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!1 POST SA BOOKLET E M S A S P R I N G A S S E M B LY 2 0 1 8
!2 IMPRESSUM EMSA European Medical Students’ Association Except where otherwise noted, content of this - Association Européenne des Étudiants en publication is licensed under a creative Médecine (EMSA) is a non-profit, non- commons attribution international license. governmental organisation representing more than 150.000 medical students from over 110 faculties across Europe. Founded in 1990, in Editor: Brussels, it is the voice of students within the Tugce CETIN European Commission, the Council of Europe Vice President of Capacity and the United Nations. The association provides a platform for high-level advocacy, projects, Associate Editor: trainings workshops and international meetings. Ece CALISAN Its activities gather around Medical Education, General Assistant to VP Capacity Medical Ethics and Human Rights, Health Policy, Public Health, Medical Science and European Contributors: Integration and Culture. EMSA European Board 2017-2018 Our Vision Publication Date: Shaping a solitary and united Europe, where 19.04.2018 medical students actively promote health Our Mission EMSA empowers medical students to advocate health in all policies, excellence in medical research, inter-professional healthcare education and the protection of human rights across Europe Publisher European Medical Students Association (EMSA) EMSA General Secretariat C/O CPME Standing Committee of European Doctors Rue Guimard 15 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel. +32 273 272 02 www.emsa-europe.eu info@emsa-europe.eu
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Dear EMSA family,
It gives me great honor to present you the post-GA information
booklet for EMSA Spring Assembly 2018. This booklet is the first of its
kind in EMSA, and it is made possible through the team work of EMSA
European Board 17-18. Our intentions for this booklet is to create a
platform to share the activities which took place between 23-28th
of March in Ohrid.
This booklet covers the various sections of EMSA Spring Assembly
2018, Ohrid, which over 290 participants gathered together across
Europe. 20 out of 29 countries of EMSA, total of 69% of all countries
present in EMSA were represented in SA2018.
The theme of the assembly was Disaster Medicine, and during the six days of the
assembly, participants attended various sessions, including pillar sessions, symposium, and workshops to
discuss the subject and expand their knowledge on the field of disaster medicine.
During the General Assembly, representatives and participants had the chance to discuss the future of our
association, vote on important motions to change the internal rules of our association and candidatures for
EMSA Executive Board 18-19, EMSA European Board 17-18, and EMSA Events 2018. Moreover, we have voted
upon four policy statements, on the topics of European Alcohol Politics Policy, EU-US Mobility Survey, Electronic
Information on Medical Products, and Organ Donation Across Europe to endorse as an association. All of the
implemented policy statements and other active EMSA policy statements are accessible through EMSA Website.
Moreover, participants presented their faculties and projects across Europe, in Twinning Market and Projects
fair. Photos from the assembly can be found through the link shared in the participants group. Furthermore, a
video and photo collage of the assembly will be shared from EMSA social media platforms in the upcoming
days.
In this booklet, you may find details about the sessions which took place during SA2018, excerpts of important
decisions which was made, and news about the upcoming events and news from EMSA Europe. We hope you
enjoy this new publication, and encourage you to submit any feedback about this booklet through the link
provided here: https://goo.gl/forms/PMgC6xHRtUy6jfEv2
On behalf of the EMSA European Board and Department of Capacity,
Tugce Cetin
EMSA Vice President of Capacity 17-18
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CONTENTS
Plenary News 5 Opening Ceremony 56
& EVP
Election Results 8
EuroMeds Magazine 59
Passed Policy Statements 12
Upcoming EMSA Events 60
NC Sessions’ Briefing 14
Awards 64
LC Sessions’ Briefing 16
Pillars’ Corner 19
Trainings’ Corner 40
Workshops’ Corner 46
MEDx EMSA 49
Symposium Corner 51
General Remarks on 54
Guests & Representatives
!5 Plenary News The plenary sessions during the SA'18 have been extremely productive. We had six plenary sessions. Sessions began as always, with the elections of the Chairperson and Vice- Chairperson (Sabrina Reif, Danaja Plevel), the Plenary Secretary and his team (Nikolaos Xifaras, Rana Orhan, Mustafa Efe Sukuroglu), Constitutional Commission (Myrna Tan, Markus Trost, Ziga Barbaric) and Credential Commission (Wioleta Kitowska, Eugenia Dumbravanu, Lily Boicheva, Alp Kavaklioglu, Ahmet Tas) and the first motion which was the official ''Opening of the General Assembly’'. First of all, we would like to share with you our new full member FMOs that have been accepted by the general assembly: EMSA-Chisinau EMSA-Eskisehir AMSB-Sofia EMSA-Istanbul AMS-Plovdiv During the first plenary sessions, the Supervisory Council, Executive Board, Constitutional Commission and Financial Commission midterm reports were presented and adopted. Then, the agenda moved on to presentations and elections of EB and EEB members for 2017/18 and 2018/19. (The election results are given in the next section of this booklet!) We are congratulating them once again here for their election! Subsequently, candidature presentations and election were held for 2018 and 2019 EMSA European Meetings, after which EMSA Cluj was chosen as the host of Autumn Assembly 2018, EMSA Heidelberg was chosen as the host of Spring Assembly 2019 and EMSA LMU Munich was chosen as the host of Training Center of Excellence 2018.
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Plenary News
The next part of the agenda was the discussion of motions to change the EMSA Internal
Rules. Some of the most important changes are:
• The EMSA EEB has been divided into Departments so that the work can be conducted
more efficiently and regularly.
• The Public Relations Officer (PRO) position was included to the EEB in order to reduce
the workload of the VPC and improve the efficiency of EMSA’s public relations efforts.
• The EMSA European Week Of Ethics (EWE), an annual event that has been organized 4
times, was replaced with the new BlueCon, which shall include all the pillars of EMSA
in a more comprehensive and professional event.
• A motion aimed at increasing the limit of participation fees of EMSA events according
to a more detailed system has been developed with the ideas of multiple FMOs under
the initiative of EMSA Heidelberg.
After many productive sessions of discussions, presentations, arguments and elections, the
Assembly had to vote, with heavy hearts, on the saddest of the motions, the “Closing of the
General Assembly”.
!7 Plenary News EMSA Executive Board 17/18 Midterm Report EMSA President Teuta Azizi together with EMSA Secretary General Nick Xifaras and EMSA Vice President of Capacity Tugce Cetin presented the activities of EMSA European Board 17/18 which included EB and EEB Face-to-Face Meetings outcome, European Week of Ethics 2018 and EMSA External Priorities 17/18. Information on the Approved Partnerships & Finance Report The Annual Financial Report 2017 prepared by the Treasurer had been audited by the EMSA Financial Commission and was adopted by the Spring Assembly. New partnerships with AMBOSS, Semmelweis University Student’s Scientific Association- TDK, RF Anatomy and Approbation4U were presented to the assembly. The Visual Identity Manual Presentation The EMSA Visual identity is what makes up the physical look of the Association. It consists the official logos, color schemes, templates and many other sections that represents EMSA. During the Spring Assembly, Vice President of Capacity delivered a presentation highlighting the recent changes and improvements in VIM to inform the general assembly. The changes mainly consisted of updates on the digital templates of EMSA, such as desktop and mail backgrounds. We encourage all members to check the updated VIM through THIS LINK, which also can be found through EMSA Intranet.
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ELECTION RESULTS
Elections of EMSA European Board Elections of Executive Board 18-19
17-18
Tugce Cetin - EMSA President elect 18/19
Teuta Azizi - EMSA President 17/18
Nikolaos C. Xifaras - EMSA Secretary
Orsolya Suli - EMSA Vice President of General elect 18/19
External Affairs 17/18
Orsolya Suli - EMSA Vice President of
Sebastian Weyn Banningh - EMSA External Affairs elect 18/19
European Institutions Liaison Officer 17/18
Yordan Kovatchev - EMSA Vice President of
Batuhan Ocbe - EMSA Resource Internal Affairs elect 18/19
Development Officer 17/18
Ece Calisan - EMSA Vice President of
Capacity elect 18/19
Atalay Demiray - EMSA Treasurer elect
18/19
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ELECTION RESULTS
Elections of EMSA Events 18-19
Training Center of Excellence 2018 Munich
The next Training Center of Excellence will take place
between 3-11 August, in Untermaxfeld, Germany! More
details on the event can be found in the Upcoming EMSA
Events section of this booklet and EMSA Europe Website.
!10 ELECTION RESULTS Elections of EMSA Events 18-19 Autumn Assembly 2018 Cluj During SA2018, EMSA Cluj’s candidature for hosting the EMSA Autumn Assembly 2018 was presented to the assembly, and accepted! The event will take place in Cluj-Napoca, between 1-7th of September. The preparations for the assembly are already underway: the signed contract of the event was shared with local and national coordinators, and the registrations for representatives will open on 20th of April! Exciting details on the event can be found in the Upcoming EMSA Events section of this booklet and EMSA Europe Website.
!11 ELECTION RESULTS Elections of EMSA Events 18-19 Spring Assembly 2019 Heidelberg EMSA Heidelberg presented their candidature for hosting the Spring Assembly 2019, and was accepted by General Assembly! We are looking forward to working together in the upcoming months to collaborate to craft the best assembly experience possible. Stay tuned in EMSA channels for more details in the upcoming months!
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PASSED POLICY STATEMENTS
Title: Electronic Information on
Pharmaceutical Products
Responsible Pillar: European Health
Policy Pillar
We, as European medical students,
envision a central website that is
accessible to all European
citizens, based on a centrally organised database implemented and supervised by the
European Medicines Agency (EMA), created by an interdisciplinary and international
team (including EC, NCAs, pharmaceutical experts, consumer and patient
representatives, health care professional representatives).
Plan of action:
The statement will be sent out to the external partners of EMSA. To implement the
visions stated in the policy EMSA aims to raise awareness for the need of a central
website, follow up with the progress and developments being made and finally help
promote the final product among future health care professionals!13
PASSED POLICY STATEMENTS
Title: Organ Donation Across Europe
Responsible Pillar: EMSA Public Health Pillar
Regarding the current situation in Europe, it can easily be said that number
of organ donations are nowhere near enough for the ever-growing waiting
list. Even though statistics such as “donations per million people” are
considerably higher in many European countries than every other
country in the world, thousands of lives are lost because of the
inadequacy in organ donation.
Plan of action:
The extensive call to action of this policy has many suggestions
to governments and relevant stakeholders, as well as to
faculties of medicine. The policy statement especially points out
the need to increase medical students empathy and communication
skills. It further asks implementations of trainings into the medical
curriculum particularly for educating medical students on organ donation
including the clear distinction between brain death and cardiac death and
the eligibility criteria for donors.!14 NC SESSIONS’ BRIEFING The 1st NC Session started with a warm welcoming from our Secretary General, Nikolaos C. Xifaras, and our President, Teuta Azizi. Firstly, the NCs shared their comments on the term so far, which showed a positive outlook on the direction of our organisation. Afterwards, the discussions focused on financial and external meeting reports, policy papers and future plans on policy system of EMSA, and finally, the motions submitted by our members to change IRs. The motions “Approval of members at GAs” and “Meetings’ registration fee” were the main points of consideration. In the 2nd NC Session, the discussion of motions submitted by the EB took over most of the time. Other topics deliberated upon were: • Notification of national/local statutes to the EEB • Eligibility for the EEB and the Supervisory Council • EEB/SupCo involvement at the local level • Role of SupCo in EMSA
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NC SESSIONS’ BRIEFING
In the 3rd NC Session, we had some interactive group-working activities focused on basic
problems of EMSA that we currently face. The three main topics for our activity time were
GA delegation selection, Event finances and NC Bylaws. After productive discussions done
by our groups, they presented their work which was the source of a great amount of
constructive debate.
In the 4th and the last NC Session of SA18, our agenda included significant remarks, inputs,
ideas and comments on the topics listed below:
•EEB emergency response to events
•Handover
•Feedback forms/system
•Annual/quarterly reporting
•Membership rules
•EuroMeds Online
•Intranet
•Assistance from EEB to NCs/LCs
To sum up, all the NC Sessions we had during SA18 were really important for preparing NCs
and their delegations. This, in the end, led to a better environment during the plenaries.
With our fruitful discussions, the awareness of the current status of EMSA among NCs was
improved and possible solutions for important issues were constructed. We hope that the
work being done there will serve as a good starting point for future ventures of our
organisation.!16
LC SESSIONS’ BRIEFING
For the first time, Local Coordinators gathered together in a platform to discuss matters
regarding FMOs in LC sessions in an EMSA General Assembly. There were two LC Sessions during the
assembly, and since there was not a similar meeting before, LCs were asked for their input on the
agenda and content of the sessions, and the agenda of the LC sessions were crafted from those
inputs. The receptions for the sessions were mainly positive, EMSA European Board is looking
forward to implement your suggestions to next assemblies for even more productive and fruitful
sessions.
The excerpts from the sessions can be accessed below. Full documentation and minutes of
the sessions, along with the feedback received (written+ digital) will be shared with all
EMSA Local Coordinators through their mail accounts in the upcoming weeks.!17
LC SESSIONS’ BRIEFING
Session 1
The first point of the agenda was member
recruitment strategies of FMOs across Europe.
Local Coordinators discussed what each FMO
is doing in the beginning of the year on
member recruitment, and had a
brainstorming session on what more can be
done. Each LC ranked their performance
when it comes to member recruitment, and
discussed their strengths and weaknesses on
this area.
After the discussion, Tugce (Vice President
of Capacity 17-18) gave a quick tour of the
existing EMSA resources that FMOs can use on member recruitment, and give
suggestions on how to make use of them in order to provide FMOs effective tools for
gaining new volunteers.
In the second point of the agenda, local coordinators discussed the types of
motivation and shared the difficulties they are facing in keeping the existing
members motivated within the FMO. Then, we had a think tank experiment in which
coordinators wrote what keeps them motivated, and we discussed the components of
each. After the discussion, the LCs of FMOs who are having productive results shared
their experiences and discussed potential methods to keep the existing members
motivated in EMSA.!18
LC SESSIONS’ BRIEFING
Session 2
The second session began with the
presentation on the current member
acceptance to the EMSA Europe events, in
which Tugce Cetin, VPC presented the
delegation selection to European events. The
struggles within the FMOs regarding the
selection process are asked, and the local
coordinators had a discussion both involving
one of the proposed motions on the matter,
and how to improve the system in general.
In the next point, LCs answered an EMSA
Focus Areas quiz in which they have tried to
remember the EMSA Focus Areas announced
for the term.
Then, local coordinators shared the support they are receiving from external
partners & organizations and sponsors. The subject was divided into moral and
financial support, and benefits of both were discussed.!19
PILLARS CORNER
PUBLIC HEALTH PILLAR
Session One: Mental Health in Disaster Medicine
Keywords: mental health, disasters,
psychological distress, support
Description:
Since this was the first pillar session for this term
and assembly, there was a short introduction of
the Public Health pillar team, its priorities for this
term, the work that we have been doing so far, external
and internal collaborations of the pillar and the plans for
future policy statements.
After that a short introduction about the Disaster Medicine was given to the
participants and we elaborated more the impact of the disasters on the mental health
of the victims and the impact on the mental health of the healthcare providers. We
discussed about the most common sign and symptoms that can be found during the
stress reaction of the individual and the basics of the psychological first aid and how
to provide it. Moreover, we discussed about the advantages and disadvantages of the
1:1 crisis counseling and the group therapy on overcoming the psychological distress
resulting from the disasters. In the end we discussed about the cognitive and affective
empathy among the healthcare professionals as causes of secondary traumatic
distress.
The last part of the session included group work where we divided the participants in
two groups where one of them had to give ideas on how to support the mental health
of the affected people during disasters and the other group had to give ideas on how
to provide mental health support for the health care professionals working on disaster
medicine.!20
PILLARS CORNER
PUBLIC HEALTH PILLAR
Session Two: Epidemics and the role of the
vaccines
Keywords: vaccine, prevention, epidemics, myths
Description:
At the beginning of the session the participants
were introduced with the history of vaccines
discovery and their usage throughout centuries. They
were able to get a clear sight of the impact of vaccination
done right in preventing most of the deadly epidemics around the
world and also learn more about the ingredients and classification of the vaccines.
Most importantly, together we discussed about the vaccine hesitancy and the vaccine
myths as the most damaging medical hoax of the century. During the session we also
shared some vaccine communication principles on how to respond to vocal vaccine
deniers and how to educate the general public about vaccines.
The second part of the session was more interactive where participants were divided in
groups of 3 or 4 and were given a specific vaccine and a specific case. Inside each group
there were healthcare professionals and vaccine deniers or hesitant and the healthcare
providers had 3 minutes to convince the other part about the importance and the safety
of the vaccines.
As a conclusion, participants were divided in five groups and had to come with a plan on
how to organize the World Immunization Week. Each group’s ideas and plans were
presented in front of all participants and discussed on how we can use this ideas for
EMSA’s World Immunization Week Campaign.!21
PILLARS CORNER
PUBLIC HEALTH PILLAR
Session Three: Online awareness campaigns
session
Keywords: awareness campaign, members’
involvement, communication skills
Description:
This session was delivered by the Public Health
pillar and Medical Science pillar teams. The
participants had the chance to know more about the Online
Awareness Campaigns that were organized by these two pillar teams during this
term such as World Diabetes Day, AMR Awareness Week, World Aids Day, Dry January
Campaign-No Alcohol Challenge and World Cancer Day.
A timetable on how the organization of an online campaign goes was presented and
some tips and tricks from our experience were shared. Later we discussed about the
impact of the social media in revolutionizing the way the campaigns are organized
now days and the magnitude of the information we can share and the number of
people we can reach. We could not help but mention also the disadvantages of the
social media use for this purpose such as lack of privacy protection and active
dissemination of myths and misinformation by self-interested propagandists.
During the second part of the session participants were divided in 5 groups were
each of the groups had a specific awareness day campaign to plan and present.
These days were: World Heart Day, Mental Health Awareness Week, Hepatitis Day,
No Tobacco Day and Blood Donor Day.!22
PILLARS CORNER
PUBLIC HEALTH PILLAR
OUTLOOK
After this assembly we will continue
working on awareness days campaign and
policy statements, and taking in
consideration the tremendous input and
the ideas given from the participants during
pillar sessions. At the same time we will be
working even harder on World Immunization Week
Campaign and Mental Health Awareness Week, since Mental Health and
Vaccination are the main focus of the term.!23
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN HEALTH POLICY
PILLAR
Session 1: Introduction to Health Policy and Policy
Making
Key words: team building, health policy, policy
making.
Desciption:
The first pillar session was divided into two parts. During
the first half the participants were introduced to the
European Health Policy Pillar, it’s focus areas and activities
throughout the term. Newcomers got more insights in health policy and learned that health
is not just a result of individual factors, which is why we have to advocate for healthy
communities and effective health systems. Change can be attained both top-down or
bottom-up requiring an active role of medical students on all levels of involvement. With
policy paper being one way to actively take a stance the participants learned about key
aspects of policy making and papers. In this regard the proposal of EMSA Germany to
optimize policy making processes within EMSA was presented.
The second half of the session focused on clarifying the identity of the pillar. As this pillar is
still new to our organization the EHP team issued a survey in January asking reflective
questions on the scope of responsibilities and activities. During the session the participants
analyzed the results and discussed them among each other. We concluded that the European
Health Policy Pillar is different to other pillars as its identity is not derived from a value
(culture, human rights, education) but from means (policies) towards an end (health).
Further, the pillar can be seen as a bridge between the Department of Internal (DIA) and
External Affairs (DEA) being involved in activities of both departments.!24
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN HEALTH POLICY
PILLAR
Session 2: Digital Transformation in
Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges and
Implementation in the Medical Curriculum
K ey wo r ds: e H e a lt h , m e d i c a l c u rri c u lu m ,
digitization
Description:
The second session focused on one of the pillars main
topics also being one of EMSAs main focus areas for this term
- eHealth. The participants got introduced to the concept of eHealth
as well as different applications. Working on a concrete case study the group got creative
solving real healthcare hurdles by using digital innovations. We learned that reflecting the
challenges and opportunities is crucial in order to meaningfully implement eHealth solutions
in healthcare. As future healthcare professionals it is important that we actively engage in
the creation of the healthcare of tomorrow. The European Support Division of the EHP pillar
is currently working on a survey for medical students to indicate their knowledge and skills
in eHealth and express their opinion on how to implement eHealth literacy in the medical
curriculum. The drafted version was discussed during the session where useful input for the
future work of the ESD was given.!25
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN HEALTH POLICY
PILLAR
Session 3: Big Data - Small Disasters
Key words: big data, disaster medicine, emergency
management, technology
Description:
The third session focused on linking the previous topics
discussed in the sessions to the theme of the assembly -
disaster medicine. The participants learned what the term
big data actually means and got familiar with its most important
features as well as why and how big data is relevant in the healthcare
sector. In groups we discussed utopian and dystopian scenarios in which big data changes the
healthcare system for the better or worse. Using the results of the discussion we revisited policy
making by thinking of ways EMSA could have a stance on this matter. We thought of a general
structure and some key aspects of a possible policy paper and came up with recommendations
for other stakeholders.!26
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND
CULTURE PILLAR
Session One: EMSA Event for Culture
Keywords: Culture, Sharing, Promotion
Description :
In this first session, first of all, we had the chance to
introduce the European Integration and Culture Team, give
a brief overview on the Pillar and get to know the participants
better.
During this session, we wanted to focus and discuss about what
Culture is for each one of us, what it means to us, how it affects our lives and social interactions
and lastly discuss how we, as students, can provide in its promotion.
What is Culture? There have different answers to this question and the participants had the chance
to briefly discuss about their opinions and points of view: from culture as a “way of living in a
community” to culture as “traditions and experiences”. Afterwards, we moved on looking to Culture
in a more scientific and objective. We analyzed and gave examples of the basic aspects that
compose a Culture: Symbols, Language, Values and Norms. Interesting to notice is the distinction
between the last two where Values are beliefs and ideologies and Norms are the behaviour that
support those.
In the last part of the session, the participants worked in groups with the task
to imagine a possible project, local or international, that EMSA
could organise in order to promote Culture
throughout Europe. The ideas that were
presented were really interesting and showed us
the potential and great ideas our members have.
From the organisation of traditional cooking classes
to the organisation of multilingual theatre plays or
even the creation of an ideal EMSA Cultural Island,
these are all proposals our Pillar would like to
implement and empower in the future.PILLARS CORNER !27
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND
CULTURE PILLAR
Session Two: International Cooperation in Crisis
Situations
Keywords: International preparedness, outcome
improvement, education
Description:
Our second session was focused on the General Assembly’s
theme: Disaster Medicine. Before starting, the group discussed
briefly about what a crisis situation actually is. We presented different types of
crisis that can occur, such as political, economic and environmental ones, and how these can affect
each one of us, both as an individual and as a community.
When such a disaster happens on a larger scale or it is too massive to be dealt with by a single
country, the role of international cooperation becomes crucial. We emphasised this importance by
highlighting how international preparedness improves the outcomes in a critical situation. Those
improvements can be achieved by some steps that we, as future doctors and healthcare managers,
have to keep in mind where the main one is to build and apply an international education and drill
program.
In order to bring these concepts to reality, we presented some actual examples of disaster that
happened in the past in which the international support played a key role: Sinai bombings of 2004,
when Egypt and Israel collaborated on the medical front, and Bam earthquake, where over 40
countries offered directly their help in a dramatic situation.
We finished our presentation talking about SAGEC 67, a free-access database that provides
information about spare beds in several countries that could solve that over-load of emergency
departments in case of a disaster: a small step forward in the preparedness for a crisis situation.
Afterwards, we asked the participants to work in small groups and assign them various fictitious
emergency situations. We asked them to apply what we had discussed before and come up with a
plan to solve the situations. The participants have been really participative and it was interesting
to notice with them how having these plans of action prepared before an event like that happens
would have made the response faster and more effective.!28
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND
CULTURE PILLAR
Session Three: Multidisciplinary Mobility in Europe
Keywords: Interprofessional, Teamwork, Healthcare
Description:
We started our last pillar session by giving, together
with the participants, a definition of what a
multidisciplinary team is and discussed about the
structure and the importance of it. Afterwards, we
presented some of the benefits this interprofessional team
would have on the workplace: patient-centred care, team
mentality, closing communication gaps and minimize readmission rates. In the session, we had
the chance to confront about the existence of interprofessional collaboration in our
universities/hospitals.
In the next part of this pillar session, we presented the EPSA-EMSA Interprofessional Twin
Project: we took some minutes to go over the Handbook we created this year in a strong
collaboration with the EPSA Mobility Coordinator. There were some Twinning Projects
coordinators present in the room and they showed a high interest in this project.
In the end, we divided them into groups and asked them to create an interprofessional Twin
Project agenda, concentrating more on the educational program which had to suit both
medical students and the ones from other specialization. The participants were very creative
and they presented interesting, new ideas: a collaboration between medical and computer
science students (creating health apps: CPR, e-Health apps) or even a tri-collaboration
between medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary students.!29
PILLARS CORNER
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND
CULTURE PILLAR
OUTLOOK
After the Spring Assembly, the European Integration and
Culture Pillar will continue with plans we have been
already working on in the last months. Soon a call for
Intercontinental Twinning with AMSA will be opened and the
collection and publishing of material for the European Year of
Cultural Heritage Campaign will continue.
We really enjoyed hearing your feedback and suggestions in Macedonia. We really believe in
the contribution of our members and we will happy to implement your ideas and come up
with new projects for you!!30
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL ETHICS AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
Session One: Fundamentals of Human Rights
Keywords: Human Rights 101, Advocacy, Discrimination,
Refugee Rights
Description: Knowing how important Human Rights are
for each of us as future healthcare professionals, we
started our first pillar session with the topic
“Fundamentals of Human Rights”.
After introducing ourselves as the Medical Ethics and Human Rights pillar European Team, we
started the session with an ice-breaker to get to know each other better in a fun way. We continued
our session by giving information about the history of human rights and asked if they have read the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights before. Then we distributed the printed copies of “Universal
Declaration of Human Rights” among participants and discussed about other declarations and
conventions that protect human rights. Later on we presented a video telling the story of human
rights and explaining how it all began. Following that, we watched a street interview that questions
what people know about their rights in general and had discussions on these videos and answers of
the people who participated in the interview.
In the second part of the session we divided participants into 5 groups, asked them to discuss the
main discriminations in their home countries and writing them down. Afterwards, each group has
presented their group work, explaining the current situation in their counties and we had
discussions on each major issue altogether. Throughout the presentations we shared information
about human rights violations in Europe and world. Hearing about different problems from several
countries, as well as different approaches to same problems was enlightening for all of us.
In the end of the session we focused on the Refugee Rights, as it is one of the major topics of
human rights violations in Europe, as well as in the world. We discussed refugee’s main issues as
basic needs, education and access to healthcare.!31
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL ETHICS AND HUMAN
RIGHTS PILLAR
Session Two: Human Rights and Medical Ethics in Conflict
Zones
Keywords: Human rights violations in disaster zones,
conflict management, right to health
Description: For our second pillar session, we started with an
introduction where the participants were asked to write the
things that make them happy, their dreams and all the things they
love and live for. This positive climate was quickly overthrown when they entered the shoes of a
refugee whose all dreams and loves are suddenly lost due to a conflict situation that was beyond
their power. After this exercise, we watched a short video showing the struggles of people who have
to flee from conflict zones. Later on we read several scenarios to the participants, gave them options
to choose what they would do in such crisis situations and had a discussion on the difficult decisions
we had to make in this activity. Then we presented another video, showing a true story of a refugee
who had to take tough decisions to flee from a conflict zone.
There followed a video about the refugee and a discussion on it, and some conditions such as
immigrant, refugee, displaced and environmental migration were clarified. Finally, participants were
divided into groups and sought out what medical students can do for the problem.!32
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL ETHICS AND HUMAN
RIGHTS
Session Three: Medical Ethics and Human Rights
in Medical Curricula
Keywords: Human rights and medical ethics,
medical curriculum, current situation, expectations,
ideas, policy statement
Description: As the Medical Ethics and Human Rights
pillar, we believe the involvement of medical ethics and
human rights topic in medical curricula is crucial. Having this
thought in mind we planned a joint session with Medical Education pillar for our last pillar
session. In this session we discussed about the importance of having these topics in our
curricula, learned the current situation throughout European medical faculties and collected
input from all our participants to improve our advocacy strategies on future policy paper on
this issue.
We have started our session with another ice-breaker /energizer to . Then we started our
session by asking the definition of human rights and the ABCDE of medical ethics. After
explaining the basics of HR&ME, we read out several yes/no statements that are ethically
challenging for medical practitioners and asked our participants to decide and take their
sides in opposite sides of the room with their answers. After each statement we asked the
participants why they said yes/no and had a discussion on the topics altogether.
Last but not least, we divided our participants into 4 groups to discuss and create a
presentation on 4 topics: “the importance of ME&HR implementation in the medical
curricula, the content of the ideal curricula we would want to have in our faculties, the
methods for teaching ME&HR in medical curricula and the challenges of standardization of
ME&HR courses all over Europe.” Later on each group had presented their work and we had
a joint discussion where all participants shared their ideas on each topic.!33
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL EDUCATION PILLAR
Session One: Medical Education 101
Keywords: Medical Education, teaching methods,
learning styles
Description:
In the first session of the Pillar we briefly
clarified the role of the Medical Education Pillar in
EMSA and highlighted the need for medical students
and doctors to learn about Medical Education and
search for new learning and teaching approaches.
At first, we got familiar with the structure of the Pillar, the team and the External partners
especially focusing on AMEE and the opportunities that this association offers to medical
students.
After an energizer we moved on to finding out about the various Teaching methods that
exist. The participants had the chance to get familiar with the SPICES model through a
presentation and later on they were introduced to Outcome based, Problem based education
and Independent, integrated learning. This part of the session ended with the forming of 4
Small Working groups in which the participants brainstormed on the way to better
implement independent learning, the positive parts of integrated learning, negatives of PBL
and finally the outcomes of OBL.
In the last part of the session a presentation on Kolb’s learning Styles model took place and
an introduction to the four learning styles that exist according to that Theory. Afterwards we
disseminated a printed questionnaire so that each participant will get to find out his/her
preferred learning style. An open discussion followed about the importance of having in mind
this theory especially when designing an informative course and that such knowledge is
essential for teachers and instructors.PILLARS CORNER !34
MEDICAL EDUCATION PILLAR
Session Two: Medical Education: written one way but taught in
many
Keywords: Education Systems, Medical degree, Bologna
declaration
Description:
As medical students we are the direct receivers of the educational
process. however, we rarely realise our doubled role as powerful
stakeholders into the educational procedures. For us to be able to
intervene into the educational mechanisms of our faculties we should at first
be aware of the way they are structured and take a leading role into faculty decision making. Having that
in mind the second session was provided as a platform for medical education enthusiasts to interact and
learn more about medical education systems in other countries.
At first we reviewed the main routes of Medical Education that apply in European Schools and discuss the
advantages and disadvantages of them. The participants were are asked to note down on paper sheets
their Faculty name, FMO and Country and then to sketch all the educational steps that one needs to follow
after graduation from secondary school till entering Residency after finishing medical school. Then they
tried to search around the room for participants that had the exact same design and stayed together
resulting into the formation of smaller groups. A discussion followed on the differences, pros and cons of
each route and the terms Graduate Medical Education (GME) and non-GME were clarified.
Afterwards we learned about the the Bologna process through a presentation and understood the need of
such declaration as well as the pros and cons of its implementation. The participants were informed about
the origins of the well-known ECTS collection and the Erasmus placements that enhanced the mobility of
medical students in Europe. Moreover we discussed about the difficulties faced by the Faculties during the
implementation of the Bologna process and its follow up. At the end four SWGs and the Pillar team gained
input from the participants on what EMSA can do to further promote the implementation and advocate for
Quality Assurance.
The session came to an end with a Power Walk during which the participants witnessed the many
differences that exist in Medical Education among Europe.!35
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL EDUCATION PILLAR
Keywords: medical curriculum, current situation,
expectations, ideas, policy statement
Description:
In the last session the Medical Education Pillar joined
with the Medical the Medical Ethics and Human Rights
Pillar, to discuss about the involvement of medical ethics
and human rights in medical curricula. In this session we
discussed about the importance of having these topics in our
curricula, learned the current situation throughout European
medical faculties and collected input from all our participants to
improve our advocacy strategies on future policy paper on this issue.
We have started our session with another ice-breaker. Then we continued the session by asking the
definition of human rights and the ABCDE of medical ethics. After explaining the basics of HR&ME,
we read out several yes/no statements that are ethically challenging for medical practitioners and
asked our participants to decide and take their sides in opposite sides of the room with their
answers. After each statement we asked the participants why they said yes/no and had a discussion
on the topics altogether.
Last but not least, we divided our participants into 4 groups to discuss and create a presentation on
4 topics: “the importance of ME&HR implementation in the medical curricula, the content of the
ideal curricula we would want to have in our faculties, the methods for teaching ME&HR in medical
curricula and the challenges of standardization of ME&HR courses all over Europe.” Later on each
group had presented their work and we had a joint discussion where all participants shared their
ideas on each topic.!36
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL EDUCATION PILLAR
Keywords: medical curriculum, current situation,
expectations, ideas, policy statement
Description:
In the last session the Medical Education Pillar joined
with the Medical the Medical Ethics and Human Rights
Pillar, to discuss about the involvement of medical
ethics and human rights in medical curricula. In this
session we discussed about the importance of having these
topics in our curricula, learned the current situation
throughout European medical faculties and collected input from all
our participants to improve our advocacy strategies on future policy paper on this issue.
We have started our session with another ice-breaker. Then we continued the session by asking
the definition of human rights and the ABCDE of medical ethics. After explaining the basics of
HR&ME, we read out several yes/no statements that are ethically challenging for medical
practitioners and asked our participants to decide and take their sides in opposite sides of the
room with their answers. After each statement we asked the participants why they said yes/no
and had a discussion on the topics altogether.
Last but not least, we divided our participants into 4 groups to discuss and create a presentation
on 4 topics: “the importance of ME&HR implementation in the medical curricula, the content of
the ideal curricula we would want to have in our faculties, the methods for teaching ME&HR in
medical curricula and the challenges of standardization of ME&HR courses all over Europe.” Later
on each group had presented their work and we had a joint discussion where all participants
shared their ideas on each topic.!37
PILLARS CORNER
MEDICAL SCIENCE PILLAR
Session One: Antimicrobial resistance a slowly
emerging disaster
Keywords: hand hygiene, superbugs, epidemics
Description:
We started the session by introducing our pillar
and presenting what we do for the attendees of
the session. After that, we had an ice-breaking
game, to get to know each other better. Then we
played a game to show the importance of handwashing in
spreading multiresistant bacteria.The game was followed by a presentation about
the importance of AMR and all the medical and non-medical aspects of the current
situation. We wanted to put an emphasis on the connection between AMR and
Disaster Medicine so we had a presentation on how the current situation will be a
slowly emerging disaster if we do not prevent it. After that, we had a role play and
modeled the spreading of AMR in a hospital environment. Following that, we
described the most important guidelines on proper handwashing. During the last
situation game, we asked our participants after dividing them into groups, to come
up with a solution for the situation of AMR as different stakeholders (NGOs,
hospitals, governments, etc.)PILLARS CORNER !38
MEDICAL SCIENCE PILLAR
Session Two: Famine and food crisis
Keywords: famine, food crisis, humanitarian aid
Description:
This session started with a presentation about
famine and food crisis. We explained different
definitions of famine and showed the 2017 and
2018 humanitarian situation in the world. In 2018
the biggest humanitarian crisis is expected since World
War II. To make the attendees more involved, after dividing
them into groups, they had to work on the different causes of famine. After that, they
presented how a natural disaster, conflicts and wars or the political instability of a
country can escalate into the humanitarian crisis of famine. During the presentations,
we discussed the different aspects and causes of famine.
In the second part of the session, the attendees worked in the same groups. Each group
had a country ( Nigeria, Somalia, Yemen, DR Congo, South Sudan) with a video and a
factsheet about the current humanitarian situation. After interpreting the information
about their countries, they had to come up with country-specific solutions for famine.
During the presentations, we discussed each situation and solution and some
participants even presented their related insights and personal experiences.PILLARS CORNER !39
MEDICAL SCIENCE PILLAR
Session Three: Online awareness campaigns
session
Keywords: awareness campaign, members’
involvement, communication skills
Description of what happened:
This session was delivered by the Public Health
pillar and Medical Science pillar teams. The
participants had the chance to know more about the
Online Awareness Campaigns that were organized by these
two pillar teams during this term such as World Diabetes Day, AMR Awareness Week,
World Aids Day, Dry January Campaign-No Alcohol Challenge and World Cancer Day.
A timetable on how the organization of an online campaign goes was presented and
some tips and tricks from our experience were shared. Later we discussed about the
impact of the social media in revolutionizing the way the campaigns are organized
nowadays and the magnitude of the information we can share and the number of
people we can reach. We could not help but mention also the disadvantages of the
social media use for this purpose such as lack of privacy protection and active
dissemination of myths and misinformation by self-interested propagandists.
During the second part of the session participants were divided in 5 groups were
each of the groups had a specific awareness day campaign to plan and present.
These days were: World Heart Day, Mental Health Awareness Week, Hepatitis Day, No
Tobacco Day and Blood Donor Day.40 TRAININGS’ CORNER Trainings are special non-formal education sessions that are organized by certified peer soft-skill trainers to improve participants knowledge and proficiency in various soft skills. Training sessions are carefully selected and designed to offer participants an educational and fun experience at the same time, learning while having fun. EMSA has its own Training New Trainers program (EMSA Training Center of Excellence), which teaches the essential skills to become an efficient EMSA soft-skills trainer. If you are interested, you can check the event details through this booklet and EMSA Website!
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TRAININGS’ CORNER
STRANGE OR SIMPLY
DIFFERENT?
(INTERCULTURAL
LEARNING)
Session holders: Alicja Andrasiak &
Mert Kurttekin
"Being a part of the international family
as EMSA we meet and work with a lot of
people from different countries and
different cultural backgrounds.
Encounters with new, unfamiliar cultures
can be difficult. That's why it is crucial for
us to learn about our differences and to
respect each other while finding a
common ground to work with each other
in the most effective and satisfying way.
This training will provide you with
knowledge not only about culture and cultural differences, but also on
how to make healthier cross-cultural interactions. You will also have an
opportunity to find yourself in a completely different, astonishing world
and encounter different cultures. Are you brave enough to make that
journey with us? ;D”42 TRAININGS’ CORNER E-team: A look into the future (Managing remote/virtual teams) Session holder: Goran Stevanovski "With the globalisation sweeping the nations, the need for international collaborations and the so- called “e-teams” is becoming more of a necessity rather than a desire. As a European Association, it is in the core of EMSA to use online platforms for day-to- day communication. With the limited chances of f2f meetings, it is essential to develop effective techniques on managing online teams and to gain the well needed skills for being part of an e-team. If you are someone seeking for these particular competencies or just happen to be well adept online team player with the desire to share your knowledge, this training is the place for you. Let us take a look into the future and together grasp the mastery of tomorrow."
43 TRAININGS’ CORNER Inspiring Excellency (Talent management & delegation skills) Session holder: Sophia Tolle "As a youth organization, EMSA is every year welcoming new member in both local and european level. An important aspect of incorporation of the new members in the team in a beneficial way is to be able to see the different talents that people have and also to delegate tasks to them, so that you keep them interested and motivated"
44 TRAININGS’ CORNER What others feel (Empathy) Session holders: Hazal Erdinc & Michaella Alexandrou "As future health professionals, every EMSAi should be able to approach his/her patients in a professional way, but at the same time with empathy. Everybody should be aware of the fact that working with empathy is not something we are using only when time is not pressuring us, but it is something that we should keep in mind even when we work at emergency situations"
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TRAININGS’ CORNER
I hate this guy!
(Dealing with difficult
people)
Session holder: Leu Huang
"Growing up we all get taught to love our
neighbours and treat others like we want to
be treated. But we also know, it is easier said
than done and not every neighbour is easy
to love. Interpersonal communication
helped us evolutionally to grow from
prehistoric lone warriors to neighbours in
Leu Huang social communities. But how can we as
individuals contribute to a good
neighbourhood ? And what can we do to maintain the peacefulness within our
neighbourhood? "Nam tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet.“ - Romanian
philosopher Horace (65bc - 8bc)"46 WORKSHOPS’ CORNER Workshops are a platform for EMSAi to learn and get informed about hard-skills in small groups. Each assembly, we aim to have a balance between workshops dedicated to the theme of the event and workshops which are aimed to improve general skills. In each assembly, we increase the number of workshops offered to our members. Below you can find excerpts and introduction paragraphs to the workshops held in EMSA Spring Assembly 2018 Ohrid. 10 steps in the emergency with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Workshop holder: Apostolos Veizis "Since World War II, up to one hundred million civilians have been forced to flee persecution or the violence of war to seek refuge either in neighbouring countries or in different areas of their own country. Armed conflicts have increasingly affected civilian populations, resulting in high casualty rates, widespread human rights abuses, forced migration, famine, and in some countries the total collapse of governance. The public health consequences of armed conflict and population displacement have been well documented during the past years. The major determinants of high death rates among affected populations and the major priorities for action have also been identified. The provision of adequate food, clean water, sanitation, and shelter have been demonstrated to be more effective interventions than most medical programmes. The focus of emergency health programmes has shifted to community based disease prevention, health promotion, nutritional rehabilitation, and epidemic preparedness, surveillance and control.” Public Health Equity in Refugee Situations Workshop holder: Hazal Erdinc " With the refugee crisis being one of the main priorities both for the EU, but also for EMSA, it is
47 WORKSHOPS’ CORNER Forensic identification procedure of the victims in mass disasters Workshop holder: Prof Zlatko Jakjovski "From a legal point of view, but also for social and family reasons, it is necessary to establish the identity of the victims with certainty. The disasters can be divided in three groups like natural disasters, accidental mass disasters and wars and terrorist attacks. Identification of the victims can be performed via two techniques. Not particularly reliable techniques: like: visual comparisons, specific scars, tattoos, description of clothes, ID documents, autopsy (height, sex, age, pmi, stature, cause of death). And Reliable techniques: fingerprint comparisons, dental comparisons (availability of premortem records) and forensic DNA typing. DVI multidisciplinary team must be formed for a proper identification procedure. This team must include group of experts like: expert of forensic medicine, forensic odontologists, forensic DNA expert, crime technician, fingerprint specialist, radiologist, anthropologist and family assistance center. In each identification procedure DVI team must follow Interpol protocols. On this workshop well explain whole identification procedure of the victims by analyzing several real cases of above mentioned groups of mass disasters." Department of External Affairs Workshop Workshop holders: Teuta Azizi (PRE), Vagelis Papageorgiou (PO), Sebastian Weyn Banningh (DEA Policy Assistant), Julian Liebaert (DEA Events and Administrative Assistant). "Every EMSA member has to be informed on the importance of policy making and advocacy and how EMSA represents its policies and activities to our partners, stakeholders and external relations.” Capacity Building 101 Workshop Workshop holder: Sophia Tolle "As EMSA relies upon its FMOs for its existence it is important that our FMOs have a structured approach on educating their members on the skills needed for volunteering effectively at the organization, but also at their professional lives."
48 WORKSHOPS’ CORNER Natural disasters and how to handle them Workshop holder: Anamarija Jovanovska, M.D "EuroMeds SA’18 issue is covering the theme of Disaster Medicine this year. Knowing how to act during disasters can optimize the dexterity with which medical students and young doctors approach the situation and therefore add greatly in saving human lives. This workshop will help participants to recognize and respond appropriately in emergencies such as earthquakes and fires and it will teach them how to cope with this events, so they can protect themselves and help the people around them." CPR Workshop Workshop holder: Dr. Elena Gjorchevska, Dr. Filip Naumovski This workshop will help participants to recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies and it will teach them skills needed to give immediate care to an injured or ill person and to decide whether advanced medical care is needed. The students will engage in different activities during the workshop, starting from quiz questions in the beginning, than practicing skills on manikins and watching real life videos in the end. We are promising fun time through learning something as important as saving a life! Thoracic Trauma: Workshop holders: Andreja ARSOVSKI PhD, Zoran DIMITROV M.D. Trauma to the thorax is the second most common injury found in trauma patients. It’s estimated that 10% of trauma patients have at least one rib fracture and even more (15%) may have pulmonary contusions. These injuries rarely occur in isolation, 94 % of patients with rib fractures had other injuries. Motor vehicle crash is the most frequent mechanism of these injuries. In this workshop you will learn about the types of traumas and how to approach them as a health practitioner.
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