50th St. Andrew's Day Symposium (teleconference) at SKMCH&RC:The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (RCPE) organized its 50th
St. Andrew's Day Symposium (teleconference) on Thursday & Friday,
December 2nd & 3rd, 2010. The theme was ‘Five decades of Medical
Progress’. Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
(SKMCH&RC) was one of the first hospitals in Pakistan to have this
telecasted live.
Attendance on both days was encouraging with
more than 100 participants both from with-in and more so from outside
SKMCH&RC who attended the symposium. The program covered Eight
Different Specialty Areas looking at key developments over the past 50
years, but still with the emphasis very much on current and emerging
clinical management issues. The sessions covered were Cardiovascular
Medicine, Gastroenterology, Genetics, Infectious Diseases, Neurology,
Palliative Care, Renal Medicine & Respiratory Medicine.
Highlights
were the Ballantyne Lecture on “Our genetic inheritance: a decade on
from sequencing the human genome” by Professor David Porteous while
Baroness Ilora Finlay, Professor of Palliative Care, Cardiff University,
delivered the Sir James Cameron Lecture on “Palliative care – 2020
vision”.
Audience actively participated in the Q&A sessions
with questions being emailed to the symposium organizers and replies
telecasted live by the panelists.
Event was accredited by UK
Federation of Royal Colleges of Physicians, CPD Scheme (CPD approved
activity code: 58033) while the Accreditation Review Committee (ARC) of
the American Academy of Continuing Medical Education (AACME) designated
this medical education activity for a maximum of 14.25 hours in the
Category 1 credit of the AACME Designation.
There was no fee for
attendance at the SKMCH venue but pre-registration was required
especially for outside Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital &
Research Centre participants (Aniqa Agha, Medical Education,
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It was an excellent opportunity to be able to
attend an event of International magnitude, with focus on key areas of
medicine which are also rapidly developing in Pakistan like Ethics in
Genetics and Palliative care, while sitting here. We hope this to be the
first of many such activities in future which we can view live and
avail updates in fields of interest.
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