by Jakob Riedl. In summer 2015 a good friend of mine and I decided to do a clinical elective abroad. After reading plenty of elective reports we chose the Karapitiya Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka, for our internship. There were a few reasons for our choice. First of all, English […]

16th February 2019 to 4th May 2019, online course. This academy is an online program consisting of a series of activities. It includes expert instructor-led, live webinars, interactive e-learning modules, knowledge checks and tests, which can all be completed next to a full-time job. The schedule is as follows: 8 […]

2nd to 4th October 2019, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. Come and join us for the 22nd EHFG and help us to build a capacity to navigate a better future for health in Europe in these volatile times. The 2019 EHFG Call for Proposals is open – download the Session Proposal Form here, if […]

by PD Dr. Katja Goetz. There is a close relationship between general health status and oral health. Therefore, to ensure good quality of care an important contribution is the consideration of oral health care in health services research. However oral health services research is a developing discipline. E.g. to handle […]

by Enise Beyzanur Ceran. First of all, let me start with a quote by Virginia Woolf: “To walk alone in London is the greatest rest”. In order to experience working in London and to get to know the British health care system, I decided to do a one-month elective in […]

World Leprosy Day is observed on the last Sunday in January. The next World Leprosy Day will be taking place on 27th January 2019. The day was chosen by French humanitarian Raoul Follereau in 1953 to coincide with the anniversary of Mahatma Ghandi’s death on 30th January 1948. World Leprosy […]

4th to 5th March 2019, Vienna, Austria. The European Congress on Innovation in Diabetes (Diabetes-Innovations 2019), the first congress to comprehensively focus on nanotechnology, will take place from 4th to 5th March 2019 in Vienna, Austria. Diabetes technology has developed over the last decades to become an essential component of diagnosis and care […]

9th to 11th March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand. We are proud to invite you to join us at the 12th Annual Poverty and Social Protection Conference (PSPC 2019), that will take place from March 9th to 11th 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is organized by Tomorrow People Organization, an internationally recognized non-profit […]

Start: anytime, online. If you’ve ever skipped over the results section of a medical paper because terms like “confidence interval” or “p-value” go over your head, then you’re in the right place. You may be a clinical practitioner reading research articles to keep up-to-date with developments in your field or […]

8th to 12th July 2019, Lake District, England, UK. Expedition Skills is a unique camping based multi-disciplinary programme run over 5 days and delivered by Wilderness Medical Training (WMT) and Wild Human at a remote, lake-side camp (close to Windermere) in the Lake District, England. You’ll learn expedition-proven skills ranging […]