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Working Group "Young GTP"
Founded by motivated GTP-members, who aim at strengthening the connections between students and the GTP.
Goals of the working group
- Connecting students and young doctors interested in tropical pediatrics and international child health
- Exchange platform for projects related to tropical pediatrics, for students and young doctors, who have not yet completed their specialty training.
- Exchange on options for further education or specialisation in the fields of tropical medicine and tropical pediatrics during and after medschool
Current projects
- Annual students-workshop during the GTP annual conference: this workshop is ideally organized „by students for students“ or at least with the help of students. So far the workshops were mainly a forum for discussions concerning different topics of tropical medicine and international child health. Future plans also involve a more practical focus with hands-on workshops on topics relevant for tropical pediatrics.
- Continuation of the Couchsurfing Program: local students provide free housing for other students attending the the GTP annual conference to keep travel expenses for students visiting from other cities or countries as low as possible.
Planned projects:
- Creating an online-platform to connect interested students and young doctors and give them a forum for exchanging information on interesting projects, research and further education in the field of tropical pediatrics and international child health.
Contact and participation
The working group is looking for motivated participators. If you are interested or have any questions please contact on of the following members of the organizing team:
Susanna van Eys - Email
Karolina de Souza Friedrichsen - Email
Jana Suero Molina - Email
Hanna Zastrow - Email
Carmen Herr - Email
Lea Decker - Email
Philipp Koliopoulos - Email
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.
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)
GTP receives humanitarian Else-Kröner-Fresenius award 2016
During a festive evening at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) October 20, 2016 in Berlin, the German Society of Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health (GTP) e.V. was awarded the Else-Kröner-Fresenius award for medical development cooperation 2016 endowed with 100.000 Euros.
The Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation (EKFS) had chosen the GTP project „Paediatric specialty training in Tanzania: sustainable reduction of child mortality through qualified health personnel“ from 160 proposals and honoured it with this award for its examplary conception, its sustainability and its relevance for the health care of children and adolescents in Tanzania.
The representatives of the awardee were greeted by the parliamentary undersecretary at BMZ, Thomas Silberhorn MdB. The laudation was held by Dr Auma Obama, the former US president's sister.
Parliamentary undersecretary at BMZ, Thomas Silberhorn MdB
Dr Carsten Krüger, Dr Antke Züchner, Dr Auma Obama, Dr Christian Schmidt (from left)
photo copyright: Thomas Köhler / photothek / EFKS
TropPaed 2019 - 10th Intensive Course on Tropical Paediatrics and Global Child Health
This 5-day-course on Tropical Paediatrics and Global Child health was initiated in 2010 and has ever since taken place and been developed further on a yearly basis. It addresses the most important medical, intercultural, political and infrastructural aspects of Global Child Health.
Datum
28.01. – 01.02.2019
27.01. Anreise
Ort
Schloss Rauischholzhausen
(Bei Gießen)
Info
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 50
Kurssprache: Englisch
Welcome
We cordially invite you to participate in our 10th Intensive Course on Tropical Paediatrics and Global Child Health.
Once again we will provide you with a diverse course schedule containing lectures, practical workshops and clinical seminar. Furthermore there will be enough time for professional international exchange of plans and experiences.
As time goes by we will provide you with further details about the schedule and lecturers. Arrival will be possible from Sunday 5pm onwards. There will be dinner and access to your rooms. A good first opportunity to explore the castle grounds and extablish contacts. The official course program starts on Monday 8:30 am and ends on Friday 2 pm.
Provisional Schedule
Here you can find the preliminary topics of the course. There will be an evening program and case presentations from our international guests on some of the days.
- Registration and introduction.
- Introduction to Global Child Health
- WHO programs and international collaborations
- International communication
- Challenges in setting up a paediatric department
- Contributions from other specialties (i.e. surgery, dermatology, oncology, …)
- Psychosocial apects of paediatrics
- Introduction into the caring for a critically ill child in a resource-limited setting
- Practical workshops regarding “the critically ill child” – i.e. malaria, neurological or respiratory emergencies, malnutrition, shock and ETAT
- Scientific research and data collection
- Gynaecology and Obstetrics
- Neonatology
- Practical workshops regarding interventions in a resource-limited setting (i.e. invasive techniques, KMC, bCPAP, hospital and community neonatology)
- Introduction into the big topics HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and tuberculosis
- With whom and how to work abroad
- Practical workshops about HIV/AIDS, malnutrition and tuberculosis
- Contributions from other specialties (i.e. surgery, dermatology, oncology, family medicine, …)
- Health systems in unstable countries
- The role of the foreign paediatrician abroad
- Laboratories in resource-limited settings
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Updates on tropical medicine
- Feedback, test and departure
Fee and application
The course fee includes participation in the course, course materials, accommodation, food and coffee breaks for 5 days.
Not included are alcoholic beverages and drinks outside the official mealtimes as well as transportation.
Regulärer Preis Nichtmitglieder
ab 1.12.18Regulärer Preis Nichtmitglieder
Early Bird bis 30.11.18Mitglieder-Preis GTP/ESPID
ab 1.12.18Mitglieder-Preis GTP/ESPID
Early Bird bis 30.11.18Course venue
The course is taking place at Schloß Rauischholzhausen which is the conference center of the University of Gießen. We are happy to be able to host our course at this historical and beautiful site. It offers learning space and accommodation combined in the same building and due to the affiliation with the University the prices are fair. A good variety of seminar rooms compliment our course concept of combining lectures with small group activities. Moving our course to this location in 2016 has proven to have been worthwhile.
Public Relations working group
This group is working to increase visibility of GTPs actictivities and serves as your contact for inquiries on contributions of GTP members on external events such as conferences. In case you require any information please contact
tariverdian@tropenpaediatrie.de
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)
Report: Annual conference of the International Society for Social Pediatrics and Child Health (ISSOP) in Budapest
The conference was held from 28. - 30.09.2017 in Budapest and summarized by our board member Nadja Tarivedian:
This year's theme was „Children on the Move“.
Apart from reports by non- and governmental organisations from Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Lebanon, Austria, Slovenia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Portugal, Denmark, Japan, Israel, Pakistan, India, Australia and Germany these were the main topics of the conference:
- Concept of culture, xenophobia and discrimination in paediatrics (and how to deal with it)
- Child rights based approach - advocacy for refugee children / underage migrants
- Violence against children, child protection
It was one of the aims of the conference to develop a declaration on health and well-being of children „on the move“ that will be puclished soon.
ISSOP particularly demands equal standard of health care for all children, independent of their "status“, and disapproves of all currently available methods of age determination of children. Alternatives such as psychosocial age determination (Great Britain) were discussed. The European Academy of Paediatrics is developing ea guideline for first contact (in primary care) with migrant children in Europe.
Interesting publications of ISSOP are available on its website zu finden, e.g. the following position statements:
- Migrant child health (published in Child: care, health and development)
- Social determinants and child health (currently being reveised)
Furhter intersting links:
Master programme of the University of Pecs on migrant health (in cooperation with the University of Greifswald and others)
Annual conference of Political Child Medicine in Salzburg 10.11.17 with a focus on health care of refugee children
Next Annual conference of ISSOP 2018 in Bonn – including sessions on refugee children.