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GUIDEYeditepe University / Istanbul

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Dear Guests, On behalf of the Yeditepe University Faculty of M edicine, it is m y great

p leasure to welcom e you to the 22nd EM S A General Assem bly. We are living in a world where change is unavoidab le and you chose the hard

way by being a m edical student contributing to this change. Seeing you as being a part of this change and im provem ent m akes m e proud.

Beginning from its foundation, I have been the witness of EM SA-Yeditepe’s

achievem ents. Now, I’m glad to see that it has becom e a m ilestone of EM SA-Europe. I believe that EM SA-Yeditepe will organize a m agnificant General Assem bly as we have seen in the previous events. The m ajor reason for these events to be well-organized is its enthusiastic and ded icated m em bers.

The other reason for this is the fact that these events are held in Istanbul.

Istanbul is such a vibrant and fascinating city , ancient and m odern, religious and secular, Asian and European, m ystical and earthly. Therefore, I hope that during the GA you will feel the spirit of İstanbul and enjoy a beneficial program enriched with scientific workshops and sem inars.

I kindly welcom e you again and wish you to have a great GA. Prof. Dr. Ayça V itrinel Dean of Yeditepe University Faculty of Medicine

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Dear EMSA members, It is a pleasure for us to host, EMSA General Assembly 2012, in Yeditepe

University Medical Faculty. Even though, people are living longer and better than any time in history, many of us believe that external factors will affect health care in the future. A less predictable climate resulting in natural disasters, advances and conceptual changes in therapeutical approaches, drug resistance to pathogens and political changes worldwide are going to change the major concepts in health care. As future medical doctors; your interest, readiness and willingness for better solutions to these complex future tasks is important for our profession both for continuous improvement and empowerment. Developing public oriented social activities, educational and scientific projects are expectations from this meeting. I am delighted to see medical students from a wide range of geographical area; from Belgium, Bulgaria, Crotia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Libya, Macedonia, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Ukraine, The Netherlands, Turkey, Tunisia who will all bring their different colors to this event.

After a very active education year, your friends in EMSA-Yeditepe, have

spent great efforts and most of their summer for preparations of this event, to make it a general assembly to be full of joyful memoirs for all attendees. We welcome you all and hope you have a fruitful, entertaining and joyful meeting in Yeditepe.

Assos. Prof. Gülderen Yanıkkaya Dem irel Advisor of Medical Club / EMSA Yeditepe

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Dear EMSAi, Less than one weeks till we all meet again. The first EMSA GA with 6 days

full agenda dedicated for the medical students from all around Europe. We will all have opportunity to learn from the world famous doctors, best youth trainers and enjoy in the most diverse social program.

As usual at the plenary sessions we will make review of the work of this

year’s board, we will discuss changes, papers and elect the next year team. Here is the right place were all the new and old members can learn how the EMSA family 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. For the seminars we have confirmed presence from the current President of the Standing Committee of the European Doctors (CPME) Dr. Konstantin Radziwill, Dr. Ozdemir Aktan the President of Turkish Medical Doctors’ Association and Dr. Fatma Tulin Kayhan expert in the field of surgery by Da Vinci Robots.

Keep following the EMSA webpage, blog and GA fan page for more news.

S incerely yours, Borislav M anev President of EMSA Europe

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Dear EMSAi, As being EMSA-Yeditepe, we have been in and organized a number of EMSA

events. Every each of them had a special place in our hearts. However, at this very moment we experience the honour of having you as our guests fort he 22nd General Assembly of EMSA.

We are very excited for this amazing program of 6 days awaiting us. We hope

our excitement and enthusiasm will empower you during these busy days and make you contribute to change Europe.

Now, all we want from you is to let yourself go with the flow. Welcome dear friends. On behalf of the Organizig Committee,

C eren Sultan A ltay OC President

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Prevention - no alternative! Where should we start? Prevention is most important part of our work as a doctors, and it should be done from the earliest

time. By educating the children we attempt to aware consciousness of now kids, but one day responsible adults with the kids on their own. By educating children we invest in our future, and thereby in better conditions for us as a medical staff to work in and as people to live in. In my workshop I will show the examples of preventive actions, and hopefully we will also together make a example as a product of our GA.

Sponsorship from pharmaceutical companies Treasurer and FRO will together with other colleagues try to make a conclusion about raising

funds connected with pharmaceutical companies. Also other possibilities of fundraising will be discussed and analyzed. Pharmaceutical companies represent a big fund raising option, but on the other hand they represent a moral and ethical challenge. Should we accept the challenge and set the rules or just try to manage without pharmaceuticals?

Externals of EMSA Ever wondered about the partnerships that EMSA has across Europe, with both professional and

student organizations? Do you want to know more about the opportunities you have to participate in workgroups, trainings and conferences, among other interesting and challenging activities? Do you have new ideas of partnerships we could negotiate in the future? Then this is the right workgroup for you!

Policy Making Are you interested in policy making? Are you a part of the Policy Making workgroup or are you

interested in joining? Then come to this workgroup, we will go through the policy priorities for EMSA, establish a draft strategy for the workgroup and much more!

The Future of EMSA Is EMSA finally ready to purchase office in the heart of the Europe by herself? How about together

with other student organizations? Let’s all discuss what are the pros and cons for this idea. Are we ready to accomplish this step or are these ideas remain just a dream?

DESCRIPTIONS OF SMALL WORKING GROUPS

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Small Working Group on EuroMeds 2012 ... because a medical student is a humanist. During this workshop we will discuss in details the content, structure and general layout of the

EMSA official magazine, released in September 2012. If you feel like contributing toEuroMeds next year or developing your own ways of running a magazine for an association/university, this workshop would probably be quite inspiring. Moreover, we would like to select EuroMeds editorial team for the next year’s issue and set some basic plans for the articles to be written. Curious how much humanist is in you? Come to this SWG!

SWG: EMSA 2.0 Facilitator: Georgios Tsaknias Day by day we tend to use the internet in order to communicate, collaborate, promote and share

ideas or just socialize. Even in our organization in every level (local, national, European) we use more and more web applications and platforms that make our work easier and faster. During this SWG we are going to exchange tools and come in touch with some brand new tools that will help your FMOs to work smoother.

CPME activities If you want to learn something more about the structure of the Standing Committee of the

European Doctors; If you want to know who represent our rights and needs as Health Care Professionals in Europe; but also and how the members of the CPME do that, than you can learn all this information’s at the “CPME activities” Small Working Group.

AMEE The Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) is a worldwide organisation with

individual and institutional members in 90 countries on five continents. You are invited to join AMEE small working session and understand international network of AMEE and its benefits for students. Attending this session will allow you to learn more about AMEE and its projects and discussiong new changes for EMSA together. Furthermore, you will get detailed updates about MedEdWorld, AMEE Conferences, AMEE Guides and Medical Teacher magazine.

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E u ro p e a n In te g ra tio n Facilitator: Georgios Tsaknias, European Integration Director Do you like promoting interaction and mobility among European medical students and

their universities? Do you love to interact with people from other countries and experience different cultures and habits? Have you taken part or even organized one of our amazing projects like twinning project or eurotalk? Or are you just a young enthusiastic member willing to learn more for this pillar? Then don’t waste any more time and join our European Integration Pillar sessions!

At this GA we will have 3 pillar sessions that are described in brief in the following

paragraphs: 1) As you know projects have been the core of our pillar so far thus during one session

we are going to be divided into two subgroups one for our young members explaining the basics of our projects and one for the experienced ones so as to be introduced or even to develop advanced aspects of our projects.

2) A training that will help us to develop skills necessary for smooth cooperation in a

united Europe and bring us all closer. 3) European Integration in 2015! During this session we will try to take our pillar a few

steps further and to sketch a roadmap of it. There we will have the chance to evolve our projects, create new ones but also to explore “fields” of European integration that we have not reached before.

E th i c s a n d C u l tu re Day 1 Do we have the right to tell a mother ‘if you don’t sacrifice a part of your body, your baby

will die’? Where does Primum non nocere go if we hurt a healthy individual to take his tissues for transplantation? How do relations in a family change after one person decides to donate a piece of liver to another? And what happens when a possible donor rejects such a request...

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What Prometeus forgot to mention… A discussion with students over organ donation and ethical aspects of allogenic transplantology. Guests invited for the session: Prof. Dr Nermin Ersoy – Medical Ethics Lecturer Dr Ata Bozoklar – The First Organ Transplantation Coordinator in Turkey Prof. Dr Ilgın Özden – Liver Transplantation General Surgeon Day 2 Failed exam… serious accident… unexpected diagnosis… all the situations require breaking the

news to somebody who might be completely unprepared for this. How to handle such situation? By role playing and movie watching we will discuss how to stay perceptive to other people’s needs and what steps by all means to avoid in certain circumstances. In a friendly environment, we will further develop communication skills critical to our work in EMSA as well as future job as a doctor. A TRAINING ON COMMUNICATION WITH LITTLE BIT OF THEATRE.

Day 3 Safa Cansi, Medical Ethics and Culture Assistant 2011/2012, will carry out the evaluation of a

survey related to EMSA Trans Plantation project. The poll was intended to assess the sensitivity, awareness and knowledge of medical students regarding bone marrow donation. We will present the results, discuss them and think of ways some aspects could be improved. Moreover, a quick review of what has been done this year in Medical Ethics and Culture Pillar and what are we heading for in the EMSA season 2012/2013.

SWG: Facilitator: Olga Rostkowska EuroMeds 2012 – where did we succeed and where did we fail. A session on how we created the latest issue of EuroMeds. How can we improve it and what are

the plans for the next year. We’ll choose a person responsible for EuroMeds 2013 :)

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P u b l i c H e a l th Facilitator: Sofia Ribeiro, VPE Are you absolutely passionate about Public Health? Or have you recently discovered it and want to

learn more? Whether you are a beginner or expert on Public Health issues, you will learn a lot during these sessions, so all you have to do is to subscribe and attend the PH Pillar. But what could you expect? We will have a total of 3 sessions:

1) Training on peer education projects in the area of the reduction of the hazardous consumption

of alcohol (we are working on having an expert from WHO on the session) 2) What is Public Health? In which areas could EMSA be more active and make the difference?

Debate on the future perspectives of the PH pillar in EMSA and articulation with the department of external affairs

3) Training on policy making focused on Public Health Basics of policy making together with the space for input on the drafts of EMSA policy papers SWG: Externals of EMSA Facilitator: Sofia Ribeiro Want to know more about the externals of EMSA and the potential opportunities of collaboration?

Do you want to play an active role in defining the strategy of the Department of External Affairs for next year? Then join us on this amazing SWG!

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M e d i c a l E d u c a ti o n Ilayda UYAT, EMSA Medical Education Director 2011/2012 For medical students who are not only interested in medical science itself but also about how it is

delivered to students are very welcome in the Medical Education Sessions during the 22th EMSA General Assembly in Istanbul, Turkey. Medical Education Pillar topics will be divided in three sessions which are described in more details below:

Day 1 We will start with a short history of European Union which will constitute an introduction to the

Bologna Process. We will discuss about its effects on medical education, europeanwide. Day 2 In addition to the previously gained Bologna Process knowledge, on the second day of medical

education sessions, the time will come to talk about the initiative based on Bologna Process and its implementation within medical education, MEDINE2. Additionally detailed information will be provided about the European Medical Education Association: AMEE, its annual conference: AMEE Conference, inportance of student involvement and the ways of participation! The interest of EMSA members has been high with the AMEE Student TaskForce this year, thus as EMSA, we should aim for more… for a content-wise student participation in this “huge importance bearing” conference!

Day 3 This third day of Medical Education pillar sessions will be reserved for the colorful projects! :)

Teddy Bear Hospital, its handbook and website, Summer Schools and its list on the emsa website, World AIDS Day (WAD) and the CandleLight Memorial (CLM), Week of Medical Education (WofME) and its implementation and the future of Healthy ERASMUS Project will be discussed.

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M e d i c al S c ie n c e Day 1 This is the time to learn present our work. This session is a training for presentation skills. After

grouping into small teams, we will try to come up with new project ideas for medical science pillar and then learn to present it in an effective way. If we like your idea, you might become the coordinator of a new project of medical science pillar. In the last part, we will be discussing about a topic that has been spoken about for years: ‘’EXCHANGE’’

Day 2 In this session we will talk about a new topic named ‘’European Students’ Stem Cell Society: What

are the next steps? ‘’ to talk about how to actively participate in this project and what the promises are in this project for us. Also an idea of a joint project will be discussed : ‘ES-Stem Twinning Project’

Day 3 Today we will learn about the past of JEMSA, The JTP and discuss about becoming an editor in The

JTP and submitting manuscripts. If you want to become a part of this promising journal and have ideas to promote it, this session is just for you.

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1. Dormitory (This is where you stay) 2. Faculty of Medicine 3. Social Building (This is where you eat) 4. Rectorate Building 5. Faculty of Law 6. Fine Arts Building

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OPENING CEREM

ONY & GALA DINNER

Turkish Night (Boat Tour)

seminar I

coffee break

LC/NC Session + W

orkshop I

coffee break

pre-GA 1

pre-GA 2

LUNCH

BREAKFAST

coffee break

free time

seminar II

training I

workshop II

plenary I

plenary II

FREE NIGHT

coffee break

LUNCH

BREAKFAST

coffee break

LUNCHpillar session I

training II

free time

EU VILLAGE PARTY

coffee break

plenary III

plenary IV

BREAKFAST

coffee break

plenary V

plenary VI

Voting time

Voting Results + PARTY

LUNCH

pillar session II

coffee break

SWGs

BREAKFAST

coffee break

TM & PP & PF

free time

Closing Cerem

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LUNCHLC/NC Session

coffee break

workshop III

BREAKFAST

pillar session III

BREAKFAST

tbd / Istanbul Tour

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