AHCP Conference 16 – 20 AUGUST 2008

AHCP Conference 16 – 20 AUGUST 2008 Udo Schirmer

Risk Factor and Early Detection of Breast Cancer Arberesha pointed out the different risks of breast cancer as there are inter alia young and old age, missing knowledge, fear. The presentation also shows the rise of incidence which is a sign that civilisation's progress has to become of another quality. Not earnings but health be of priority for employers/ees.

Ultrasonography Dana Constantinescu Dana became aware of relations between gallbladder motility, gallstones, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and x-metabolic syndrome from her patients' histories. Only then she documented the relations by ultrasonography. First in mind, then in technics.

Scabies Travellers' Diarrhoea Telephone Communication Illness of Tourists returning from Kruger National Park Garth Brink Garth vividly demonstrated by a case report both the difficulties in diagnosing scabies and the dubiosity of evidence. The problems in consulting on preventing diarrhoea also were shown in a case report. We are curious how Kruger Park project will go. Good luck!

Mental Health Management of Depression COPD & Management of COPD Chuba Chigbo Chuba's very large compact complex from mental health in general to depression and smokers' COPD and from the description to the management of the diseases caused vivid discussions and gave us a lot of informations and impetus to think about for long after the meeting.

Community Based Training Ilse Hellemann Ilse well informed us about the state of art in student new training in Austrian general practice, not so much with tables, often inevitable, but in a narrative kind, well fit for such a subject. Also in Austria students like practical learning more than inevitable lectures.

EURACT European Defining The Spirit of Alma Ata Francesco Carelli Francesco acted as the lawyer of the human right on the complete health as it has been declared in Alma Ata and of the family doctor who is the guide thereto. He showed that EURACT warrants to GPs the right to do more than only repeat prescriptions.

Medical Education Evidence Based Practice Helicobacter Pylori Infections Comfort Osonnaya Comfort began at the beginning when training developing critical appraisal skills with us, necessary to find out the relevant literature from the rest. Without such skills there were no up-to-date knowledge because there wouldn't be the time to read all literature, the good and the useless.

Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Kingsley Osonnaya Kingsley pointed out the dilemmas on a „case report“ of a child who had to die because his parents refused blood transfusion. Even the Healthcare Law cannot take the burden from the doctor's soul when hanging between Human Rights and medical ethics.

Breast Feeding Kazimeras Vitkauskas Kazimeras appeared as the rescuer of what the human body and soul need in their first months of life. His activities are certainly more important for civilization than it may seem. Money and laziness may be stronger than nature and reasons now, but don't back off, some day mankind will feel the privation.

Developments in Virtual Reality Simulation for Laparoscopic Surgery Miles Kitching Miles demonstrated the way from the patient in bed-side education to the chip in the virtual reality simulator, and how minimally invasive surgery displaces specialists into other specialists' compet-ences; the radiologist will do what the internist had done etc. Who Where When?

Introduction to the JIARE and its member organizations Jatinder Bhamber Jatinder gave us a view of the structure of the Joint International Academies of Research and Education and the many member and linked organizations like IAES, JIRR, AHCP. Showing some names of poeple including his own there made JIARE less anonymous to the auditory.

Thanks to All Who made this Conference Possible

AHCP Conference 16 – 20 AUGUST 2008