On April 21th, the Opening ceremony of the 2nd Azerbaijan-German-Turkish Medical Congress, which is held with the support of German Medical Cooperation Society, will take place. After the visit of foreign guests, presidents of Congress and members of Parliament of Azerbaijan to the grave of the national leader Heydar Aliyev, the official opening of the event will take place in the “Monolit Plaza” Hotel. Besides Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Turkey to Azerbaijan – Alper Coskun, the presidents of the Congress – Prof. Dr. Gurbankhan Muslumov and Dr.med. Deniz Uyak, foreign guests – Prof. M. Gebel and Prof. A. Kuzu and several members of Parliament of Azerbaijan are expected to attend the ceremony.
The Congress will be held on 21-25 April 2016. Congress will be joined by professors invited from the university clinics of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Turkey and other European countries. Congress will take place at the “Monolit Plaza” Hotel. 3 level-workshops on Laparoscopic and general surgery, Endoscopy, Ultrasonography for physicians, residents and students, as well as the First aid workshops, which are valued with 24 CME (Continuing Medical Education) points for nurses, will take place during the event. It should be noted that workshops and certificates of last year’s Congress granted 21 CME points and gained international status for the first time in post-Soviet space. The workshops offer the simulators of the company Erler Zimmer – which are used in the most of the University hospitals in Germany. Thus, the techniques of closed heart massage and mouth-to-mouth respiration can be learned with the help pf these simulators. The participants will also have the chance to perform manipulations with the help of 3D Laparoscopic surgery set offered by the firma Esculap.
In addition, the 2. Congress of the Society for Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Surgeons will take place as well.
Also there will be a Student forum held, during which students and young physicians will have the chance to deliver short lectures on relevant topics of Surgery, Oncology, Radiology and Gastroenterology. By the decision of the jury the 2nd and 3rd places will be awarded with special prizes, 1st place winner will get a chance to spend 1 month a resident in hospital of Germany.
In addition, a Symposium with the participation of Deutsche Ärztekammer, German Hospital Groups and the delegation of the German non-governmental professional organizations will be held during the Student forum. Following wide range of issues will be discussed during the Symposium:
- Preparation courses for the Approbation, trial exams on the basis of German medical education programs and online lessons with the German specialists for those, who want to study and work in Germany in the future.
- Obtaining of Berufserlaubnis for the Azerbaijani students and doctors after a short-term residency;
- Arrangement of appointments to take Approbation exam for Azerbaijani
Thus, as the ministerpresident of Germany’s Rheinland-Pfalz land Malu Dreyer said in her congratulatory letter, written to the Congress organizational committee, the 2nd Azerbaijan-German-Turkish Medical Congress will make a great contribution in the field of sharing medical knowledge between the countries, thereby in identifying diseases and conditions for the protection of global health.
