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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

This edition of GI-Mail contains the most interesting courses and congresses for the upcoming fall season. Topics vary from interdisciplinary sessions in Health Economics and Hospital Management to Tropical Medicine and Chaperonopathies.

If you are interested in Public Health, we recommend you two important conferences in this field in the next months.

This month’s communication tips will help you to build a positive impression by using understandable language – you can fnd the tips in the section jobs & career offers.

For those interested in a new job or a training position we recommend to take a look at our monthly job newsletter or the job offers on the GOING INTERNATIONAL website.

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Kind regards,

Dr.med.Gerhard Polak

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GI-MAIL 08/2014:

1. Course Tips
2. Congress Tips
3. Special of the month
4. Jobs & Career Offers
5. Bookshop

Programme in the Methods of Health Economics

16th September 2014, Vienna, Austria

Cost-effectiveness analysis is being used increasingly by many
countries around the world to help decide what should be provided and to improve the efficiency of health services.

The new lecture series PriMHE (Programme in the Methods of Health Economics) is jointly organised by the Department of Health Economics, Centre for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Health Technology Assessment...read more.

Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health

6th and 7th October 2014, Pennsylvania, USA

ASTMH has developed this course as an update in the essential components of tropical medicine and travelers’ health. This two-day meeting is designed for physicians and for all other health care providers working in tropical medicine or travelers’ health. Speakers are internationally recognized authorities in the field.

ASTMH offers a Certificate Examination that assesses and recognizes individual excellence in training and knowledge. Passing the examination leads to a CTropMed® Certificate of Knowledge in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers’ Health...read more.

17th European Health Forum Gastein - Online Programme

1st to 3rd October 2014, Bad Hofgastein, Austria

Electing Health – the Europe we want

ONLINE PROGRAMME

We look forward to welcoming you to our event in the Gastein Valley in October and to sharing a few days of fruitful exchange and networking.

The conference programme is also available through your mobile devices from the beginning of September. Delegates will be able to stay up-to-date with last-minute changes to the schedule and speaker roster.. read more.

25th Congress of the European Association of Hospital Managers

10th to 13th September 2014, Berlin, Germany

“The Healthcare Industry – Our Responsibility Towards People” is the keynote theme of the 25th Congress of the European Association of Hospital Managers (EAHM). Health and economics form a particularly sensitive pair of terms. Responsibly harmonising both in the interest of patients – this is the task of hospital managers throughout Europe.

All hospitals must respond to this challenge. If not, they will no longer be able to meet their responsibility of providing high quality care for patients. They need partners for this – other hospitals, rehabilitation clinics and physicians in private practices, care facilities, but also companies in the industry, in the service sector, and consulting...read more.

7th European Public Health Conference

19th to 22nd November 2014, Glasgow, Scotland

Mind the gap: Reducing inequalities in health and health care

The European Public Health Conference Foundation, the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) and the UK Society for Social Medicine are pleased to invite you to the 7th European Public Health Conference.

The EPH Conference aims to contribute to the improvement of public health in Europe by offering a means for exchanging information and a platform for debate to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of public health and health services research as well as public health training and education in Europe...read more.

Website on the Chaperonopathies

Chaperonopathies are diseases in which molecular chaperones play a pathogenic role, because they are structurally altered and/or because they participate in a pathway favorable to the development of disease.

The scope of this Website encompasses all chaperonopathies with manifestations in one or more cells, tissues, and organs, focusing on humans but also including non-human models in as much as they may help in the understanding of the human counterparts...read more.

Going USA: Internal Medicine Residency Training Program

Information event: 24th October 2014, Vienna, Austria

Are you interested in an Internship and Residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, USA?

Dr. David Henry is Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. This presentation will review the requirements for applying for Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, but will also review requirements to apply to any Internal Medicine Residency Training Program in the States as well...read more.

Job offers by Going International

The NGO "Light For The World" is offering the following position:

- Trachoma/NTD Programme Coordinator

"Light For The World" is a European confederation of national development NGOs aiming at an inclusive society. We strive for a world in which persons with disabilities have a decent life, participate equally in society, and have access to their rights... see the job description.

Jobs and Career in Germany or Switzerland

If you are a medical specialist or a medical assistant with good knowledge of the German language (at least level B2), apply now at Going International for these specialities:

Internal medicine
Specialization in surgery, vascular surgery or visceral surgery
Radiology

If you are interested please send us your detailed CV as a Word-document to office@goinginternational.org.
Please write in the subject line:"GI-Mail 08/2014".

You can also find a wide range of job vacancies in the German Job Newsletter.

Communication tips by Medics on the Move

Medics on the Move (MoM) is a language learning programme of Communication for Professionals, specially developed for professionals and pre-professionals using a second or foreign language in a medical context.

MoM aims to provide medical professionals and pre-professionals working abroad or in a language-discordant context with language tools and support to help them function effectively in their new workplace. The e-learning platforms guide their users in a medical context by means of written and spoken conversation scenarios, a database of medical terminology, grammar tips and a manual on medical and intercultural communication.

This month's edition will help you communicate effectively by using understandable language (tips will be continued in the next newsletter)...read more.