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. […]

   by Alexander Pichler. From February to March 2018 I was doing a two-months clerkship at the Department of Radiology in the hospital Vivantes Klinik am Urban. This hospital is a part of the Vivantes Hospital Group and a teaching hospital of the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.I chose Berlin to become […]

29th February to 4th March 2020, Sun Valley, Idaho, USA. Sun Valley is where destination skiing was born. In addition to the opportunity to experience some of the best snowshoeing and skiing in the United States, conference highlights include: Up to 26.5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM and FAWM core and elective credits. […]

28th to 30th January, Stockholm, Sweden. The ECDC Winter Workshop 2020 will focus on “The science of using science to support policy making for prevention and control of communicable diseases”. The overall aim of this workshop is to strengthen capacity among public health specialists in Member States of the European […]

Start: anytime, online course. This course will equip clinicians who frequently prescribe antimicrobials with knowledge and tools to improve their use of these essential medications in daily clinical practice. Through case based examples, the course will highlight how antimicrobial stewardship principles can be applied to common clinical scenarios. We will […]

This year‘s European Health Forum Gastein (EHFG), held from 2-4 October in Bad Hofgastein, focused on the topic of “A healthy dose of disruption? Transformative change for health and societal well-being”. Around 600 attendees representing the four pillars of the EHFG – public sector, private sector, science and academia, and […]

by Lilian van der Ven, MD, Amsterdam UMC In the Netherlands, a physician who has passed the final examinations in medicine can pursue training in an area of medical specialization. There are four types of specialist training: General Practitioner: 3 years; Specialist: 4-6 years; Public Health Specialist: 2.5-4 years and Nursing Home […]

27th to 29th February 2020, London, United Kingdom. This course is designed to help clinicians, physicists and radiographers to develop comprehensive programmes for the clinical implementation of image guided radiotherapy. The course has been awarded 19 RCR Category I CPD credits under The Royal College of Radiologists CPD scheme. The curriculum covers […]

12th to 13th November 2019, London, United Kingdom. Acute and General Medicine is the leading medical conference for doctors from all grades and specialties to get the latest clinical guidance and hands-on training across all of the core clinical specialty areas at the most affordable rate available in the UK. The […]