On 9th December our PhD student Veronika Pacutova met with Lasse Skafte Vestergaard, who is Senior Medical Officer at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Staten Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also project coordinator of EuroMOMO, which provides weekly mortality activity, aiming to detect and measure excess deaths related to seasonal influenza, pandemics and other public health threats among 29 European countries. The project is also supported by the ECDC and WHO. Unfortunately, Slovakia is still not cooperating so we hope it will change in the future as EuroMOMO will gladly welcome us.
The International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) is the world’s leading student congress in the field of (bio)medical sciences. ISCOMS is Europe’s largest biomedical student congress and attracts more participants each year. Last year we received 664 abstracts from students from 66 different countries.
This year, the 29th edition will take place from the 8th until the 10th of June 2022.
Students can visit the congress both as presenting and non-presenting participant. ISCOMS offers a scientific programme with a pre-course on mastering your research and three congress days in which student presentation sessions (plenary, oral, and poster), interactive workshops, a patient lecture and a surgical operation will take place. Furthermore, during the congress you can attend keynote lectures including Nobel prize laureate 2011, prof. Bruce Beutler MD, as well as prof. Jeffrey Friedman MD PhD, prof. Karl Diesseroth MD PhD, prof. Roel Nusse PhD and prof. Hanneke Schuitemaker PhD.
During ISCOMS, students can explore PhD opportunities at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) with our ISCOMS Research Fellowships (IRF). The IRF is a challenging two week programme, in which students may actively participate in research at one of the UMCG Research Institutes and gather a great deal of knowledge related to the topic of research. As a student, you get the chance to perform research at a leading institute, meet top researchers, and learn about the possibilities of doing a PhD-programme in the Netherlands. Many foreign students were able to start a PhD-programme in the UMCG due to the IRF. The IRF are available for presenting participants exclusively. ISCOMS 2022 will take place in Groningen at the UMCG.
The main focus of the congress will be on physical participation, but several elements will take place digitally as well. Furthermore, we will host ISCOMS 2022 in Groningen within the confines of the COVID-19 measures of the Netherlands. Thus, irrespective of the COVID-19 situation, ISCOMS 2022 will definitely take place!
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Are you interested in presenting your research at ISCOMS? Send in your abstract. The abstract submission is open from the 18th of October until the 30st of January 2022. Each student is allowed to submit up to two abstracts. Abstracts can be submitted on our website www.iscoms.com.
For more information, please visit our website, Facebook page and Instagram page. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at iscoms@umcg.nl
Our colleague Jaroslava Kopčáková attended a work meeting on 7th December 2021connected to electronic media communication and its association to leisure time, self image and well-being among adolescents with colleagues and experts within this topic from Europe and North America.
On 30th November our PhD. students Veronika Pacutova and Viktorya Karchynskaya met with Claire Gudex, who is Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, where she teaches academic writing and undertakes research in patient outcome measurement. She is also a founder member of the EuroQol Group, an international research group for the development of the generic health measure. They personally discussed medical writing of the articles, how to improve their skills.
On 30th November our PhD. students Veronika Pacutova and Viktorya Karchynskaya met with Julie Dalgaard Guldager, who is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, SDU. They discussed physical activity among Danish and Slovak adolescents and COVID-19 pandemic management. Interesting to mention is that Julie is also part of the research team which created the first virtual application of the party simulation just to prevent peer pressure regarding alcohol consumption among young people.
More information could be found on the following links:
Journal editing in Health Sciences course organised by Swiss School of Public health was focused on theoretical background and practical training in evaluating manuscripts. During online interactive lectures and self-studies participants learnt to take responsible decisions as editors and reviewers, at all stages of peer-review. Main goal of the course was preparing attendees for an appointment as associate editor.
So far, we’ve managed to visit five schools (three of those this week) in Prešov, Košice and their vicinity despite the deteriorating epidemiological situation. Due to the uncertainty caused by the bad epidemiological situation and regulations, our pilot data collection is nearing the end. If everything goes well, we should be able to visit the last school in the near future.
Chamber for Medical Law – Medius and h&h PARTNERS lawyer’s office organized a webinar „How to prevent legal sanction when doing triage during pandemic?“ and prof. Andrea Madarasová Gecková was invited to cover mental health challenes of triage.
Our colleague Jaroslava Kopčáková attended a work meeting within project Health and health-related behavior of adolescents and methods of prevention of lifestyle diseases KEGA 020UKF-4/2021. On 25th November 2021 she had an opportunity to meet with colleagues from the Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Education, Constantine The Philosopher University in Nitra and from the Department of Sports Education and Humanistics, Faculty of Sports of the University of Prešov in Prešov.
What does a health care professional experience after a patient’s health is revealed? As a society, are we able to perceive the complexity of the situation in which the health care provider finds himself? How to approach it with respect and understanding?
These questions were answered and you can listen to them in the following podcast here organized by Chamber of Medical Law – Medius.
Guests: JUDr. Marika Barabas Pavlíková JUDr. Ivan Humeník, PhD MUDr. Branislav Chrenka prof. Mgr. Andrea Madarasova Geckova, PhD PhDr. Silvia Pekarcikova, MPH, MHA Moderator: Zuzana Kovačič Hanzelová
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