29th to 31st March 2020, Vienna, Austria. The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) is the leading European EP conference and will tackle “Joining forces to overcome arrhythmias” The EHRA congress brings together scientists, healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders involved in the arrhythmia management from all around the world. A […]

22nd to 27th March 2020, Naivasha, Kenya. The course will focus on international law and standards applicable during armed conflict. It is designed to help the participants to find, understand and apply that framework to achieve their professional humanitarian objectives. The course will cover the: Origins, structure, principles and rules […]

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 […]