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Transcript of Lisbon'13 EMSA GA Mini booklet
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Executive Board
President
Borislav Manev
Macedonia
Secretary General
Süleyman Yıldız
Turkey
Vice-President on Internal
Affairs
Goknur Topçu
Turkey
Vice-President on External
Affairs
Sofia Ribeiro
Portugal
Treasurer
Domagoj N. Gajski
Croatia
Department of Internal
Affairs
European Integration
Director
Ana Chekurishvili
Georgia
Medical Education Director
Kristina Filipova
Bulgaria
Medical Ethics and Culture
Director
Utkucan Acar
Turkey
Medical Science Director
Jorune Suipyte
Lithuania
Public Health Director
Rok Hržič
Slovenia
Department for External
Affairs
European Institutions -
Liaison Officer
Ivana Gjorgjevska
Macedonia
EMSA Permanent Officerat
the Standing Committee of
European Doctors
Olga Rosktowska
Poland
Public Relations Officer
Demijan Hadzi - Angelkovski
Macedonia
General Officers
Human Resources Officer
Orkun Kopaç
Turkey
Fund Raising Officer
Sven Pal
Croatia
Policy Making Officer
Jacob Hildebrand
Germany
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Welcome! As the Organizing Committee of this EMSA GA, we sincerely hope that you’re going to love
Lisbon during the GA as much as we love it! This year the OC is made of a group of 11 medical students
whose mission is to help you having the best time while you’re staying in this beautiful city, making sure
you’ll always get to the places of the meeting sessions, helping you with any questions you might have
and, of course, planning an awesome Social Programme, because we don’t want to see you burnout with
all work and no fun. As you might know, we’ve been preparing these 5 days for a long time. Year by year,
one of the goals of the GA-OC is to foster and promote student mobility in order to debate important
questions together, regarding important topics such as our education and the public health. As you’re
reading this booklet, we’ll be right behind you setting all the plenary and pillar sessions, getting everyone
ready for the Trainings and planning the traditional Twinning Market. There will always be some of us
helping in the coffee-breaks and organizing the amazing nights you’re going to experience. And to
guarantee you won’t miss a thing, we’ll be in the VIP Inn Berna Hotel in the morning so you don’t fall
asleep in such important days! Are you ready to experience the EMSA General Assembly in a city where
you can enjoy the beautiful sunlight and the charming landscapes? We’re really looking forward to meet
your expectations for this Lisbon GA!
All numbers must have +351
(Portugal Calling Code)
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Dear EMSAi,
Another great EMSA assembly is ahead of us. It is my pleasure on behalf of the EMSA European Board to
welcome you to the 23rd EMSA General Assembly. At this event we will all have opportunity to learn from
the world famous doctors, best youth trainers and enjoy in the most diverse social program.
During the plenary sessions we will make review of the work of this year’s board, we will discuss changes,
papers and elect the international board of EMSA 2013/14. The GA is the right place were all the new and
old members can learn how our association function.
For this GA the EMSA European Board and the GA Organization Committee will brought to you several
interesting speakers who will present you the latest updates in the field of Medicine. As guest speakers we
have confirmed presence from António Vaz Carneiro, PhD, FACP Head of CEMBE - Centre for Evidence
Based Medicine; Stephan Dressler, MD, Dr. phil. European AIDS Treatment Group which will present to
us “What it the European AIDS Treatment Group and how can young medical students take part on the
activities”; Tamara Torroni International AIDS Society Secretariat, Ms. Torroni will give us overview of
IAS’s activities in which medical students can take part and also all the scholarship opportunities; and
Bruno Silva-Santos, PhD Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon Group
leader at IMM.
Beside this booklet in which you can read short descriptions of the pillar sessions and the GA trainings
which will take place during our stay in Lisbon, the EEB is preparing the official GA Booklet which will
contain all the AR and necessary documents for the plenary sessions.
My teammates and I will take any suggestions which you will send to us into careful consideration. If you
have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Keep following the EMSA webpage, blog and GA fan page for more news.
Sincerely yours,
Borislav Manev
EMSA President 2012/13
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The Faculty of Medicine is a part of the University of Lisbon.
It origins back to the Royal School of Surgery created in 1825 at São José’s Hospital, later renamed the
Lisbon Medical-Surgical School and, in 1911, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon.
It was initially located in a new building in Campo de Sant’Ana and, in 1956, the Faculty was transferred to
Santa Maria’s Hospital.
Its premises have recently been extended since 2004 with the Egas Moniz building, where the Institutes of
Basic Sciences and the Institute of Molecular Medicine are located, and the Faculty has established
cooperative protocols with several hospitals and health centres for undergraduate teaching.
The Mission of the Medical School has been clearly stated: “To provide doctors with solid scientific
education, promotion of self-learning and capacity for lifelong learning, with communication skills with
patients, peers and with society as a whole, qualified for working in professional multidisciplinary teams,
aware of contemporary challenges in health and ethics in medicine and life sciences, fit for useful and
creative integration in the health’s system in today’s society and capable of making an informed choice for
their professional careers.”
The Faculty of Medicine, in cooperation with the Institute of Molecular Medicine and the Santa Maria’s
Hospital, established the Lisbon Academical Medical Centre, an innovating concept joining together
teaching, research and medical practice. Its aim is to increase scientific activity and develop translational
research between the Biomedical Sciences and Clinical Medicine, technological differentiation, and the
development of Postgraduate training programs, Masters and PhDs for doctors and other health
professionals.
The Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon has its scientific roots on the pioneers of scientific
Medicine in Portugal, continues the tradition of Egas Moniz and other innovators that developed the
Portuguese School of Angiography and introduced new surgical techniques for the treatment of vascular
disorders, which represented the Golden Era of Portuguese Medicine and a source of inspiration for today.
By honouring the Past, the Faculty aims to contribute for the progress of Medical Sciences, to foster
innovation and to develop a more humane, patient-centred and scientific-based Medicine.
José Fernandes e Fernandes
Dean of FMUL
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BY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONS
1. At the Aeroporto Underground Station (Red Line), buy a Viva Viagem Card and charge it with two trips
(the cost of the card is 0,50€ and the cost of each the trip is 1,40€). You can buy it either at the
automatic ticket machines or at the client support stand. Keep the Viva Viagem Card for further use!
The Second Trip will be used for the Wednesday Social Programme.
2. Take the underground, Red Line (Direction São Sebastião).
3. Change to the Yellow Line at Saldanha.
4. Take another underground to Campo Pequeno (Direction Odivelas).
We will be waiting for you in the Airport if you arrive on the 4th of September (Wednesday) between 10:00
a.m. and 4:00 p.m. to help you if you need!
Metro is open from 06:30 a.m. until 01:00 a.m.
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5. The Hotel is in Avenida António Serpa, number 13 (marked with an A in the map), a small walk from
the Campo Pequeno station.
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BY FOOT
1. Turn to your left when you leave VIP Inn Berna;
2. At the end of the street, turn right to Avenida 5 de Outubro;
3. After crossing the Train line, which will be above you, turn left to Avenida Álvaro Pais;
4. When arriving to the crossing, continue straight ahead to Avenida Professor Gama Pinto;
5. Go through the second gate (marked with a B on the maps) on your left and you are in Santa Maria’s
Hospital!
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The International Foods and Drinks Party is a great opportunity for all the participants of the GA to get
together and also possibly make new friends, while getting to know different cultures.
For this, you should bring typical foods and drinks from your own countries so that the variety of
food is great and you will probably taste a delicious a new dish you have never seen or heard
about before.
If you want, you can also bring some typical songs or costumes/outfits from you own countries, so that
everyone has the chance to get to know them.
Let’s make this event the most International experience you’ll ever have in your life!
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PUBLIC HEALTH
Session I: Global health and the EMSA PH pillar
This session will introduce you to the main concepts in the emerging field of Global health (as is
introduced by the Copenhagen School of Global Health at the University of Copenhagen). You will have
an opportunity to engage in lively discussions on topics such as the social determinants of health, sexual
and reproductive health, non-communicable diseases and developmental aid, while getting our minds
around the main players in the field and the challenges facing us in the future. Then we will turn our
attention to the new and existing projects in the EMSA PH pillar that can be inspired by the insight we gain
during the discussion.
Session II: Alcohol: policy and advocacy feat. Sofia Ribeiro
Responsible for nearly 200,000 deaths annually, the third biggest cause of early death and illness and the
cause for in 1 out of 4 deaths among young men, alcohol is one of the biggest killers after tobacco and
high blood pressure. But Europe is still the leading world region in alcohol consumption, alcohol is still very
legal and binge drinking is still the favourite way of spending a weekend for millions of students and young
people. This workshop will give you all the tools you will need to fight for sober communities all over
Europe. We will take you through what takes to plan an effective health advocacy campaign, using a
method that you can use and reuse again and again on any topic that interests you, inside or out of
medicine.
Session III: Against discrimination – care for HIV+ persons
Dr. Stephan Dressler, European AIDS Treatment Group (www.eatg.org)
Within the 30 years since AIDS has first been described, there were major developments in understanding
this new syndrome: in 1984, the HIV virus was identified as the causative agent of AIDS. Epidemiology
and transmission routes were monitored; public health systems all over the world developed strategies of
coping with this new transmissible disease. In the mid-1990s, highly active combination therapies became
available, and today antiretroviral therapy is one of the cornerstones of fighting the HIV epidemic.
However, even in the age of antiretroviral therapy, providing care for persons living with HIV remains a
particular challenge as stigma and discrimination against persons with HIV are still a commonly observed
fact. This interactive workshop will address issues of stigma and discrimination in the setting of (medical)
care and focus on the role that doctors and medical staff can play in avoiding and overcoming
discriminatory attitudes.
Biography
Dr. phil. Dr. med. Stephan Dressler studied medicine and philosophy at Freie Universitaet Berlin. He has
worked for the National AIDS Centre at the Federal Health Office, Germany. In 1992 he became a
founding member of the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG). His current work focuses on patient
education seminars (HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis) in Central and Eastern Europe. He also serves as
abstract reviewer for International AIDS Society (IAS) and World AIDS conferences, and is a member of
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the European Community Advisory Board (ECAB). His publications include various dictionaries and
encyclopedias, articles on research ethics and philosophy with children.
MEDICAL EDUCATION PILLAR
Session I: Getting familiar with ME pillar with Madalena Patrício (AMEE)
If you are still wondering for what is the pillar responsible, this session is just for you. We will let you know
about the active Medical Education Projects, Summer Schools, Educational system throughout Europe,
student’s mobility and Bologna Process. You will find out how you and your FMO can contribute to EMSA
work on this field, how you can take part in the AMEE conference and many other events. Furthermore,
you will have an insight on the Bologna Process, given by Madalena Patrício, from AMEE.
Session II: Sharing experiences
We continue with the best projects from last year. In this session we invite the most experienced people in
making Medical Education Projects to present their work, ideas and share good practices. We will discuss
together the new perspectives, set up priorities and try to enrich future EMSA activities. Attend this
session, take the best from the best and bring it home!
Session III: Making innovative ideas happen
This is the time and place where the new projects will be launched. If you have some local project that has
never been presented on a GA or NCM, please don’t keep it for yourself, we are curious to know more
about it. You can bring all your enthusiasm, energy and passion, if possible some leaflets, posters and
promotional materials too :) A short presentation or just some pictures would fit perfectly.
Don’t miss any of the pillar sessions, we promise a diversity of topics, discussions, games, brainstorming
and a priceless experience.
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
Facilitator: Ana Chekurishvili, European Integration Director
Travel is only thing you buy and that makes you richer! Do you agree with this quote? … Join us and let’s
travel all around Europe, interact with people from other countries and experience different cultures and
habits.
Do you want to become familiar with amazing Projects? Don’t waste your time and join our European
Integration Pillar sessions!
Session I
EMSA- Exchange Program – Are you an enthusiastic member willing to play an active role in creating new
EMSA project? Let’s get united and make it finally happen!!! Do you want to improve general health not
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only in your country, but all over the Europe? Think about, your participation, opinion is VERY important
for us. All you have to do is …you know what to do : )
Session II
You probably have heard about the best EMSA project - Twinning Project. If not there will be presentation
for you with a bunch of new Ideas. What about Euro-talk? One of the most integrative and interesting
project, but less organized...The reason?... Let’s Promote it and organize with TP. Do you know why is
our, dictionary’’ so popular? If the answer is yes you won’t miss it if not? Are you curious? This Session will
be unforgettable!
Session III
The main goal for all of us is to become a professional Doctor! Let’s get insight which skills should we
have? Humanity? What is the first step we should begin with? EMSA has unique projects Best Buddy and
Different Christmas …together we can begin with this; let’s prescribe first medicine for other people –
Smile!
I leave the choice up to you …
MEDICAL SCIENCE PILLAR
Session I (September 5th; 18.00 – 20.00): Science means… PRACTISE?
On the first Medical Science Pillar session day you will try yourself in practice. The main coordinator of the
workshop Erika Birgiolaitė has participated in the Summer Surgery Camp, organized by Romanian
Students Society of Surgery. She is the sole finder of such surgical skills workshops in Lithuanian
University of Health Sciences and is more than glad to share her expertise with you! Prepare your hands
well! We will make sure your first surgical knots won’t be too loose!
Session II (September 6th; 9.00-11.00): Science means… RESEARCH? with Nick Shockey, Right to
Research Coalition
Today will be all about the research. First of all, you will be introduced to a brand new idea from Lithuanian
medical student Džiugas Meškelevičius who believes in creating an EMSA exchange network between
laboratories all around the Europe! After the presentation you will attend a workshop given by Nick
Shockey, the Director of the Right to Research Coalition. Have you ever heard about this international
alliance? It connects 31 graduate and undergraduate student organizations, representing nearly 7 million
students! Stay tuned and read the description below!
Open Access 101: The Future of Scientific & Medical Publishing and Why It Matters to Medicine
How many times have you come across a medical article you couldn’t get access to when researching a
patient’s condition? If you’re like most, it’s probably something that happens all too often. Expensive price
barriers to reading the latest medical research harms patient care, impedes an evidence-based medical
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education, and slows the discovery of new treatments and diagnostics. Fortunately, there is a solution.
Open Access is the idea that all research articles should be openly available online for all to read free of
charge. Open Access has the ability to revolutionize medical research, provide doctors with all of the latest
information when they need it, and empower patients to take an active role in their care. Leading
biomedical research funders like the Welcome Trust and US National Institutes of Health already require
results of research they fund to be made freely available online, but much remains to be done at the
institutional, national, and international levels to ensure everyone has full access to the medical literature.
This workshop will describe the basics of what Open Access is, how it can be achieved, and the significant
impact it can have in improving medical care.
Session III (September 7th; 9.00-11.00): Science… so how do I need to start?
Today you must get inspired! Interested in science and research, but need guidance on how to build your
career? Want to start doing research while being a medical student and don’t know where to start from?
Then join the session, where a researcher PhD Bruno Silva - Santos will enlighten you on this issue and
provide useful advice! The last part of our 3-days-long sessions – EMSA Medical Science upcoming
projects, events and YOUR THOUGHTS! Please bring all your ideas and suggestions – everyone is
welcome!
MEDICAL ETHICS AND CULTURE
Session 1: Upcoming Event: European Week of Ethics
The long-waited moment has come: A very enthusiastic FMO took the lead and they are making this
project come true. In this session, we will discuss about overall event and organization, as there are lots of
things to be decided upon, such as: What type of sessions should there be, topic suggestions for
discussions, duration of sessions, outcomes and of course social program :) Anyone interested in this
amazing event should come and join to this session.
PS: For those who doesn’t know EWE project; EWE is international event, aiming to raise awareness of
ethical problems, potential solutions and opinions of the specialists in that specific field.
Session 2: New aspect in the pillar: Human Rights
This session will be a sequel to the Human Rights session held in NCM 2013 in Georgia. But don’t worry,
if you couldn’t attend that session: We will cover that with having a little talk about human rights, why does
it concern us as future doctors, and what has been done this year in human rights projects. Human Rights
aspect is new to E&C pillar, and the projects need attention. In this session, we will brainstorm about the
projects (namely Human Rights Webinars, Over the Rainbow and International Women’s Day Activities),
hopefully come up with creative ideas to improve them, or perhaps creating a new project related to
Human Rights.
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Session 3: The E&C Pillar - Past, Present & Future
In this session we will talk about what has been done in E&C pillar in the previous years, how projects
evolved and how the pillar grew. After a brief update about what has been done this year, we will discuss
about what was planned but couldn’t achieved too. Then it will be the time for talking about the “future” of
the pillar: What do you want to see in E&C? Do you want to invent a project, or improve/evolve an existing
project? This session will be the perfect session for both those who want to learn about the pillar and
make a contribution to the pillar.
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Fundraising Like a Boss
Diogo Medina
In the day and age of the overbearing tyranny of the ominous 'C' word, fundraising comes across as a
daunting and most strenuous of tasks within a project. Resources are thinning by the day, and,
conversely, the need and purposefulness of the activities you organize have never been greater. This is
exactly why you need to gather your thoughts and be sure your managerial and fundraising skills are on
point. This will be a very dynamic and practical training session, based on some theory, and on a whole lot
of practice. "Crisis? What crisis?". At the end you will leave feeling invigorated, ready to take on the world
with a cunning smile and bring your projects to life— you have a strategy!
Hakuna Matata: Emotional Intelligence
Damla Yağmur
What a wonderful phrase! Human beings are blessed and cursed by free will and emotions. Yes,
understanding the world around us is through our five senses, but how about our emotions, choices, and
actions? What is their level of involvement in defining us, in affecting our understanding? What helps us
understand emotion, in ourselves and in others? In this training we will experience and discuss matters
regarding emotional intelligence. Our eyes, nose, skin, taste buds, and ears will be involved in the
process, and we welcome everyone who is eager for a chance of becoming a mirror of themselves and
their group!
Learn together, handle as one! Project Management Skills
Göknur Topçu
Can you see what is happening around you? Are you aware of how important is it to be able to manage
even the small things that are evolving in your life? Do you know that project management is more than
what the title claims? If you want to be able to lead to any kind of a project which can vary from a twinning
project to a transport of a transplant, join our training to upgrade your skills. Learn how to be able to
handle a group and engage your theories into practice. We are waiting for you to spread your knowledge
while you learn from your colleagues around an entire continent!
How to charge our batteries: Motivation
Sezgi Güllü Yıldırım
Durability of the batteries change; it is about how long you used the power, for which reason you used for
and the quality of them. It is not important if your batteries die often. The question is how to change the
batteries into rechargeable ones. This training will be your laboratory! Be ready to set the lab experiment
and be ready to have the biggest experiment of your life. The aim of this lab work is to make your batteries
rechargeable, and please please please be careful to not have lab accidents/ explosions. The training is
not only about your own batteries, but it is also about your teammates’ batteries as well. We will follow
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some methods/examples to learn how to motivate ourselves and our teams, friends and the people
surrounding us.
Cultural Differences
Olga Rostkowska, Onur Küçükerdoğan
Cultures have different values, different believes, include different lifestyles. Why is it important for us to
understand those differences? What does it add to our development, as young people and European
citizens? What can we learn from it? It's important to understand cultural differences to alleviate the fear of
unknown. Being familiar with something facilitates acceptance. What it could add to us as people would be
the end of ignorance and prejudice. In a working environment, it helps to bring up the best in your team
and truly enjoy the benefits of the multicultural surrounding.
EMSA needs leaders!
Safa Canşi
Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Sir Alex Ferguson. Which common word
describes those dissimilar types of people who had quite different occupations, aims and who lived in
different situations, epochs, facilities? What made them unique among others? What collects them under
the same umbrella? Let’s go on a trip into the “Leaders’ world”.
Leadership: Crucial point for student associations as well as all communities. During this training we will
discover the difference between “leadership” and “management” concepts and have some tricks from
global successful leaders to be a “good leader”. Think global act local! In the end; you will have had the
opportunity to mix your gains with student organization perspective: Say hello to EMSA’s new leaders.
Rockstar Communication Skills
Diogo Medina
Odds are you fancy yourself a pretty decent communicator. Recently, though, facing increasingly more
diverse settings has started making you queasier — you're unsure if how you talk to patients is effective;
you have doubts on the proper stance for an interview; you've even started wondering whether people are
truly listening to you. The good news is you can overcome fear and perform exceptionally well! Whether
you're a rookie or an expert at the gift of the gab, this training session is set to be a game changer. You'll
get to analyze what you've been doing wrong and right, know how to address different occasions
accordingly, be taught the holy commandments on how to escape the infamous "death by powerpoint",
and learn to better communicate within teams.
United Colours of a Team: Team Building Skills
Damla Yağmur, Sezgi Yıldırım
The instruments in an orchestra are the most meaningful while they create their harmonious sounds.
Team building stands as the key stone of any individual work done by multiple people. Have you ever felt
like a piece that completed harmony? Tasted the beauty of becoming one with many, in a classroom, a
stadium, a park, or a surgery room? Even more, have you ever had the desire for these things? This
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training is a medium in which we will see the chemistry, hear the accord, and feel the rhythm of teaming
up, and all colours are welcome.
"Life is a crisis - so what!" - Problem solving skills
Bogdan Kovachev, Melike Pelin Özdoğru
Problems should not be viewed as obstacles to avoid. Instead learn how you can overcome every problem
with ease, and change the phrase “obstacle” with “opportunity”, because we see problems as
opportunities for personal growth. At this session you will be expected to challenge yourself and learn how
to think like a master problem solver. With the skills acquired, you will start to see the unsolvable as a
challenge to conquer, and you will start using the problem solving process to your everyday life.
How to have a 48h day: Time management
Sofia Ribeiro
Medical school, your local organization, going out, part-time job, all at the same time…is that familiar to
you? Do you wake up every day and wish that your day had 48 hours instead of the usual 24? Do you find
it hard to handle everything, to prioritize your obligations and to say “no” to people? Having time for
yourself has become a luxury lately? Then join us for a journey of personal development in time
management, where you will learn how to make the most of your days, weeks and months. We guarantee
no miracles, but after this workshop your life will be different.
Discover the power of creativity
Emine Şenkal, Ivana Kolevska
Everybody wants to be creative. Creativity makes life more fun, more interesting and more full of
achievement, but too many people believe that creativity is something you are born with and cannot be
learned. But what if we tell you that that's not true? What if we tell you that everyone can be creative, even
you? Come on this trip to the wonderland of creativity with us and we will show you that the ideas which
sound crazy today, tomorrow can bring reasonable solutions to what seemed unsolvable. In this training
you’re not only allowed – but you MUST step back and look at things from a different angle. Get out of the
box and think creatively!
The only thing which does not change: “Change” itself!
Safa Canşi
Are you bored of regular trainings? Are you looking for an interesting subject and a new perspective to
have in Lisbon? Do you also think that we should keep pace with change and/or even lead the change as
future European doctors? Then you came right! During this training; you will have the chance to look
towards concept “change” in a glance and to discover some ways to manage the change from a problem
to an opportunity.
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“Rollerskating in Antarctica” - Presentation Skills
Orkun Kopaç, Melike Pelin Özdoğru
It is not something unusual if you are worrying about delivering a presentation in front of audience.
Although your presentation is about a subject you know well and you worked on it days and nights, when it
comes to present it on stage you might feel like you are talking about “Rollerskating in Antarctica”. There
are so many tools to improve the attractiveness of your presentation which are as important as your body
language, changing tone and pitch of your voice and your smile. When you create your amazing
presentation and shine on the stage with confidence, even though you deliver information about
“Rollerskating in Antarctica” all professors' applause will come for you!
Wants job, gets job! The road to excellent interviews
Sofia Ribeiro
With the end of Medical School approaching, you might think of applying to a job...and there are the
positions at our local organization, international posts opening, fellowships, maybe a Masters or a PhD...
And you start drafting your Motivation Letter, but you don’t know how to sell yourself. And then here it
comes the CV, it has been months since you’ve updated it. But well, if you manage all of this and the
interview day comes...PANIC!! The good news: after this training, no more panic - you will become a
master in job applications.
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Meeting dedicated to Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) open group of EMSA
Olga Rostkowska
Ageing population is a fact. It affects every social sector, health-care very much included. Regardless of
your medical specialty, you will see more and more silver hair figures crossing the corridors of the medical
institutions you’ll get bond to. How to embrace the change called ‘the white tsunami’ and what has the
world been going so far to respond to this demographic trend? We warmly invite you to the first meeting of
the EMSA Active and Healthy Ageing (AHA) Working Group which has been established this year. We will
discuss what EMSA has done so far in this topic. We will brainstorm what can be delivered by EMSA when
thinking about the Elderly members of our societies. The participants will decide themselves which healthy
behaviours would suit them best when developing together individual strategies for a life-style meant to
extend not only the years but also time in good condition. If you wish to be part of the EMSA WG and
broaden your knowledge, stay up-dated and take part in the international activities on AHA, this session is
a place where you should pop-by. HOWEVER, you will neither be obliged to enroll for the tasks of the
group nor will you have to take part later on :) Come if you’re interested in the topic!
Advocacy Workshop - Tearing Down the Pay Wall: How Medical Students Can Play a Critical Role in Unlocking the World’s Research (And Already Have)
Nick Shockey, Right to Research Coalition
Students across the world are already playing a significant role in unlocking the world’s research —
medical and otherwise — for all to read and build upon. Medical students have already worked
successfully with groups ranging from the British Medical Association to the Obama Administration to the
University of Nairobi to open up access to the medical literature.
This workshop will build on the earlier Open Access 101 session to describe how you can get involved at
the university, national, and international levels to make medical articles available to all and how medical
students have already been successful in doing so.
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José Fernandes e Fernandes, MD, PhD
Faculty Dean
Opening Session on the 5th of September
Welcome Message
António Vaz Carneiro, MD, PhD, FACP
Head of CEMBE - Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (www.cembe.org/avc/en)
Opening Session on the 5th of September
Evidence Based Medicine
Leonor Parreira
Secretary of State of Science
Opening Session on the 5th of September
Madalena Patrício, MA, PhD
AMEE (An Association for Medical Education in Europe)
Workshop during the Medical Education session
Stephan Dressler, MD, Dr. phil.
European AIDS Treatment Group (www.eatg.org)
Plenary presentation on the 6th September
What it the European AIDS Treatment Group and how can young medical students take part on the
activities.
Session “Against discrimination – care for HIV+ persons” during the Public Health Pillar on the 7th
September”
Tamara Torri
International AIDS Society Secretariat (www.iasociety.org)
Plenary presentation on the 6th September
The International AIDS Society is the world’s leading independent association of HIV professionals.
Tamara Torroni, the Scholarship Programmes Officer, will give an overview of IAS’s activities in which
medical students can take part and also all the scholarship opportunities.
Nick Shockey
Right to Research Coalition (www.righttoresearch.org)
Plenary Presentation on the 6th September, Educational workshop during the Medical Science
Pillar and Advocacy Workshop
Bruno Silva-Santos, PhD
Assistant Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon
Group leader at IMM
Guest for the Medical Science Pillar on the 6th September
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On 7th September, parallel with the GA Elections, the National Coordinators of EMSA (EMSA-NCs) will
meet during the NC-session.
Since the EMSA General Assembly in Athens the position of National Coordinator (NC) is obligatory.
Having this position mandatory makes it easier for the EEB to communicate with the FMOs, but as with
everything new, there is room for improvement. During this session for NC we will try to find the best way
to make fruitful use out of this new national ´layer´.
We invite all NCs and interested Local Coordinators (LCs) from countries without an NC to this session!
Twinning Project Market is an inter-European fair during which representatives of all FMOs can present
their countries, cities and faculties in order to attract possible partners for organising a Twinning Project. At
the TP market participants not only offer a Twinning Project opportunity to other FMOs but also sometimes
offer the rest of the participants’ samples of their culture, traditional cuisine, customs and their country’s
noteworthy monuments and beauties.
Don’t miss the chance to find your twins at the EMSA GA!
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As promised on our Lisbon’13 EMSA GA video, we will provide you with Wireless Internet connection at
the Venue!
You just have to connect to: guest-ul (Wireless Net Name)
Then, open your browser and log in with the following:
Username: [email protected]
Password: Faculdade2013
At the moment of the Check-In, you will receive tickets that will provide you meals. Please do not lose
any of these tickets, because this is the only free way to have access to your meals.
Address: Avenida António Serpa, Number 13, 1069-199, Lisbon
Telephone: +351 217 814 300
Edifício Egas Moniz – Hospital de Santa Maria
Avenida Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-028, Lisbon
Telephone: +351 217 818 890
How to get there from other places in Lisbon:
Metro: Cidade Universitária (Yellow Line) | Carris Buses: 31, 35, 738, 768
Medical Emergency: 112
Police: +351 808 20 20 35
TAXIS (Available 24/day): 218 111 100 | 218 111 111 | 218 119 000
