13th to 16th May 2019, Plas y Brenin, United Kingdom. An exciting 4-day Expedition and Wilderness Medicine course, which aims to open up the world of expedition medicine to all medical professionals and help you mix adventure into your career, will take place in Plas y Brenin, Wales. It is designed […]

by Kristine Sørensen PhD, MPH. Health literacy is an emerging area of human and societal investment. Moving from the margin to the mainstream – attention has increased worldwide on how to improve the health literacy of people, communities, organizations, systems and societies. Health literacy is linked to literacy and entails […]

Communication tips by Nursing on the Move. Are you a medical professional who uses a foreign language at work? Do you have a friend who speaks a foreign language at work or has a cultural background different from colleagues/customers? Different cultures may have different ideas of what kind of verbal communication is […]

Communication tips by Nursing on the Move. Are you a medical professional who uses a foreign language at work? Have you ever been in this situation? Not knowing how to comfort a patient in distress. Not remembering how to say or pronounce a word. Knowing the medical term, but not being […]

2nd to 4th October 2019, Bad Hofgastein, Austria. While we have made considerable advances in health, there are a number of areas that seem to be at a stalemate despite ample evidence on how to move forward. Examples include the topic of health reforms in general, tackling AMR, addressing health […]

1st to 12th July 2019, London, United Kingdom. The Epidemiology of a Vaccine Epidemiological research has become an important tool in assessing vaccine protection. Although there are several courses specialising in vaccinology, there remains a gap in teaching about advanced epidemiological tools for vaccine evaluation. This short course fills that […]

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 […]