Europe Newsletter - August 2015

Volume 3 - August 2015

A Message from the Coordinator

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Dear IFMSA European Region, Some time has passed since our last newsletter was issued, and many many things have happened!

We were represented in the European Youth Forum Council of Members, in Brussels; our amazing European Regional Meeting and respective preEuRegMe took place in Denmark; the region was represented in the 10th TTIP Round of Stakeholders with negotiators.

In this newsletter, we will go through some of these achievements, at the same time that our European National Organizations will present some of their activities and projects.

The region is currently getting ready and gearing up for the IFMSA General Assembly in Ohrid, Macedonia, in August and attention, there is an open call for the IFMSA Europe delegation for the WHO 65th Regional Committee in Vilnius, Lithuania!

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Practical surgical skills training in undergraduate medical education worldwide - Students’ experience

Medical education widely covers theoretical surgical knowledge, but practical skills are less represented.

As future doctors, medical students need to be provided with both, regardless of their final specialty.

In order to cope with lack of surgical practical courses in medical education several student-led initiatives have arisen with different scope and objectives in numerous countries, using non-formal education to create learning opportunities.

unknown to any overseeing medical education institution, leading to quality standards largely variable.

Study aimed to explore the exposure, usefulness and satisfaction of medical students worldwide to practical surgical skills teaching programs, either Since so far there hasn’t compulsory or optional, either been a large-scale analysis student-led or institution-led, in of initiatives that tackle this medical curricula. problem, an international team was formed and worked If you find this topic important hard to investigate this topic, please fill in our survey and systematically reviewing the share it with your friends in your literature and exchanging the university and other universities! experience with several medical students’ associations and http://bit.do/surgicalskills leading experts in the area of medical education and surgery.

Katarina Mandic, Ljiljana Those initiatives often stayed As a result of that work, a study Lukic, Eleonora Leopardi, unrecognized and largely was created.

Ivana Di Salvo

TurkMSIC SCOME Helps You Build Your Career

Last year, in 2014, TurkMSIC as medical students.

SCOME founded a new unit After a huge workload and called Medical Career Unit. long hours of endeavor the unit developed two different The aim of the team was to websites: create a database of medical schools and hospitals’ 1) www.tiptercihim.com departments nationwide.

In Turkey, high school graduates Thus, TurkMSIC would be able take a central exam, which to provide with guidance to both allows students to enroll in high school graduates as well higher education programs,

including medical degree programs.

This website is designed as a guide for high school graduates, and especially is a database of medical schools in Turkey.

Now, it includes 47 medical schools and gives you some in-depth knowledge about the facilities of the schools, as well as medical education etc.

These websites hold an extremely importance as guides to both highschool and medical students.

Stats follow this statement, too: 2) www.tustercihim.com graduates with information More than 155k users viewed of different departments and the sites! So, after all, one can state that TurkMSIC SCOME After finishing the medical working environments. helps you build your career! school, graduates take another central exam to get placed in a If the visitor has questions even Mehmet Serhat Yıldırım residency program. This website after viewing the whole website, is designed to help medical one is able to address questions students and medical students to residents in each program.

Different Faces of Surgery - 2nd LIMC 2015

IFMSA-Poland Local Committee in Lublin would like to present to all of the medical students the beauty of science and art of surgery in a greater perspective.

In cooperation with MUL Students Research Society we have an honour to invite you to the Second Lublin International Medical Congress, which will take place 11-12th December 2015 in Lublin, Poland.

Apart from traditional medical sessions we invite our participants to present their reports on research in public health, humanistic medicine, ethics and human rights, pharmacology and genetics.

the experience not only among We hope to see you in Lublin medical professions. this December!

This year our participants will The invitation package is attend the lectures held by available on the facebook experts of robotics surgery and fanpage of the Congress.

We would like to present the medical law, and practice their Maria Gołębiowska international view on the surgical skills during the wide surgical difficulties around variety of workshops, f.ex. basic the world during the lecture surgical techniques, vascular on Globalization of Surgery surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and provide interprofessional radiological workshops for cooperation and exchange of future surgeons.

Little doctor

On 24th of May Kazan State University (KSMU) Volunteers’ Movement “Our Choice” and Tatarstan Medical Students Association conducted an activity named “Little doctor”.

Similar activities are being held all around the world in order to prevent the fear of doctors among little children. But in this case students of KSMU visited children in Ronald McDonald house.

They are the ones who need special support and attention – all of them are seriously ill and

undergo palliative treatment in the Children Republic Clinical Hospital.

As a part of the activity, volunteers taught children basic medical skills: measuring pulse and blood pressure, auscultation, percussion and applying bandages. Children were very assiduous and attentive.

During the activity children were getting special cards for the outstanding performance. In the end of the event they changed cards on sweet gifts. Volunteers also made them some animal figures from balloons.

Students created an atmosphere of holiday for the little patients.

They were performing all the I hope it would help children tasks with pleasure and every to feel happier and to recover kid was wearing white coat and faster if it is possible! medical hat to feel more like a real doctor.

Anna Vaiman

Research Workshop for the first time in Poland

As National Coordinator of Project PET & RW in IFMSAPoland I would like to tell you about Research Workshop which happened for the first time in Poland on 18th April 2015 at Silesia Medical University in Katowice.

issues especially how to read and write scientific articles.

There were three lectures delivered by Professors from Silesia Medical University from Katowice.

First lecture delivered by Aleksander L. Sieron MD PhD was titled ‘How to plan and make This is something new in our effectively research work?’.

NMO and something we are After the short break when proud about. students got opportunity to meet each other and brainstorm During this event we were about the research issues we talking about research related got the second lecture titled

‘Evidence Based Medicine’ which was delivered by Tomasz Francuz MD PhD. Last but not least important we got the chance to get to know ‘How to write properly bibliography to research work?’ during the lecture delivered my Ewa Rojczyk MSc. We encourage all NMOs to organize Research Workshop in their NMOs. Marta Joanna Borys

Something called obsessions

Have you ever imagined that you will be so interested in a particular topic that you will dedicate all your free time to learn everything about it?

we divide in SWGs to work on matters that SCORA stands for, such as Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion, Comprehensive Sexual Education or Sexuality and Well, neither did we.

Gender Identity, and problems that we fight against, like HIV In Romania we started working and other STIs and Gender on issues concerning Sexual Based Violence. and Reproductive Health including HIV and AIDS in such For all of this to happen, we an intense manner that we can published a manual for SCORA call it our obsession. volunteers in which all of those As volunteers for Standing topics are explained and shared Committee SCORA we organize some ideas on how can we periodic assemblies where implement them on a national

level wether through advocacy work, campaigns or projects.

Because reproductive health is a very wide subject, raging from sexual rights to women`s health, we settle periodic trainings and campaigns, both for general public and medical students, having as main purpose raising awareness and knowledge about actual society`s problems.

Alexandru - Marian Grozavescu

Pre-Exchange Training for the second time in Poland

As National Project Coordinator of Pre-exchange Training & Research Workshop I would like to tell you that we made this year 11 PETs in 11 Local Committees of IFMSA-Poland!

More than 150 students took part in those workshops and those students were not only outgoings but also those who are simply interested in the topics of those meetings or keen on joining SCORE and IFMSA and it is one of the

opportunities they can get a hint of what SCORE and IFMSA is about.

PET workshops happened in March/April this year for the second time in our country and we are more than proud about it!

In agendas of all meetings were always trainings of soft skills (Motivation & Autopresentation) delivered by the members of IFMSA-Poland Trainings Division, memories of exoutgoings from their Research Exchanges, lectures about

lab work and writing articles and in the end presentation about Academic Quality and preparation for SCORE trip.

We do our best to prepare our outgoing students for their SCORE adventure. We would like to encourage other SCORE active countries to organize PET and to provide the same opportunity for all outgoing students around the world.

Marta Joanna Borys

External priorities and Regional Policy Papers

One of the biggest results of the European Regional Meeting, that took place in Aarhus (Denmark) from April 24th to April 28th, was the approval of the Regional Policy Papers on the topics that were approved during the last March Meeting: Human Resources for Health, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and Health and Mental Health.

priorities and achieve more needs and challenges faced in effective external representation the Region, that can be used as in Europe. a more focused and effective advocacy tool.

At MM15 in Turkey, the NMOs selected three topics considered It is certainly an interesting as the most significant and experiment that should be important for all of them. Then implemented, and we really a SWG started working on hope that other Regions will the drafts of Regional Policy follow the example of Europe Papers that were discussed, in order to fully optimise their amended and adopted during advocacy power! the EuRegMe. As you may know, this year one Marie Hauerslev of the goals of the European A Regional Policy Paper can be Team was to define a common considered as an addition to Advocacy strategy for the the IFMSA Policy Statements, Region in order to define the which is more oriented to the

See you next issue!