Prof. Debbie Jaarsma from University Medical Centre in Groningen, University of Groningen, Netherlands delivered on 14th of June 2018 as a part of the IMPACCT project meeting organized in Kosice by Department of Health Psychology the lecture “How curriculum innovations may lead to better doctors and better healthcare and vice versa” and discuss this issue with academic community of Medical Faculty Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice.

This week (13.-15.6. 2018) IMPACCT project meeting was organized by our team in Kosice with the representatives from Netherlands, Italy, Ireland and Germany.

Event was aimed to provide necessary knowledge for the project members to enable them to formulate the relevant topics and content of learning units related to health literacy education of medical and nursing students in Europe. Learning units and their content was further discussed and elaborated. Next similar event will focus on finalizing first learning units out of twenty formulated now.

According to various stakeholders consulted during IMPACCT project meeting with stakeholders held in Kosice on 14th of June, Health Literacy education is highly needed in medical curricula. Valuable information was provided for further development of the learning units.

Diversity in the content of curricula was recognized as a relevant challenge to take into consideration for the development and implementation of the learning units. Therefore, IMPACCT team proposed a supermarket model, which means that educators can select different learning units relevant for their setting or integrate components of learning units to existing education. Furthermore, diversity is a main theme throughout the different learning units as it also impacts on the patient-professional interaction.

On 30th of May our colleagues, Zuzana Dankulincova and Daniela Filakovska from Care4Youth project, have met with representatives from two National projects run by The Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic.

Together they discussed potential future cooperation on National Project – Support for protection of children from violence and National Project – Improve victims’ access to services and establish contact points for victims.

Our colleague, prof. Andrea Madarasova Geckova, was invited to present findings of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children survey on the 46th Congres of Hepatology in Donovaly, May 17-19, 2018. Together with assoc. prof. Tibor Baska they presented trends in alcohol consumptions and association of alcohol consumption within social context. More information could be found here.

On the 11th of May, 2018 prof. Madarasová Gecková delivered a lecture for health care providers on using database of HIV+ patiens experiences in clinical practice at workshops of Slovak Society of Infectologists „HIV-minulosť, súčasnosť, budúcnosť II, Sielnica“ on 11.-12. 5. 2018.

Training of HBSC team for HBSC Slovakia 2017/2018 survey had been organized in Košice, Ružomberok, Bratislava and Banska Bystrica between 20th and 23rd of March.

Three coordination centres are ready to start data collection including anthropometric parameters and fitness measure starting tomorrow 26th of March 2018!