Great GEM section meeting during EUSEM in Prague! With guests from the USA and Canada!
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#geriEM special interest group meeting during EuGMS, Krakow
During the EuGMS conference in Krakow, Poland, the special interest group had an inspiring meeting. Lots of opportunities were discussed and new collaborations. Also the European Research Agenda on #geriEM was presented and the ongoing initiative an guidelines.
Make sure to be there (again) next year in Athens, October 7-9th 2020!
EuGMS: acute session and GEM Sig meeting in Krakow, Poland, September 26th
For those who visit the EuGMS conference in Krakow Poland, please mark you diary:
Acute session
Thursday Sept 26th from 10.30 to 12.00
Including presentation of European research agenda on EuGMS by the Sig
meeting room 7 (E2)
GEM Sig meeting
Thursday Sept 26th from 12.00 to 13.30 (right after Acute session 7, just follow us!)
EuGMS meeting room 2 (E2)
Pre-course on #geriEM during EUSEM in Prague, October 13th 2019
For the second time, during the annual conference of EUSEM, there will be a pre-course on Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Organised in collaboration with the Eureopean Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS).
For more information, go here: https://www.eusemcongress.org/en/programme/precourses/geriatric
Weekend on European Guidelines on #geriEM
During the weekend of June 8th-9th 2019 representatives of the European Task Force on #geriEM met in Antwerp, Belgium to initiate a new #geriEMEurope endevour. A European guideline on Geriatric Emergency Medicine was drafted and planned.
Left to right: Jacinta Lucke (the Netherlands), Aine Mitchell (Ireland), Defne Zerrin Dundar (Turkey), Anna Ramovs (Slovenia), Rosa McNamera (Ireland), Arjun Thaur (UK), Pieter Heeren (Belgium), Christian Nickel (Switzerland), Laura Blomaard (The Netherlands), Mehmet Karamercan (Turkey), Bas de Groot (The Netherlands), Simon Conroy (UK), Simon Mooijaart (the Netherlands), Terrenc (Hong-Kong)
Our mission and goals: now online!
As European Task Force for Geriatric Emergency Medicine, we have laid down a mission and goal in a statement. The mission and goals were formally approved by both the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) and the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM). A clear sign of one of our basic principles: #geriEM is about collaboration and multi-disciplinarity!
To read the editorial in EJEM: click this link
To view the statement: click this link
Well attended meeting of #geriEM SIG @ EuGMS in Berlin!
Coming up: #geriEM activities during EuGMS 2018 – Berlin
During the annual conference of the European Geriatric Medicine Society (EuGMS) in Berling (Octobter 10-12th 2018) there will be interesting #geriEM activities:
Friday October 12th 2018
10:30 hrs: Symposium “Geriatric Emergency Medicine: Old Patients in the New World”
Location: Room 4
- Dr. Faisal Aijaz, Leisester, UK. “Embedding frailty in ED and its impact on patient care.”
- Dr. Yvonne Schoon, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. “Measuring Patient Reported Outcome is feasible in Older Patients attending the Emergency Department.”
- Dr. Els Devriendt, Leuven, Belgium. “The URGENT CARE model and unplanned ED revisits”
12:00 hrs: Meeting of the #geriEM special interest group
Location: Room B95
Everybody who is interested in #geriEM is welcome to join!
Well attended #geriEM section meeting @EUSEM in Glasgow 2018
Pre-course on #geriEM @ EUSEM Glasgow 2018
During EUSEM 2018 a precourse on Geriatric Emergency Medicine was held, with great evaluations. The precourse consisted of interactive
table top discussions and scenario’s and was fully booked. The faculty was an internation team of geriatricians, emergency physicians and physician assistants from three countries. Topics included polypharmacy, end-of-life care and delirium. Because of this success, during EUSEM 2019 in Poland the Geriatric Emergency Medicine will be organized again! Keep track of the website for further information.
