Dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

In this issue you will find the following topics:
1. Course Tip:
   Knowledge Management for Development

2. Congress Tip:
   IHF 37th World Hospital Congress

3. Special of the month:
   »medicine & health 2012« early bird discount

4. Jobs
   Agaplesion gAG   
   Personal Job Consulting and Placement   

Warm regards,

Gerhard Polak, MD

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Knowledge Management for Development
December 13^th – 16^th, 2011, Ede (Netherlands)

Knowledge Management is about having the right information at the right place and at the right time. It captures, filters and assimilates organisational knowledge and streamlines it for maximum utilisation of organisational goals. It is critical for effective and efficient operations in the development field.

Course objectives
At the end of the course:
    • You will understand what knowledge and knowledge management is and what it
       can mean for you
    • You will know the uniqueness and relevance of knowledge management
       for development
    • You will be able to start a participatory process to develop a
       knowledge management strategy
    • You will gain insight in the importance and adoption of effective technology
       to support knowledge processes
    • Finally, you will gain ideas how to stimulate staff in your organisation to
       become active actors in knowledge processes

For further information about this course please click here.

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IHF 37th World Hospital Congress
November 8^th – 10^th, 2011, Dubai

IHF 37^th World Hospital Congress is formulated on the theme of 'Healthcare in a Changing World: Overcoming the Challenges'.

As the process of globalization increases everywhere throughout the world the current escalating status of the Public Health and Medical Industry in UAE, the Gulf Region and in the Arab World, IHF Dubai 37th World Hospital Congress shall provide a platform for the experts in the field of hospitals, medicine and healthcare to exchange their views and opinions. The event will definitely have an impact in the health care policies world wide.

Further information about this congress can be found here.

For the scientific program please click here.

The registration form is available here.

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Current job vacancies

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 assistants and consultants for our clinics.

Frankfurt
AGAPLESION MARKUS KRANKENHAUS
    • Senior Physician (m/f) Internal Medicine with focus on Pulmonology and
       Resident (m/f) in the advanced training stage in full-time… more

Wuppertal
AGAPLESION BETHESDA KRANKENHAUS
    • Resident (m/f) in training for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery… more

Hamburg
AGAPLESION DIAKONIEKLINIKUM HAMBURG
    • Specialist Anaesthesia (m/f) respectively Resident (m/f) in advanced training… more    
    • Resident (m/f) for the Medical and Geriatric Clinic of the Department of
       Diabetology… more