Mohs Surgeons in Europe

Aim of Mohs Society Europe is to publish for patients and for a professinal interconnection between dermatosurgens a list of Mohs surgeons in Europe who provide the professional Mohs qualifications and the legal authority for the histopathology report and who implement the Mohs procedure and Mohs technique according to the US-american Mohs standard.

All Mohs surgeons of the European Economic Area, Great Britain including Northern Ireland and Switzerland are invited to contribute information about legal compliance aspects in their countires, about necessary professional qualifications and legal legitimation for Mohs surgery and to be enlisted into this register. Please free welcome to contact us:

Formal requirements for Mohs surgeons in Europe

To process Mohs surgery according to the defined the US-american Mohs method, the following formal requirements have to be fulfilled to be entitled as Mohs surgeon:

Tumor excision and histological analysis by Mohs surgeon according to the defined US-american Mohs procedure
Basic qualification as medical specialist for dermatology and additional specialization on dermatosurgergy
Professional qualification by knowledge and skills of Mohs surgical techniques and Mohs histological analysis
Legal legitimation for issuing the histopathology report
Professional qualification and legal legitimation have to be united in one person

Classification scheme for Mohs surgeons in Europe

Due to the varying legal situation about the legitimacy of issuing a histopathology report by Mohs surgeons in Europe, the widely missing qualifications of Mohs specific processing of the histological specimen and Mohs specific embedding for the horizontal frozen sectioning, as well as the widely missing qualification in Mohs specific histological analysis by Mohs surgeons, it is necessary to establish a classification scheme which distinguishes these differences. Mohs society Europe develops such a classification scheme at the moment and plans to synchronize this with the two American Mohs societies.

Currently Mohs Society Europe has defined the following classification scheme, which has temporary status but contributes to the understanding of the professional qualifications and legal legitimation for issuing a histopathology report:

1st Grade Mohs Surgeon - Mohs Master

Full comprehensive and profound professional Mohs qualification of the dermatosurgeon n performing the proper Mohs surgery technique, proper processing of the Mohs histological specimen and autonomous analysis of the Mohs histology by the Mohs surgeon
Full legal legitimation of issuing a histopathology report by the Mohs surgeon without the legal necessity of a second opinion e.g. a pathologist or dermatohistopathologist

2nd Grade Mohs Surgeon - Mohs qualified

Like the 1st Grade Mohs surgeon, the dermatosurgeon possesses fully comprehensive and profound professional Mohs qualification in performing the proper Mohs surgery technique, proper processing of the Mohs histological specimen and autonomous analysis of the Mohs histology
No legal legitimation of issuing a histopathology report by the Mohs surgeon, therefore a second opinion is legally obligatory, e.g. from a pathologist or dermatohistopathologist

3rd Grade Mohs Surgeon - Mohs limited qualified

The dermatosurgeon has limited specific Mohs qualifications and therefore can only partially implement the Mohs process and technique regarding to the surgery, the processing of the histological specimen or the histological analysis
Due to the fact that fully comprehensive and profound professional Mohs qualification is missing, the presence of a legal legitimation is therefore not relevant

AT - Austria

Formal requirements for Mohs surgeons in Austria

To comply to the formal requirements for fully comprehensive and profound professional Mohs qualification and legal legitimation for issuing a histopathology report the following combinations have to be fulfilled in the same person:

Specialist in dermatology with additional specialization in dermatohistopathology
and professional qualifications in Mohs surgery
Specialist in dermatology and specialist in pathologye
and professional qualifications in Mohs surgery
Specialist in dermatology and general practitioner
and professional qualifications in Mohs surgery

Mohs surgeons in Austria

AT.1 Mag. Dr. Lena Hampel - 1st Grade Mohs Surgeon - Mohs Master
MOHS.AT - Medical Center for Skin Cancer and Mohs Surgery

BE - Belgium