by Lilian van der Ven, MD, Amsterdam UMC. Current and future developments For a number of years, the number of residents in social medicine has been lagging behind, resulting in an imminent shortage of social medicine specialists. To counteract this, in 2016 the Ministry of Health proposed a new approach […]

6th to 8th February 2020, Vienna, Austria. This course aims to train health care professionals in current infection prevention and control (IPC) practices focusing particularly on technical hygiene issues, including the inanimate hospital environment and reprocessing of medical devices, to prevent and reduce hospital acquired infection (HAI). This technical workshop supplies the […]

7th to 9th March 2020, Athens, Greece. We are delighted to officially welcome you to Athens from 7th to 9th March 2020 for the annual congress of the Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (Acca) of the ESC. This congress brings together cardiologists, intensivists, anaesthetists, internists, cardiac surgeons, nurses, paramedics and other […]

by Marie-Sophie Kaltenbrunner. Some time ago I had the fantastic opportunity to spend three months in beautiful Italy. During my 5th year of medical school I decided to visit a great city in the south of Italy called Naples. I completed three months elective in the subjects Gynaecology, Ophthalmology/ENT and […]

18. bis 25. April 2020, Herbriggen im Wallis, Schweiz. Um als verantwortliche/-r Arzt oder Ärztin ein Trekking oder eine Expedition kompetent betreuen zu können, sind heute eine ganze Reihe von Qualifikationen notwendig. Neben profunden Kenntnissen in Allgemein-, Notfall- und Reisemedizin gilt dabei das Wissen um höhenbedingte Erkrankungen und deren Therapie als selbstverständlich. Aber was bringt der/die […]

At the premises of the European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), held from 2-4 October in Bad Hofgastein, the Hackathon on vaccine hesitancy was conducted. Jointly organised with EIT Health, the second EHFG Hackathon call was open to experts from different sectors interested in developing innovative solutions for health-related problems. A […]

4th to 7th December 2019, Vienna Austria. EuroEcho is the annual congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the world’s leading echocardiography congress. This year’s main themes will be Cardiomyopathies and Imaging in Acute Cardiac Care. The aim of EuroEcho will be to create an exciting forum, in which […]

Start: anytime, online course. Seasonal influenza is an acute viral disease of the respiratory tract transmitted via aerosols or contaminated surfaces from infected people. This course provides a general introduction to the disease through a short video lecture and quizzes to test your knowledge. It targets personnel involved in seasonal […]

14th November, worldwide. Globally, an estimated 422 million adults were living with diabetes in 2014, compared to 108 million in 1980. The global prevalence of diabetes has nearly doubled since 1980, rising from 4.7% to 8.5% in the adult population. This reflects an increase in associated risk factors such as […]

18th to 21st March 2020, Auckland, New Zealand. The Asia Pacific Travel Health Conference (APTHS) will be 20 years old in 2020 and will build on their considerable past experience and promises an exciting program and successful conference, with topics especially pertinent to their region, but of interest to all. […]