00h ECMINT Written Exam (arrival minimum 30 mins in advance)
Tuesday, Sept 3:
- 9:00h – 16:00h ECMINT Oral Exam (you will have a time-slot of 45 mins, exact personal times will be announced later)
ESMINT Diploma 2018
The third ESMINT Diploma examination took place on Wednesday, 5 September 2018 in the Hotel Le Meridien, Nice. In the morning, there were the written online examinations and in the afternoon, the oral examination took place. Students who passed the examination were awarded the ESMINT Diploma during the award ceremony on Friday afternoon during the 10th Anniversary ESMINT Congress.
ESMINT Diploma 2017
The second ESMINT Diploma examination took place Wednesday, September 6, 2017 in the Hotel Le Meridien, Nice. In the morning, there were written examinations and in the afternoon the oral examinations were held. The award ceremony took place during the ESMINT Congress on Friday, September 8 at 14:55h in the main meeting room in the Acropolis Convention Center.
ESMINT Diploma 2016
The ESMINT examination for the first cycle took place Wednesday, September 7, 2016 in conjunction with the ESMINT Congress in Nice, France. The award ceremony took place during the ESMINT Congress on Friday, September 9, 2016 at 15:10h in the main meeting room.
