Sarah Konopelska
General Instructor Course 2019
The GTP ETAT working group is expanding its course offer by inviting you to join the first General Instructor Course (GIC) in Hannover. Learn how to sensibly and effectively give lectures and teach colleagues by means of skills stations, simulation trainings and assessments.
- When? - 15.-17th March 2019
- Where? - Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, 30625 Hannover. Room: Building J06 Floor H0 R 4020
- Food: Snacks and lunch will be provided
- Social events on Friday and Saturday evening
- Course fee: 250 Euros
- Applications to Dr. Barbara Zimmer (email)
Accommodation suggestions:
- https://www.gaesteresidenz-pelikanviertel.de, with adjascent restaurant: http://www.12apostel-hannover.de/
- http://www.naturfreundehaus-hannover.de/
- https://www.gleisdreieck.org/preise
- https://www.hotel.de/de/ghotel-hotel---living/hotel-93086
- https://www.intercityhotel.com/hotels/alle-hotels/deutschland/hannover/intercityhotel-hannover or https://www.bednbudget.de/
Working group "Ultrasound"
About the working group
The ultrasound working group unites colleagues interested in ultrasound usage in ressource-limited settings.
Currently it is offering sonography trainings in partner hospitals abroad and creating training tools and concepts. Courses started running in 2017 on a yearly basis. Our sonography courses are practical, patient-oriented and focused on a mutual learning experience amongst colleagues from different working backgrounds. Course participants are registrars and specialists from various countries and their number is limited to 20. Half the group consists of doctors training in the country where the courses are taking place for local capacity building. The other half consists of doctors from elsewhere offering them a unique insight into local pathologies and challenges connected to sonography diagnostics in settings with limited ressources.
Further ideas on the topic of sonography in resource limited settings are welcome.
Information on course dates are to be found here.
Contact
General contact persons are:
Dr. Christian Schmidt (email)
Course contact and booking:
Eva-Maria Maintz (email)
Our member area offers a forum for information exchange.
Symposium "Global Trauma Care"
The German Society for Tropical Surgery (DTC) organizes a symposium on "Global Trauma Care" from 26th-28th October 2018 in Berlin.
"As you know, accidents are a high priority in children.
We would like to invite GTP members and interested to participate in the symposium. There will be plenty of opportunity for information exchange.
For more information see www.tropenchirurgie.org
Best regards
German Society for Tropical Surgery
GTP unterstützt drei Positionspapiere der ISSOP
In Anbetracht der aktuellen politischen und medizinpolitischen Ereignisse unterstützt die GTP ausdrücklich folgende drei Deklarationen bzw. Positionspapiere der International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) und möchte hiermit auf den Textinhalt aufmerksam machen.
Budapest Declaration on the Rights, Health and Well-Being of Children and Youth on the Move
Die GTP unterstützt diese 2017 bei der Jahrestagung der ISSOP verfasste Deklaration, welche in klaren Punkten zusammenfasst und dazu aufruft die Rechte und das Recht auf Gesundheits für migrierenden Kindern und Jugendlichen nicht von denen ortsansässiger Kinder und Jugendlichen zu unterscheiden und dafür Sorge zu tragen und verantwortlich zu sein, dass diese vulnerable Gruppe die bestmögliche Behandlung und Fürsorge erhält.
Response to US government's separation of families and violation of child and human rights
Die GTP unterstützt den Aufruf der ISSOP an die USA die Trennung von Kindern und Eltern an der mexikanischen Grenze zu unterbinden und beruft sich hier u. a. auch auf die o. g. Budapester Deklaration.
Statement on America’s Opposition to the International Resolution in Support of Breastmilk Feeding
Die GTP schließt sich der ISSOP in ihrem Positionspapier gegen das Vorgehen der USA die globalen Kollaborationen zur Förderung des Stillens zu unterbinden an. Wir zitieren hier einen Textauszug aus dem Positionspapier mit Kontaktdaten.
"The International Society of Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP), in concert with collaborating national and international societies of pediatrics (www.ISSOP.org), condemns in the most robust terms possible American officials’ attempts at the World Health Assembly to stop global collaboration to protect, promote and support breastmilk feeding. Breastmilk feeding is recognized as among the most effective health promoting measures to advance infant and child health. (https://www.issop.org/2008/02/01/essop-position-statement-2/)
In combination with the separation of children from their parents at the US border with Mexico (https://www.issop.org/2018/06/26/issop-response-us-governments-separation-families-violation-child-human-rights/), these policies represent a reprehensible global assault on the health and well-being of infants and children. We call on all public and private sector individuals and organizations to register their concerns with their governments and with the U.S. Government; and for the dismissal of US policy makers connected with these decisions.
We also call on all national and international pediatric organizations and stakeholders in infant health and well-being to review and renew their support for the International Code on Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes; as well as their policies related to receiving support from formula companies—that inevitably create serious conflicts of interest. (https://www.issop.org/2014/04/24/issop-position-statement-4/)."
Contact:
Jeffrey Goldhagen, M.D., Jeffrey.Goldhagen@jax.ufl.edu, 1.904.237.9475 (US)
Nicholas Spencer, M.D., N.J.Spencer@warwick.ac.uk, +44.7542.961640 (Europe)
ETAT+ training 2018
The concept ETAT
ETAT (Emergency Triage and Treatment) and ETAT+ are concepts for triage and first care of sick children, developed in countries with limited resources in Africa. They have a proven effect on mortality reduction and can be applied in health care institutions of all levels.
In many places, ETAT is the cornerstone of decision making at first contact with a patient, that does not necessarily have to be effected by medical personnel.
ETAT guidelines are specifically aligned to common problems in the paediatric basic emergency care of in institutions with limited resources. The guidelines identify children suffering from acute life threatening conditions in a structured and comprehensible manner and present simple yet clear guidelines for their medical care.
The course
The working group ETAT emerged within GTP on the initiative of three alumni of the Intensive Course on Tropical Paediatrics (TropPaed), who have experienced the clinical significance of ETAT on various missions abroad. They have been trained as tutors and have lead trainings abroad. We would now like to make this concept available by offering a course in Germany as well.
The first of such courses will be held from 13 to 15 Juli 2018 at Witten/Herdecke University. Primary target group are doctors and nurses preparing for a medical mission abroad. Potentially, medical students preparing for a mission of several months can also benefit from the course.
Please find detailed information including on how to apply in the course flyer. We are looking forwards to numerous applications and future feedback about the course.
We thank the working group ETAT for their engagement and wish them a successful course!
Kinderarzt/ärztin gesucht - Indien
Indien – West Bengalen – Bolpur
St. Mary’s Child and Mother Health Care Center
Dauer: 6-12 Wochen
Aufgaben
Versorgung stationärer Patienten; nach Bedarf Mitarbeit in der Ambulanz; Betreuung des Ernährungsprogramms; Begleitung und Supervision des präventiven Dorfprogramms mit Screening auf Tuberkulose, Mangelernährung und Schwangerschaftskomplikationen; Fortbildungen für das lokale Personal; Verlegungsmanagement von Notfallpatienten nach Kalkutta.
Zur Klinik
2011 von der deutschen Kinderärztin Monika Golembiewski gegründet; finanziert durch den gemeinnützigen Verein „Shining Eyes – medizinische Hilfe für Kinder und sozioökonomische Dorfentwicklung in Indien e.V.“
20 Kinderbetten + 20 Mütterbetten; Röntgen; Ultraschall; EEG; EKG; Labor; Physiotherapie
Schwerpunkte
Neurologische Erkrankungen; Tuberkulose; Mangelernährung inkl. Komplikationen
Vergütung
Kost und Logis sowie ein kleines, vom Verein übernommenes Gehalt.
Bewerbung
Per E-Mail mit Lebenslauf und Motivationsschreiben. Auslandserfahrung und tropenmedizinische Kenntnisse können hilfreich sein.
Kontakt
Monika Golembiewski (monika.golembiewski@gmx.de)
Clinical Partnership GPT-Malawi (2017-2019)
About the project
In a cooperation project with GIZ, funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the GTP, supported by the Forum for International Health (www.foring.org), was very successfully involved in the further specialist training of paediatricians in Malawi from 2017 to 2019. The postgraduate programme at the College of Medicine in Malawi's capital Lilongwe is supported by several international partners and also includes the training of so-called "clinical officers" for further education in paediatrics. The project consisted of the following components for the GTP:
- Up to 6 teaching visits of German paediatricians per year in Malawi
- Implementation of community-based teaching on site
- Supervision of research projects leading to publications
- Sending volunteer doctors, nurses and midwives to teach on site
Collaboration opportunities
For components 1, 2 and 4, GTP together with BMZ sought paediatric colleagues with teaching experience or work experience in resource-poor countries who were willing to teach in Malawi for a limited period of time (from 2 weeks duration) and thus support our programme as trainers or lecturers.
Further information on the project can be obtained either from the former programme manager in Germany Dr Carsten Krüger (email) or from the then project manager on site Dr Andreas Schultz (email).
Prerequisites for participation in module 1 and 2 were:
- Specialist in paediatrics, preferably with additional qualification
- Demonstrable experience of teaching in postgraduate programmes
- Work experience or teaching experience in sub-Saharan Africa/low-resource setting
Prerequisites for participation in module 4 were:
- Completed professional training in the aforementioned disciplines
- Experience in teaching Bachelor's and Master's programmes
- Intercultural competence and team spirit
All expenses related to the preparation and implementation of the teaching components in Germany and Malawi were covered, but a salary could not be paid. We thank the colleagues who helped us to accompany young, enthusiastic Malawian specialists in their training as well as to expand our further training programme in paediatrics for "Clinical Officers".
Subspecialties in demand
- Emergency medicine
- Intensive care
- Quality management
- Neonatology
- Cardiology
- Infectious diseases
- Gastroenterology
- Allergology
- Pulmonology
- Endokrinology
- Nephrology
- Paediatric neurology
- Onkology and palliative care
Contact
Dr. Carsten Krüger (email) - former programme coordinator in Germany
Dr. Andreas Schultz (email) - former project coordinator on site