Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

In this newsletter I would like to present you five interesting education events. These events cover themes such as epidemiology, health care, endoscopy, psychiatry as well as ethnology and last but not least the Humanitarian Congress in Berlin, which focuses ethical challenges.

For medical doctors we provide three new job offers in Germany from Agaplesion gAG.

I wish you a lot of pleasure reading this GI-Mail.

Warm regards,

Gerhard Polak, MD

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GI-MAIL 09/2012:

 
Coursetip

Concepts of Epidemiology

10th to14th December 2012, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Concepts of Epidemiology is an intensive 5-day course for professionals who wish to build a solid foundation of knowledge in the fields of epidemiology relating to public health practice, policy and research. As an introduction to epidemic concepts and principles, the course is most suited to people working in public health, such as nurses, doctors, health promoters, health policy makers and health researchers... read more.

TIP: Read more about courses and congresses dealing with "Epidemiology and Disease Control” and “Public Health” in the Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«! More events can be found as well online at the Education Database.

Congresstip

XIV. Humanitarian Congress Berlin

12th and 13th October 2012, Virchow-Klinikum, Berlin-Wedding, Deutschland

Tough Choices – Ethical Challenges in Humanitarian Action

The Humanitarian Congress in Berlin is an international platform for the exchange of experiences and ideas related to humanitarian action. Each year, the congress brings together leading experts from international humanitarian and medical organisations, academia, politics, and the media as well as a large number of students from different areas of study.

This year’s congress seeks to address topics including humanitarian action in authoritarian states, medical aid in detention centres, and the question if humanitarian aid prolongs war as well as medical issues such as the treatment of non-communicable diseases in humanitarian programmes.

Find speakers, programme an registration here.

Registration deadline: 1st October 2012

The congress is organised by Medecins Sans Frontieres, Medecins Du Monde, the German Red Cross, the Berlin Chamber of Physicians and the Charité.

TIP: Read more about courses and congresses dealing with "Global Health and Population Studiesin the Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«! More events can be found as well online at the Education Database.

15th Düsseldorf International Endoscopy Symposium

1st and 2nd February 2013, Düsseldorf, Germany

Learning objectives

  • Evaluate recent advances in endoscopy; assess their clinical utility and level of evidence
  • Apply new endoscopic techniques, instruments and accessories; compare them with traditional methods and devices
  • Choose the optimal endoscopic approach for specific case management
  • Manage failed interventions and complications
  • Recognize the importance of an interdisciplinary approach
Find the detailied programme of the Endoscopy Symposium here.
Please use the online-registration.

TIP: Read more about courses and congresses dealing with "Internal Medicine and Surgeryin the Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«! More events can be found as well online at the Education Database.

XXTH World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

14th to 18th October 2012, Hamburg, Germany

The WCPG 2012 will be a hallmark event in psychiatric genetics worldwide.

Various Educational Sessions, Educational Consortia Meetings, Symposia as well as Plenary and Poster Sessions will form the Congress schedule and inform about the latest scientific contributions within Psychiatric Genetics.

The meeting is expected with very significant numbers of participants from the US and Asia. It provides a unique platform to interact with an international group of colleagues and offers an unique opportunity of knowledge-exchange.

Be excited and get more information here.

Congress Registration, Scientific Programme and Congress Venue can be found here.

TIP: Read more about courses and congresses dealing with "Mental Health in the Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«! More events can be found as well online at the Education Database.

Specialtip

Religion Inside Medicine

15th and 16th February 2013, Berlin, Germany

Epistemology, Law, and Everyday Experience and Practice

With the growing resurgence of religious practice and healing in many parts of the world, and the simultaneously ongoing medicalization of different areas of everyday life, this workshop suggests to debate how religious and medical phenomena and practices have become interrelated in emerging assemblages of a globally interconnected world.

While both religious and medical traditions seek to provide wellbeing and health to their believers and patients respectively, the approaches they use in treatment and healing, and the epistemological and legal and institutional foundations on which their ideas and practices rest, are often very different… read more.

TIP: Read more about courses and congresses dealing with "Ethnology and „Population Studies“ in the Career & Education Guide »medicine & health 2012«! More events can be found as well online at the Education Database.

Jobtip

Agaplesion gAG

Medicine and nursing. With love for life

AGAPLESION is a modern healthcare company consisting of the association of social hospitals, nursing facilities and training centres. We have set ourselves the task of uniting excellence in medicine, nursing and management with Christian values. And this is exactly what distinguishes us: patient-oriented medicine and nursing according to acknowledged quality standards.

We are looking for a senior physician and assistant physicians for our clinics.

Stuttgart
AGAPLESION BETHESDA KRANKENHAUS

Senior physician (m/f) … more.

Assistant physician (m/f) … more.

 

Frankfurt
AGAPLESION FRANKFURTER DIAKONIE KLINIKEN

Assistant physician (m/f) for the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Care (part-time) … more.

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